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A couple of months ago I visited Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome and shot a lot of pictures of old airplanes (from pre-WW I to about the 1950s.) Naturally, I didn't think about making a pano at that time.
Recently, I was inspired by someone's work in the gallery, and thought that a pano showing an old plane taking off or landing would be interesting if the plane was duplicated several times. And another pano with one of each type of aircraft in flight.
What I found was that many of the images I had showed a sequence, but many times the images did not connect.
Other image sets were taken in burst mode, and showed slower airplanes.
So I can get a continuous background with one plane, and stitch images of another plane on it based on the background trees and grass (they use a grass runway.)
The issue is that its tough for me to place the images by hand, APP does a better job of finding these types of matches.
I could just dump all the images into one pano, but APP gives an error if I try that (the error occurs while generating the pano).
So is there any good way to make a background picture and then let APP place other images on it?
Or should this be a request for a future feature?
Last edited by hankkarl (2008-11-24 17:46:52)
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hankkarl wrote:
So is there any good way to make a background picture and then let APP place other images on it?
The right feature to be used for that kind of "background + additional views" pano is the Layers Editor.
In the background layer you place the background source images and possibly some airplane source images you are sure you want in the final panorama.
In any other layer you place an additional plane.
Then you render the layers separately or in a single (PSD, TIFF) multilayer file and use a post processing application (PS, GIMP, etc) to build your final panorama. Masks are easy to set by using a soft brush. Books like Martin Evening - Photoshop for Photographers cover this kind of processing with many useful examples (see Montage Techniques chapter for this book.)
If you know exactly what you want/don't want in the result you can use TIFF source images with masks as the source images but I believe post-processing is more flexible...
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Hi GURL,
That's pretty much what I am doing. But I have to re-render the pano every time. I was hoping for a shortcut where I could do the background once, and APP would remember those links.
I'd do all the pictures in one big pano, but APP crashes on my machine. 
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hankkarl wrote:
Hi GURL,
That's pretty much what I am doing. But I have to re-render the pano every time. I was hoping for a shortcut where I could do the background once, and APP would remember those links.
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Perhaps I misunderstand you but if you save the pano project as a .pano file it does remember the links.
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