Howto create a panorama using Hugin
On my trip to Mahabaleshwar (25th Jan 2009), I had gone to Pratap Gad. I took a series of photos with my Canon PowerShot A530. Its a very basic point and shoot camera. I took the pictures because I wanted to make a panaromic image out of them. I didn't knew how to go about it. Then I installed Ubuntu Studio. I found a software called Hugin panorama creator. I gave it a try.
The steps I followed were:
convert pan-01.tif pan-01.jpeg
Then resized it 50% using:
convert pan-01.jpeg -resize 50% pan-01-50.jpeg
The output is :
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopKhRD7RjUOthbKm3RQCuRb7JDobu3uoMuKhuaFqtVF_c6r_31G-elvMpqb9nnDbhvrdrSZ_mODPV9tU_c0Q7gVZF1U6Hc1WR53oFi8TbFxgkE9SCI_h79BtiLMPaYvDYlC9BI17el2n7/s400/test-01-50.jpeg)
After editing with GIMP, the final output is:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjMEbsdPsmasl4Zlom06BhMGshrHq_3PSsfE9zVxQW2koJKZTi8JsE56LZmKYpwb39f4loVF2id6bCj661sguWWtQ65cnYNSvx001Rlwcezcq6loTT08HxIS63hoy_AEal0_xMcCizSXy/s400/final-002.jpeg)
I would say not bad :). This encourages me to experiment more with my life.
The steps I followed were:
- Go to Applications -> Graphics -> Hugin panorama creator.
- Follow the assistant i.e. Click on "1. Load Imges" -> Selected all 5 of my images.
- Click "2. Align", it told me to create control points. Control points are points on same objects on your adjecent images. i.e. corner of a roof, present in 2 adjecent images.
- Select a point on both the images and click on "Add" button(present at the bottom). Add a minimum of 2 points per pair of images.
- The click on the "Optimizer" tab and click "Opimize now!".
- Click on the "Exposure" tab. You can select from the presets, I used "High dynamic range, fixed exposure". Then click "Optimize now!".
- Now go to the "Stitcher" tab, click "Calculate Field of View" then "Calculate Optimal Size".
- Then the finally "Stitch Now!".
convert pan-01.tif pan-01.jpeg
Then resized it 50% using:
convert pan-01.jpeg -resize 50% pan-01-50.jpeg
The output is :
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopKhRD7RjUOthbKm3RQCuRb7JDobu3uoMuKhuaFqtVF_c6r_31G-elvMpqb9nnDbhvrdrSZ_mODPV9tU_c0Q7gVZF1U6Hc1WR53oFi8TbFxgkE9SCI_h79BtiLMPaYvDYlC9BI17el2n7/s400/test-01-50.jpeg)
After editing with GIMP, the final output is:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjMEbsdPsmasl4Zlom06BhMGshrHq_3PSsfE9zVxQW2koJKZTi8JsE56LZmKYpwb39f4loVF2id6bCj661sguWWtQ65cnYNSvx001Rlwcezcq6loTT08HxIS63hoy_AEal0_xMcCizSXy/s400/final-002.jpeg)
I would say not bad :). This encourages me to experiment more with my life.
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