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Sender:Blake Michaelson
Date/Time:15-Nov-2008 02:06:40 +0100
Subject:Re: Awful time stitching square suspended ceiling tiles :-(

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Perhaps the semi-auto method of adding control points:

http://tinyurl.com/5cgjfg

Control Points Tab - Select image 0 in left pane, image 1 in right pane,
select Control Points/Generate Control Points for image 0 and 1
(Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G on PC)... it will automagically create control points for
just that image pair.  Now select image 1 and 2 and do the same, etc. etc.
etc.

I had pretty good success with this method while trying to stitch a
difficult pano recently... it was because there weren't enough UNIQUE points
in a common series of images - perhaps you're running into the same issue
with the ceiling tiles?

Good luck!


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Andrew <#removed#>wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> Not had much fun with my latest project. Just took quite a few 360
> shots within a University and many of the ceilings were made from
> those square suspended ceiling tiles. I thought this would aid in the
> stitching process but has had the opposite effect and is a total pain
> in the rear.
>
> D80, 10.5mm, NN3, wireless remote, 6 shots around and one up (where
> there is the most overlap). After the first days shooting I stitched a
> few in PTGui to check how it was going and noticed the alignment
> issues with the tiles. Decided to take 3 shots up rotating 120 degrees
> each so I would have more to play with in photoshop with the masks.
> Really didn't seem to help that much. The past week I've been using
> the lasso and clone tool in PS on at least 45 panoramas and don't ever
> wish to do it again no matter how much I get paid.
>
> I can't seem to think what I could have been doing wrong as the NN3
> settings are straight forward and I was using a remote. I'm always
> really careful while rotating the NN3.
>
> In a hope that it wasn't poor photography skills which seems a little
> odd anyway on such a large number of 360 shots I'm thinking of getting
> either the 360Precision Absolute or 360Precision Adjuste and perhaps a
> high end panohead will clear up the alignment issues in the future? Of
> course the price jump is massive (plus Canada import tax) but if it
> prevents me from all that photoshop work it's got to be worth it.
>
> Any happy users of either 360Precision heads? Would love to hear from you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
>  
>


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