[Feature request] Show overlap in Masks tab

[ChameleonScales]

When adding masks, we have to make sure not to hide part of a photo that is not visible in any other photo. The way I currently do it is I open the GL view and de-activate and re-activate photos to see the overlapping areas.

If we could display the overlapping parts directly in the Masks tab like in the image below, this would make masking easier, as we would only need to make sure to keep our mask inside the overlapping parts:

[Carlos Eduardo G. Carvalho (Cartola)]

Hi, if you hit Ctrl while moving the mouse on the fast panorama preview window it will show it in a way that I think can solve your problem:

Bests.

Carlos E G Carvalho (Cartola)
http://cartola.org/360
http://www.panoforum.com.br/

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[ChameleonScales]

Thanks, that's a neat feature! That said it still has its limitations:

- it's still in a different window so we have to switch back and forth while we draw

- we have to find the corresponding photo, which can take a while on large panoramas with many photos

- if the image is hidden beneath others, I assume you'd have to disable some photos and it gets even more tricky so properly see the overlap

If that same feature were added to the Masks tab but limited to the photos overlapping with the selected one, we could see where we're allowed or not allowed to mask right under the polyline we're drawing.

Does that seem feasible to implement?

[David W. Jones]

How about making the photo images semitransparent, so images could be seen through the others?

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[ChameleonScales]

Hey that's an even better idea! This way if, say, a walking person moves a bit between 2 photos we can make sure that our mask doesn't reveal the "duplicate" person from the other photo and vice-versa when we mask the other photo.

[ChameleonScales]

I was not very clear. I meant if a person appears twice in photos but at different places (I didn't mean if the photograph walks between 2 photos of course)