I am commenting on your statement: But this time I thought I'd use the original jpegs instead of the pngs. I had gone into Photoshop and created the pngs thinking that would be better.
If I understand what you did, and I might not, you took a jpg generated by the camera and processed it to a png in Photoshop because the jpg is lossy. That will not improve the image. What was lost by the jpg is gone, converting it just steps on the quality again. If you got the jpg from a raw image from the camera, then starting with the raw image to generate a lossless version would improve quality, but possibly at the cost of a larger file size. On Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 5:43:07 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > Why are you redoing it? What exactly are the points you need to improve? > > > Le 31/07/2024 à 03:51, Samuel Rhoads a écrit : > > Ok. It's not really finished. The resulting panorama is not > satisfactory. Probably that's why no one commented; didn't want to > criticize. > > Anyway I decided to start all over again after all. > > But this time I thought I'd use the original jpegs instead of the pngs. I > had gone into Photoshop and created the pngs thinking that would be > better. But I now think when I did that, I changed the file size and ended > up with much worse resolution than the jpgs even though jpeg is a lossy > format. Tell me what you think of that, please. > > So I started Hugin, chose File -> New, and loaded the 48 jpgs. Then i > worked on control points. I selected the images two at a time, choosing > images that obviously had overlaps, like 0_1.JPG and 30_1.JPG; 0_1.JPG and > 330_1.JPG; 0_1.JPG and 0_2.jpg, etc. (From now on I'll leave off the .JPG) > > I then opened 0_1 in both the left and right side and tried to add > horizontal and vertical CPs. After a lot of time, and eventually selecting > eight images at a time rather than just two, I had several thousand CPs. I > noticed that there was no Optimizer tab. Didn't know where it had gone. > > Anyway, when I finally tried to use the stitcher, I got some strange error > messages that I didn't understand. Bottom line, no panorama resulted. > > So I decided to JUST create a panorama with the top row of images: 0_1, > 30_1, 60_1, 90_1, ... 330_1. That wouldn't get me the panorama that I > needed for SkySafari, but maybe I'd figure out what I was doing wrong. > That failed too. For reasons that I do not understand when I tried to > create CPs for 120_1 and 150_1, Hugin said it couldn't find any. So I went > in and manually found, and created several. > > This is getting too long. I'm afraid no one will reaqd this and respond, > so let me cut to the chase. > > I am attaching the error log file, Top Level_3.log. Maybe someone can > tell me what I did wrong. > > I am also attaching (hopefully in a manner Claudio recommended) those 12 > JPG files. If someone (Claudio?) is willing to try to create a panorama > with those 12 files and tell me what happens, I'll appreciate it. > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 8:12 PM Samuel Rhoads <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ok. I "finished" the panorama. There's a lot I could say, but since >> it's "finished", I'll just attach it. >> > > 0_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/11fnQ2lkKjkUHlh__uGhZJgFt_KVSUCHc/view?usp=drive_web> > 30_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/18C2pRazNtK1D89tnttl0TUngECH7Lf0e/view?usp=drive_web> > 60_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/14aKWkGUmFm95yvLe_vNS9wz0bxFvbFff/view?usp=drive_web> > 90_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lO6zJJ52O_b8UveBQd5Q7HnWy-7_YJxC/view?usp=drive_web> > 120_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yuyEX1M9dpSSyh82a9PRhf8V3oI_2aXu/view?usp=drive_web> > 150_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sLQBWt3IbtOYPNQfUyER-gcY3iCZMuP9/view?usp=drive_web> > 180_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SlV4UtwSDt5aFW9IthPSt9uPZk6XpTca/view?usp=drive_web> > 210_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/14EWAuoJNaxOWCc3OXjtFQZ9D0DI2lZNi/view?usp=drive_web> > 240_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WltNuAaf14xmFgRRiH732__QWyxjrwku/view?usp=drive_web> > 270_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/11nZEIZp0BsSh_kbvk60khd6rKlCWKmW0/view?usp=drive_web> > 300_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z5hAQGUJLUMUFQm-26gFXlJPasVFmZp6/view?usp=drive_web> > 330_1.JPG > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p5rV1s4qWq6e8ZuOqE7otIMESqpE70ng/view?usp=drive_web> > > > > -- > A list of frequently asked questions is available at: > http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/CALPc9XfTEwf4g1Us%3D2nOnuPYxV7D4c31KxRuU5fFm8YDf2B7jw%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/CALPc9XfTEwf4g1Us%3D2nOnuPYxV7D4c31KxRuU5fFm8YDf2B7jw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. 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