[HDR-photo] Starting out...

[Royce Howland]

Ferrell McCollough wrote:
> [...] I'm now wondering if the 
> uncropped pano's with outside transparency could be a problem.

It's possible. To be honest I've never used the uncropped, layered pano 
output. I get the stitch right, as much as possible, in the stitcher. If 
the stitcher doesn't permit me to do that on a regular basis, I don't 
use it. Patching stuff in Photoshop is time consuming and I want to 
spend most of my PS time doing "positive" work to present the final form 
of the image, not cleaning up the glitches of other software. :)

> Your images are spectacular, Canada is beautiful. Your a trooper to be 
> in the cold shooting, brrrr......

Thanks. Not a fan of winter? Shocking! :)

> I will also be looking into Panorama Factory,

I like the tool, it produces very smooth tonality in blend regions, has 
good detail, and has a very useful tile-based fine tuning mechanism as 
opposed simply to the control point editor used by most stitchers.

But it does have its limitations also. In particular, it can only 
directly handle single-row pano's, and doesn't directly support 
stitching multiple projects with the same set of control points. You can 
fake it into doing both of these things with some goofing around, and so 
far it has been worth my time to do so for the results I can get.

I do need to save some workflow time of my big HDR pano's, though, which 
is why I'm looking at Autopano Pro...

Royce Howland