[X] My Assistant

[Tesheiner]

After a drive on sol 619, Spirit has finally reached the true summit of Husband Hill, almost touching the summit rock.

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[Nix]

Well, I use the 'levels' in PS most of the time. By adjusting the input levels sliders; shadows-midtones(actually a gamma function)-highlights. I also adjust the output level sliders for contrast.

However, if what you mean from left to right is also per frame, I would increase the brightness of the first (left) frame by about 25% (deselect sky maybe) and then match the second to the first, third to the second,...you will eventually be left with a row that is bright on the left and gradually darker to the right as if the sequence were taken on one day, with varying sunlight troughout the 360 degrees of the scene..however for a full 360 or even a 240-270 your approach is very valuable with the uncalibrated images because otherwise the left and right ends of the scene might not be 'right' if you wanted to make a QTVR of the pan...sigh

It's troublesome though and I feel I approach it differently on every other mosaic I do.

What we really need is Vicar & MarsRad

Nico

[Tman]

>>It's troublesome though and I feel I approach it differently on every other mosaic I do.<<

Yea, I know that feeling too. One have to or can try so much in PS.

Btw. Nico, when your PTGui finally caculates and stitches such a full res. pan, how many time needs your computer for it - as example by stitching one 360 degrees row of 27 Pancam frames? I dont know, but my computer (or graphics cart) seems to be rather too slow. The pan above was my first big stitch, but sadly I overslept the end of the stitching process and waked up after three hours from start on.
But now the pan with 27 frames seems the speed problem striking to slow down. After two hours in progress it's still by 80 percent "Preparing Stitching Masks" I guess need a better graphic cart for it..