Freeware Find: Hugin Photo Stitcher
I’ve been experimenting with panoramas lately and as a result, I found a very nice free program for stitching multiple images together. It’s called Hugin, and its available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You don’t need a fisheye lens to make panoramas, all you need to do is take a bunch of overlapping images and let Hugin do the rest.
If you browse around the sorceforge page for Hugin, there are plenty of tutorials to get you started.
I did a panorama of my workspace as I learned more about stitching, so here it is:
In my experiments, I used Hugin to stitch my images into a single image, then I used a program called Cubic Converter ($49 US) to make a 360 degree QuickTime VR. Cubic Converter tutorials here. Here is the result:
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That is a very cool little app. I don’t have to use Photoshop anymore. Thanks.
what was wrong with photoshop’s built-in tool?
Nice place, Jay! Wow. How did you score that beauty?
I always was curious about how to create a Quicktime VR. Is it an arduous process that requires a lot of pictures, or do you only need a few images and a program that can seam them?
@Toby,
With a decent fisheye lens, it’s possible with as little as 8 pictures, with the right software.
oh, that’s good find and thanks for share :)
Hugin is awesome, I use it as a great tool for workshops and introducing people to panoramic photography.
If you’re on a Windows machine, you can also use Pano2QTVR instead of CubicConverter to create QTVR movies free:
http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2qtvr.php
If you really get into panoramas you’ll probably want to check out PTGui to replace Hugin (http://www.ptgui.com/) and Pano2VR to replace Pano2QTVR (made by the same company)
Hugin is more than just freeware, it’s free / open source too! That means no one company has control over the program, it’s developed by a community with no hidden agenda.
Exciting! I think this will be very useful.
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sweet.
oh…and love the shot of the opening credits for HOUSE. Hands down the best theme song music ever imo. :)
Tryin to figure out how to DL and install it……looks fun…but I’m lost at the moment!
This is again a great share from u Jay.
Thanks thanks for all this usefull stuff.
Keep it up o/
Jay, cheers for this one. I’ve been meaning to learn the process for this to offer it as a service to clients. You’re a legend.
Nice to see an xbox in there too. See you on COD ;)
woohooo! Wicked awesome find!! Thanks for sharing
You could also use “photomerge”…This is a new fonction of photoshop CS3.
It works and it rocks !
So how long did it take to tidy up your room for the shots, eh? I bet you even counted the pencils in the jar! ;)
works fine, very usefull
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Not sure how this is going to be useful to me since I have a tripod for panorama photos, but great find.
Thanks!
Thats awesome! I’ve always wanted to experiment with panoramas but never have the time. I’ll have to go do one now :D
I tried it out with some pics I took on vacation, works great!
Yum, looks like fun! Maybe once I clear up some room I will have room on my hard drive I can install some more stuff.
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good software – I use ptgui, have a look at some panos – http://www.pixelcase.com.au
When i started to experiment with panoramas, i thought about a flash program to show the panoramas plus i wanted something fancy like some raven (point and click) adventure style. So i created a flash for showing my panoramas, you can get it for free here: http://www.starsystems.ch/panoViewer.html
Wow. You can’t even tell that this is a seamed together photo. I just got CS4 and even though I didn’t use it yet I heard that there is a great new tool in there for this. But it seems like Hugin works great and I’m very impressed.
I have not used it yet; very excited! Thanks for another great BB freebie; or thanks for pointing us in the direction at least!
Wow, I’m excited to try this!
I am hearing about this tool for the first time. Thanks. Nice to know the tools available.
works fine, to use the software
Thanks I might try this. If someone needs free flash panorama viewer, check out http://panosalado.com/