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you shouldn't be having these issues if your tripod head is set up  
right, also try in the advanced > optimizer > advanced, check  
horizontal and vertical shift, this had me pulling my hair out after  
switching from a borrowed 10.5 to a purchased 10.5.

you can easily follow this workflow, if tripod is set up right you  
should have nearly perfect stitches every time

hit the auto align about 3-4 times,
optimize as above
arbitrarily delete any control points ? 2
go back and add GOOD cp's where there isn't a good spread from top to  
bottom
optimize again

use enblend if you have a mac
use smartblend if you have a pc
try ptgui blending if those don't work

or batch output all blending methods so you don't have to go back and  
re-ptgui things

mmm
http://pdxvr.com



On 14 Nov 2008, at 17:06, Blake Michaelson wrote:

>
> 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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