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Abe C
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 5:35 pm: |   |
When i stitch night pictures together, the colors are changed and becomes very grainy. Is this a default action? How can i fix this? This is by far the best panoramic software I have seen. |
John Strait
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 9:23 pm: | |
The result you describe is caused by the Exposure Matching and/or Exposure Correction making very bad choices.
These functions do not perform well in some extreme cases. For example, it may not be possible to exposure match a 360 degree panorama that includes images into deep shadow and into bright sun (maybe including the sun itself). The exposure correction function tries to balance the resulting image to a pleasing range of brightnesses including black and white (it is a histogram stretching function).
In particular, Exposure Correction performs poorly for night photographs. It boosts the brightness of the entire image, trying to move the average brightness to a midrange value.
I suggest you experiment by turning off Exposure Correction and/or Exposure Matching in different combinations to see if this helps.
You can control these options on Wizard step 3 or with the Blending properties dialog (Tools menu). |
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