Thu 17 Aug 2006
I am starting a series of panoramic shots of New York city, and I am going to start with this short article on creating panoramic images in linux..
I have a digital camera and have been too lazy and have better things to spend my money on than memory sticks, so.. I can take six photo`s with it, so I am always trying to figure out what to photograph so that I am not wasting shots, would it not be better to just have one GOOD photo than a series of so-so ones.. I started looking into panoramic images.
Now, I run gentoo linux, so clearly the imaging tools are available I just needed to research it.
There is a half-baked tutorial/infopage at the gentoo wiki on the tools to use. Though, most of those tools you really don`t need, the things you do NEED are Autopano tools, Hugin and finally enblend which will do softblending over your images so that there are no harsh lines from color shifts due to light differences and glare.
With those tools, it is pretty easy to follow this tutorial on how to use the tools. Though, I prefer to use enblend internally from Hugin, so don`t follow that tutorial to the letter.
I had taken some photos from a rooftop here in Manhattan, and sat down to work on this. The following image took me about ten minutes, using tools I have never touched, to make the following.
from camera to this image output as a jpeg in ten minutes!
Six images, quick fast and turned into a panorama..
There is one smudgy spot, which is just because I messed up the photo, but otherwise, going from images to panoramic that fast is awesome.
I started a photo gallery here on the right and will try to add panoramics to them here and there as I take my camera out. I doubt my callphone camera takes decent enough photo`s for doing this, but I will try that also.