#HUGIN IMAGE STACKING UPDATE#
#HUGIN IMAGE STACKING SOFTWARE#

I let these tools create two stacked images one of the static foreground and one of the aligned background, after that I currently use Gimp to load both images and take only the sky portion of the aligned and stacked image for the final images sky and the stacked image without aligning for the foreground. Now to reduce noise I'd like to stack them for which I am currently using a combination of Hugin for alignment and Image Magick to stack them. I like to take photos of starry landscapes like the ones I attached to this post. Dont worry about them, now open EnfuseGUI and just drag and drop images in there.I have just downloaded the affinity photo demo (for Windows), watched some tutorials and tried a little bit for myself and have some questions. You end up with bunch of files, the filenames are probably something like _MG_xxxx - _MG_xxxx_exposure_layers_0000. Then press stich and let Hugin do its magic, make sure you save the images in diffrent folder so you dont mix up the tiffs you just put in. A small window pops up, deselect Save cropped images so Hugin doesnt do unnecesary images wich you dont need. Move down to Remapped images and select No Exposure correction, low dynamic range. In the Sticher tab (panorama outputs) deselect Exposure correction, low dynamic range.

By doing this Hugin calculates original size, field of view and crops out empty areas to speed out stiching.

Now just close the preview window and go to Sticher tab.Ĭlick on the Calculate Field-of-view, after that has finished click on Calculate optimal size and after that Fit crop to images.

#HUGIN IMAGE STACKING UPDATE#

There is alot of empty space around the actual images, to fix this press Centre in the upper left corner and then update the preview with update button. Now lets see what your stack looks like: Press Control + P for preview. Make sure they are a match.īut for now dont mess with them, press Control + T and after the optimizer has finished click ok. However if you dont get the alignment right you can do this in the control points tab simply by adding control points in the image pairs. Hugin starts calculating the control points automatically, 99% of the photos Ive processed this is enough so you dont have to set control points manually.

#HUGIN IMAGE STACKING SOFTWARE#

Now go to folder you have your images, convert them to 16bit tiff at original size and resolution and do not make any adjustments in any software before! Stack first, edit later is the general rule.ĭrag and drop the images in Hugin, after they have loaded in the Photos tab click Create control points, left corner underneath the file list. On the top left select Interface and change that to Expert mode.

This is simplified version of it and what we want is to enable them all. When you lauch Hugin for the first time, it looks like this. Here is how I process my photos step-by-step. These two features make it the best software to align image stacks - for example astrophotography. Alignment is precise, vignette removal is superior compared to anything Ive used. Hugin is often used for stiching panoramas, it does it very well.

Hugin image stacking