Automatic ghosts removal

[mc360photo]

I am a user of Autopano and due to closure of Kolor I am looking to an alternative for panorama stitching.

I am doing some test with PTGui that seems to me a suitable alternative but I was not able to found an automatic ghosts removal functionality as the one in Autopano.

It is my mistake or really all the ghosts removal has to be done manually in PTGui? 

Thanks for your suggestions

Marco

[PTGui Support]

Hi Marco,

Indeed, currently this has to be done manually, using the Mask tool. See:
http://www.ptgui.com/examples/masktutorial.html

Or you can install SmartBlend as a blending plugin in PTGui, see:
http://www.ptgui.com/plugins.html

Automatic ghost removal is planned for a future PTGui version.

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

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[mc360photo]

Hi Joost,

after some testing I can say that PTGui is a very good alternative for me to the "dead" AutopanoGiga from Kolor. 

PTGui is better in several aspect, but the missing of an automatic ghosts removal tool is really a major limitation, especially if you are shooting panorama in situation with many people in the scene. 

I have tested SmartBlend as you suggested but it doesn't seems to me to be a solution, it really doesn't remove ghosts and also is not almost not usable with large gigapixels panos.

Have you any forecast when you the planned automatic ghosts removal tool will be available for PTGui?

There is anything I can do to convince you to speed up this development?

Best rregards

Marco

[PTGui Support]

Hi Marco,

I'm aware of this! You don't need to convince me, this one is among the
highest priority feature requests on my list.

Development takes a lot of time, and it always takes longer than
expected so I never provide forecasts or roadmaps.

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

On 18/11/2018 10:18, mc360photo wrote:
> Hi Joost,
>
> after some testing I can say that PTGui is a very good alternative for
> me to the "dead" AutopanoGiga from Kolor.
> PTGui is better in several aspect, but the missing of an automatic
> ghosts removal tool is really a major limitation, especially if you are
> shooting panorama in situation with many people in the scene.
> I have tested SmartBlend as you suggested but it doesn't seems to me to
> be a solution, it really doesn't remove ghosts and also is not almost
> not usable with large gigapixels panos.
>
> Have you any forecast when you the planned automatic ghosts removal tool
> will be available for PTGui?
> There is anything I can do to convince you to speed up this development?
>
> Best rregards
> Marco
>
> Il giorno giovedì 15 novembre 2018 17:18:40 UTC+1, PTGui Support ha scritto:
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> Indeed, currently this has to be done manually, using the Mask tool.
> See:
> http://www.ptgui.com/examples/masktutorial.html
> <http://www.ptgui.com/examples/masktutorial.html>
>
> Or you can install SmartBlend as a blending plugin in PTGui, see:

> http://www.ptgui.com/plugins.html <http://www.ptgui.com/plugins.html>

>
> Automatic ghost removal is planned for a future PTGui version.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Joost Nieuwenhuijse

> www.ptgui.com <http://www.ptgui.com>

>
> On 15-11-2018 12:51, mc360photo wrote:
> >
> > I am a user of Autopano and due to closure of Kolor I am looking
> to an
> > alternative for panorama stitching.
> > I am doing some test with PTGui that seems to me a suitable
> alternative
> > but I was not able to found an automatic ghosts removal
> functionality as
> > the one in Autopano.
> > It is my mistake or really all the ghosts removal has to be done
> > manually in PTGui?
> > Thanks for your suggestions
> > Marco
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[Erik Krause]

Am 18.11.2018 um 10:18 schrieb mc360photo:
> PTGui is better in several aspect, but the missing of an automatic ghosts
> removal tool is really a major limitation, especially if you are shooting
> panorama in situation with many people in the scene.

You talk about HDR ghosts or overlap ghosts? For the latter I'd suggest
to use photoshop Auto Blend Layers. Save as a layered photoshop document
for this. For sphericals use my Auto Blend 360 script, which works
around the 360° border (which photoshop doesn't on it's own):
http://www.erik-krause.de/ttt/#AutoBlend360Javascript

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[mc360photo]

Hi Erik

I am interested to remove overlap ghosts and I hope an AI solution for ghosts removal as the one in AutopanoGiga will be available for PTGui in a near future.

Meanwhile your AutoBlend 360 is working well and seems to be the best solution I have found for PTGui.

BUT it is not working well in batch mode!! 

When you run your action on a layered PSD panoramas from Bridge selecting Photoshop|Batch,  the action opens the Photoshop dialog "Preferences|Units & Rulers" for each panorama layer it is going to process and a hit on return key is requested to continue. That make it useless in batch mode.

Any suggestion about fixing this issue?

Thanks

Marco

[Erik Krause]

Am 14.01.2019 um 17:20 schrieb mc360photo:
> When you run your action on a layered PSD panoramas from Bridge selecting
> Photoshop|Batch, the action opens the Photoshop dialog "Preferences|Units
> & Rulers" for each panorama layer it is going to process and a hit on
> return key is requested to continue. That make it useless in batch mode.

This should not happen. The script first saves the preferences, then
sets units to pixels and switches off dialogs.

> Any suggestion about fixing this issue?

I can reproduce it here, so there's nothing you do wrong. Could by I
found the culprit already. Stay tuned...

[Erik Krause]

Am 14.01.2019 um 19:27 schrieb Erik Krause:
> I can reproduce it here, so there's nothing you do wrong. Could be I

> found the culprit already. Stay tuned...

Could you download again and try:

http://www.erik-krause.de/ttt/#AutoBlend360Javascript

[Marco Chiaudano]

Perfect Erik ... really "Fast and Furious"  (fast sure, furious I hope no!!)

Thanks again

Marco Chiaudano

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