#HUGIN IMAGE STACKING MANUAL#
There have been many times I've fed my fisheye 360x180 images into Hugin and gotten nonsense and then had to manually position images and define control points to fix things, while feeding the same images into PTGui haven't required any manual fixes at all. I'd rephrase that as Hugin's not at all difficult until you try and go off the default stitching path to do something more complex or off-label.
It is an excellent and powerful program, not at all difficult - unless you try focus stacking. BTW, I just googled, and it looks like ICE supports 16-bit.įor what it's worth, I use Hugin, and so far I have done every Pano worth doing (for me) with it. If you are a UNIX/Linux command line geek, though, Hugin isn't nearly as unnatural as it would feel to someone coming from, say, ICE, and just wanting a completely automated stitcher. Which is why I use the Lr/Enfuse plugin and mess about with sliders instead if all I want to do is run enfuse.
#HUGIN IMAGE STACKING HOW TO#
But to change the weighting to be all contrast, and none towards exposure or saturation means knowing how to read a man page, and then typing -wExposure=0 -wSaturation=0 -wContrast=1 into the text box for enfuse options in Hugin. Weighting more heavily for contrast (i.e., focus) gets you focus stacking. Weighting more heavily for exposure/saturation gets you exposure fusing. The selection is done on three criteria: exposure, contrast, and saturation. What enfuse does is it selects individual pixels from member images in a stack to create a final image. But if you want to use enfuse to focus stack instead of exposure fuse, then you'll have to change the three main selection criteria.
The default settings for this will work pretty well, and you won't have to dig any further into the interface. Hugin has become a very handy front end for any number of command-line utilities for graphics processing, so things like entering command-line options into text boxes is part of the way Hugin can work, depending on the task you want to accomplish.įor example, you can use the enfuse open source command line tool via Hugin to do exposure fusing. And some settings in the interface are going to be abstruse or cryptic, and may require a little extra study to understand.
The last major release had a pretty big change in how the UI is presented, so older tutorials are gonna be a little sticky to get through. The thing to keep in mind with Hugin is that because it's an open source package, it's constantly evolving at a relatively rapid pace. Hugin's masking feature is more annoying to use, and so far, Hugin doesn't have viewpoint optimization (although I bet they're working on it), and as open source they don't do licensed file formats any more. The reasons I ended up shelling out the bucks for PTGui were a much better masking tool (saves me hours of Photoshop dinking), viewpoint optimization ( priceless for nadir patching), and the ability to output layered.
#HUGIN IMAGE STACKING FULL#
I stitch 360x180s, and most of the packages others rely on (ICE, PS's Photomerge) just won't cut it when you're doing full spherical view panos. But if the pricetag attracts you, and you can suss out the interface, then Hugin is the next best thing.