[X] My Assistant

[elakdawalla]

After lazily letting you guys do all the work stitching panoramas, I've finally set up Hugin and tried stitching my own. I worked through a tutorial or two and have managed to make a panorama whose frames are nicely blended, but there are vignetting problems that I don't know how to deal with. Can someone offer me advice on what settings I should try to change, and how?

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[jamescanvin]

I can't check your files as I'm at work but I have never used the crop function withing Hugin (it didn't exist when i started using it!), I always crop MSL images with imagemagik first.
Hugin handles lines of bright/dark pixels at the edge very badly, even the single column of pixels at the edge of MER images I replace with the column next to it to improve the blending dramatically.

Also if you are using the assitant make sure it is not trying too hard with the exposure settings, do this manually instead. In particular I don't optimse for camera response and I optimse for exposure first and *then* vignetting as doing them simultaneously can cause it to get carried away with the amount of vignetting to apply (which should be very small!)