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Greetings,

I'm working with some new software for creating virtual tours - 3DVista. One of their features is the ability to create what they call "Live Panoramas," which is basically a time lapse 360 panorama. As an experiment I took photos from the same location at various times before, during, and after sunset. The way it works is that the panorama will gradually change from the panorama taken at the earliest time through 2 or 3 others until showing the panorama taken at the latest time. Here's a 23 second video demonstration.

For this to work the alignment of all of the panoramas used to make the Live Panorama needs to be perfect. I usually use PTGui for stitching, but for these Live Panoramas 3DVista suggests using their stitching program. For whatever reason (probably my fault for slight camera/tripod movement?) the stitched panoramas are not perfectly aligned. Close, but not perfect.

I know how to align the four stitched panos in PS, but I'm not yet familiar enough with Affinity Photo to know how to do it here and am looking to expand my knowledge of AP (and break away from PS).

First I want to edit each photo individually to add a curve, some clarity, and a few other minor edits (which I know how to do) and then align them. I don't want to do any exposure blending, effects, or anything other than simply align them and then crop out or fill in any white space resulting from the alignment.

Thanks for any help. Have a great New Year.

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Hi Big Swifty,

The alignment should be the same process as in PS.  I take it you just manually line the image up on the canvas?  

You could try the New Stack option in Photo and use the auto-align option to see what results that gives.  If not ideal, if you could provide some sample images and a bit more info about your PS work, we should be able to come up with something that works :) 

 

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