Hey, Thomas and Bruno!
On 7/29/22 09:17, Bruno Postle wrote:
Thomas has made some changes to the Assistant tab in the Fast Preview
that I hope are a big improvement.
The Assistant is the first thing that new users see, it has a simplified
1. 2. 3. workflow that seems to work for most people. Though it has some
quite scary empty fields for entering lens details that are usually not
needed for normal photos.
Now it is just three big simple buttons: Load images... Align... and
Create panorama...
Screenshot 1.jpg
You can click the three buttons in-turn to stitch a panorama as before,
and I hope it is less scary.
But if you notice now they are 'split buttons', where if you explore the
little drop-down arrows there are some options, different ways of using
the buttons.
The first lets you declare the lens type of your photos (if it can't be
detected):
Screenshot 2.jpg
Hmm. It seems complicated for the Assistant, which I think of as the
"beginners" tool. Would a beginner even know what the different lens
types mean?
The second lets you run different alignment strategies. This
functionality has existed for a long time, but hasn't been so easy to
find, each one of these 'strategies' is an 'assistant' script, you can
create your own custom scripts and they will appear here:
Screenshot 3.jpg
I like the wording of the options on the dropdown. They make functional
sense - user knows they have scanned images or have a dual-lens camera.
Although why are there two "Scanned images" entries - one plain, one
with TrXYZ? Would a beginner know what the difference is?
The third split menu gives various ways of stitching the final panorama.
These are all 'executor' scripts that were previously hard to find, you
can create your own and they will appear here:
Screenshot 4.jpg
This dropdown list definitely drops out of the beginner category!
What does the "Zero-noise output" do?
So I hope this is a major improvement, a lot of the frequently asked
questions are about workflows that have long been available in these
'assistant' and 'executor' scripts, and now they should be discoverable.
Any comments? The graphics on the buttons themselves are simple
numbers, are they just right or could they be more informative?
I think they're quite clear. Their graphic treatment and arrangement
tell me they're steps in a sequential process.
Does hovering over a number/button have a tooltip that explains things?
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Bruno
Thanks for the design changes. I rarely use the Assistant at all, but I
think it would make Hugin easier for new or casual users.
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A list of frequently asked questions is available at:
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