Panorama Photography with Hugin

• Rusty Trombone

  Member

  August 23, 2009 at 1:28 pm

  Hey All,
  I got my new Manfrotto 303sph pano head and I have been trying out different software packages for stitching and creating VR’s. I just wonder if there are any people here who have tried “Hugin”.
  Hugin is opensource, so like Firefox and openoffice it is built on a solid platform, and it runs on Linux, Mac, Solaris and Windows.

  It is an incredible piece of software with a very friendly community and i have seen samples of 360 panos made with this software and there are some incredible results, you can see the samples on the site.

  http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

  I am new to this site and I have extensive experience with opensource Graphical Packages and maybe I can help if anyone needs advice on the technical aspects of the following programs:

  The Gimp
  Scribus
  Inkscape
  and of course Hugin.

  These packages are of course free of charge.

  Gary
  wirepic

  Participant

  August 24, 2009 at 9:26 am

  Hi Gary,

  I’ve used hugin myself and found it very good. I used it to stitch this shot vertically using 4 photos. It does take a bit of getting used to and sometimes you can get weird results. There are some good tutorials here. I tried out the tutorial for correcting perspective but was less successful than creating panoramas.

  I also use the Gimp for all of my post processing. I find that any tips or tutorials for using Photoshop can usually repeated in Gimp quite easily. There are some good tutorials here. And there are also a number of scripts that can be integrated readily. Try these here.

  Any specific questions you can PM me directly.
  Rusty Trombone

  Member

  August 24, 2009 at 4:16 pm

  Cheers Fergus,
  That pano photo is outstanding, I’m kinda new to panoramic photography and I’m determined to see it through with Hugin, I use the GIMP for all my post processing also, I would be ashamed to show anything that I have done so far, need to get my self sorted out with some fast primes.

  Cheers for the links, Would be nice to see a section dedicated to opensource and to panoramic’s

  Gary
  studio27

  Member

  January 3, 2010 at 1:42 am

  wow, lovely image indeed. thanks for the heads up Gary. i’ve been using autopano pro for a while but i’ll definitely give hugin a try. cheers!
  bigalguitarpicker

  Participant

  January 3, 2010 at 10:18 am

  Microsoft Ice is a useful free download. I do all my panoramics using Serif PanoramaPlus 3. I think it costs about £30, though I got it for £10 as a loyalty discount price as I have bought other Serif software.Here’s a link to an HDR Pano I made recently in Hillsborough church, 108 frames in total. HDR processed in Photomatix and stitched in PanoramaPlus 3.