stalwart
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Location: Barton under Needwood, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 28 May 2008 at 16:08 GMT
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hi all
been busy on holiday doing my first lot of "out & about" panos, here: tinyurl.com/55rxxj with Canon 400D, Sigma 8mm f3.5, NN3.
However, one set (5 round, zenith @ 60 degrees and hand-held nadir) is refusing to stitch in PTGui Pro. I've uploaded zipped, low-rez JPEG's (900kb) here: tinyurl.com/672lkx if someone could shed some light on it....
My initial attempts were to try to stitch, create a template, import images into CS2 & use alpha channels to remove people movement, and re-import into PTGui & use template to stitch. But no joy......
Any advice welcome.....
cheers
Stu
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iam360Texas
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 28 May 2008 at 17:02 GMT
updated: 28 May 2008 at 17:04 GMT
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Ok I used ptgui 7.8 and only the 5 images on the horizon. 5 is an odd number. Might consider using only 4 around. Then on the 4th click stop rotate your camera UP +90 and take zenith. Below is stitched image 700w x 350h.
Personally I ould not take a nadir or zenith. Just cube the image and do some photoshop fixing for top and bottom.
Notice someones head moved and someone got up and departed.. so got 1/2 person in chair.
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stalwart
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 28 May 2008 at 17:19 GMT
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I've just re-tried with those JPEG images (using only the 5-around shots, not stitching in the zenith) and still won't stitch. Could you post up your PTGui '.pts' work through so I can see where I'm obviously going wrong. BTW, it's me half in shot - my first attempt was to alpha-channel the empty portion of the chair out - works perfectly. Just gotta get 'em to stitch together tho'!
cheers
Stu
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stalwart
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 28 May 2008 at 17:26 GMT
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it won't join up - like this:
[img][/img]
here's me thinking I'd prety much nailed the basics!
Stu
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iam360Texas
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stalwart
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 28 May 2008 at 18:14 GMT
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thanks - but only comes out as garbled HTML page at my end.....
Stu
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iam360Texas
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 28 May 2008 at 18:52 GMT
updated: 28 May 2008 at 18:53 GMT
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ok lets try this .zip
360texas.com/images/stu5.zip
I saved the file as a .pts then zipped it
and yes looked like machine code. I thought it used to save as normal text file.
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Smooth
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 28 May 2008 at 19:15 GMT
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Right mouse click "Save File As" or "Save Target As"
Regards, Smooth 
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John Houghton
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 28 May 2008 at 19:25 GMT
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Here's my project file and stitched panorama (including zenith and nadir with viewpoint feature):
www.johnhpanos.com/pano7.zip
NB. The original nadir was twice the size and rotated 90 deg. I added alpha channel masks to aid the merging.
John
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stalwart
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 29 May 2008 at 11:21 GMT
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cheers all - got there in the end. With a bit of alpha-channel work in CS2, the result is here: tinyurl.com/5vnuml
Stu
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gus
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Re: problem stitching with PTGui
Posted: 29 May 2008 at 13:26 GMT
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Have you figured out why it didnt stitch in the first place? Someone out there might learn from your mistake 
gus
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