New feature: Consider to fill the empty space not only with blur (or black)

[Stephan Weber]

Hi,

it would be very nice that the tool makes a filling with also using the structure of the area nearby, so that e.g. an area would filled e.g. with leaves and not only with a blurred green.

Maybe you need a little tweaking parameter with slider to adjust this a bit. You should do no simple pattern duplication but the new fill may need some random part to not become so easily visible as artificial.

Bye Stephan

[Erik Krause]

Am 11.06.25 um 14:27 schrieb Stephan Weber:

> it would be very nice that the tool makes a filling with also using the
> structure of the area nearby, so that e.g. an area would filled e.g. with
> leaves and not only with a blurred green.

Remember the old "Content Aware Fill" in photoshop, and how it often
failed to find a suitable patch? AI fill works great in comparison.
However, you don't need AI for any tiny editing job.

There is already NI (natural intelligence) sitting in front of the
monitor. No one but you can find the best patch for a hole. That's why
the Patch Tool exists: Drag a suitable area into the hole and PTGui will
do it's magic adjusting seams and color for a perfect match.

--
Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de

[Stephan Weber]

Thanks for feedback. I am using stil 12.27, cannot find a patch editor, but what you wrote sounds good.

Bye Stephan

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[Erik Krause]

Am 16.06.2025 um 20:06 schrieb Stephan Weber:

> I am using stil 12.27, cannot find a patch editor, but
> what you wrote sounds good.

The patch tool was introduced with version 13.0 In version 12 you would
need to extract a rectilinear view (f.e. using my free templates:
https://erik-krause.de/ttt/#extract-insert ), then edit the patch with
your image editor and re-insert it. Or follow the procedure outlined on
https://wiki.panotools.org/Extract_and_insert_rectilinear_views#PTGui

[Stephan Weber]

Hi Erik, you say 'rectilinear'. Would it also work for cyclindric panos? Here I suffer often from too rounded edges, so that I need to crop more than I want.

Bye Stephan

[Erik Krause]

Am 26.06.25 um 10:48 schrieb Stephan Weber:

> Hi Erik, you say 'rectilinear'. Would it also work for cyclindric panos?

It's not the pano projection, that has to be rectilinear. It's only the
patch. You can use whichever projection you like for your panorama, as
long as the patch is rectilinear for both extraction and insertion.

Most image editors are not designed to handle cylindrical projection. If
you patch a nadir hole, you likely want to copy structures from outside
this hole into it. In cylindrical projection, those won't fit, since
they are distorted relative to the center. Try it with an evenly tiled
floor.

However, I had good results with an extracted nadir up to 120° wide.
That's why the default Field of View is set to 120° in my templates.