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Bug 350840 - Stiching photos together (panorama)
Stiching photos together (panorama)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: f-spot
Classification: Other
Component: Editing
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: F-spot maintainers
F-spot maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on: 311550
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-08-11 04:42 UTC by Andrew Mitchell
Modified: 2018-07-12 00:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Andrew Mitchell 2006-08-11 04:42:05 UTC
Forwarding from: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/54762

I own a Canon PowerShot A85 camera and am using f-spot on Dapper.

I have taken some photos in "Stitched" mode. This keeps a bit of the previous picture on the screen so that one can take multiple photos that line up into one long photo.

If I use the proprietary software in Windows, the following happens:
1) The photos are imported
2) The fact that I have taken photos in this mode is detected by the software and I am taken into a "Stitching" programme. This may be done off filenames as I cannot immediately see any tags about it.
3) The software automatically attempts to overlay the photos in the correct places and produces a chain of photos.
4) A square is drawn around the photos to give the biggest possible connected photo (when using this mode, one often slips up or down and this cuts off the bits either side).

For most photos, this is all automatic and merely requires the user to confirm things.

I would love to see this feature implemented in f-spot - it would give the feature to all cameras, not just mine. I realise that it is a lot of work and suggest that perhaps it could be done as follows:

1) Create a sub-programme to work with the photos manually. This would probably need the ability to manually move the photos around and the ability to draw a square to create one photo from them.
2) Create an option to select some photos and open the programme in (1). This would mean that the user could manually select photos to be stitched and somehow select "Stitch these Photos".
3) Try to automate the process of lining the photos up by matching similar regions and the process of drawing a square around the combined picture.
4) Try to detect sets of stitched photos - this is likely camera specific. If all the above is done, this could be implemented camera-by-camera with the owners of unsupported cameras keeping to the manual method.
5) Perhaps a dialogue could be displayed after importing asking whether or not the user would like to enter the stitching programme. The detected "sets" could be displayed as a list of small pictures on one side.
Comment 1 Stephane Delcroix 2006-08-11 08:01:33 UTC
1) Look at hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/)... it does a really great job
2) Easy
3) That's done in hugin, once you have selected the pictures...

4) & 5) depends on how it's defined by the camera. Personnaly, I never use the stitching capability of my camera to shoot panoramas, 'cause it only support stitching in landscape in horizontal direction... So, my camera don't know that the images are part of a set

One more thing to have to fully support panoramas or stitching, is stacking of pictures, as described in bug #311550

Comment 2 Maxxer 2007-11-28 15:26:59 UTC
I really love Hugin, but I don't know how it could be integrated in F-Spot, since it doesn't have any command line option! 

If you have any idea I'll be happy to try.
Comment 3 Olivier Guéry 2008-09-15 19:26:15 UTC
I realy would like this idear.
First, and realy simple I hope, can it be possible to select photos and do an « open with hugin » in the contextual menu ?

Regards,
Olivier.
Comment 4 Maciej (Matthew) Piechotka 2010-07-26 08:12:22 UTC
I took the liberty to change version to unspecified. I would really would like to see this functionality too.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2018-07-12 00:10:24 UTC
F-Spot has moved to https://github.com/f-spot/f-spot/issues

If this Bugzilla ticket is still valid in a recent version of F-Spot, please feel free to post this topic as a ticket in the F-Spot project on GitHub.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping as we are planning to shut down GNOME Bugzilla in favor of GNOME Gitlab.