Any improvement in Aff. Photo V2 to make panoramas?

[AT.HA]

Hello,
I would like to know if there is any improvement in Aff. Photo V2 to make panoramas, with multiple images? Or has nothing changed?

Thank you very much.
Best Regards,

[loukash]

What "improvements"?
Perhaps you may want to outline first what do you think was wrong with the panorama mode in v1.

[AT.HA]

11 minutes ago, loukash said:

What "improvements"?
Perhaps you may want to outline first what do you think was wrong with the panorama mode in v1.

Thanks for your message. Nothing to point out wrong because I never used it; I never needed. Now I need it and it can be an incentive to upgrade ,-) to V2.

[loukash]

The only things I dislike on the Panorama mode is:

1. you can't drag and drop files from Finder onto the New Panorama window, you have to click the Add button and navigate to the files
2. in the same window, there's no keyboard shortcut for the Stitch Panorama button either, you have to click it as well

That didn't change in v2, as far as I can tell.

Other than that, I'm fine with what it does. Usually I'm not stitching photos, but multiple passes from a scanner when I'm scanning stuff larger than the scanner area, e.g. mostly vinyl LP covers (31×31 cm). Done that literally hundreds of times, with excellent results.

[AT.HA]

Thank you for your impressions. If it already worked well, I think that's enough.
Interestingly, I work for album covers (LP, CD, etc.), but panoramas are not for that; who knows, they might even be one day ,-)

[loukash]

6 minutes ago, AT.HA said:

If it already worked well, I think that's enough.

Before I fully switched to Affinity, I was stitching the scans with Photoshop CS5.1. 
Affinity is much faster, the initial results are usually better, and if not, they are much better editable than in PS. 
However, it needs a bit of practice to get the "feeling" for the algorithm if you want to be correcting the stitching mask. Sometimes the algorithm has its own mind…  

Just now, AT.HA said:

Interestingly, I work for album covers (LP, CD, etc.)

Nice! I also designed a bunch of covers myself over the years: loukash.com/design/covers (among others)

My scanning is mostly done for my offline record collection database in FileMaker, as well as when submitting or updating database entries on Discogs and on Discogs Marketplace. I still have literally thousands of records to scan, haha… (Well, likely not, though: given my scanning rate in the past, my remaining lifespan won't be long enough. Thus I'm mainly just focusing on the records I want to sell at the moment.)

[AT.HA]

Really cool ,-) Thanks for sharing.

https://www.ateliercunha.com/Published/Record-covers/

[loukash]

3 minutes ago, AT.HA said:

https://www.ateliercunha.com/Published/Record-covers/

Ooo… some of them look quite scary… 

But I also see from your About page that you've been in the design business for quite long. A bit longer than me, in fact, as I finished the art school in 1988.
So you surely know what you need and what you like.
The best will be to download the V2 trial and check it all out for yourself.  

[loukash]

Speaking of Discogs, I have found you: discogs.com/artist/3071511

[AT.HA]

10 hours ago, loukash said:

Ooo… some of them look quite scary… 

But I also see from your About page that you've been in the design business for quite long. A bit longer than me, in fact, as I finished the art school in 1988.
So you surely know what you need and what you like.
The best will be to download the V2 trial and check it all out for yourself.  

Scary? ,-)

[PaulEC]

The one problem I have found with the panorama tool is that, sometimes, if you are trying to stitch flat artwork you can get a slight distortion. (In all fairness it isn't actually intended for this usage!)

[AT.HA]

10 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

The one problem I have found with the panorama tool is that, sometimes, if you are trying to stitch flat artwork you can get a slight distortion. (In all fairness it isn't actually intended for this usage!)

Thanks for sharing your "problem". In my case it is more for small indoor panoramas, for when 35mm on the Fuji GFX (28mm in Full Frame) is not wide enough. 3-6 vertical images are enough depending on the places. 

I think I prefer less wide images together, to make a small panorama, than a single ultrawide image with the usual and inherent optical distortions of these lenses. I'm going to test even with more standard focal lengths (50mm) to see if it works and avoid distortion as much as possible.

[loukash]

1 hour ago, PaulEC said:

if you are trying to stitch flat artwork you can get a slight distortion

True. That's because there are too few distinct overlapping points.
What helps is to proceed in multiple steps. As in my above examples with LP covers, I'd stich just two scan passes that work fine first, save as TIFF or PNG. Then the other two scan passes. Then I stitch just those two intermediate "panoramas". In most instances this works fine then.

It's scans like e.g. this one that can be tricky: 
discogs.com/release/214630/image/SW1hZ2U6ODU2NzgzMDM=

[KlimoCZ]

Hello, a feature I missed in Affinity is the folding of creating a full spherical panorama. The editing is awesome, but I have to compose the actual panorama in PTgui. I believe the development of this folding will be challenging. It would certainly pay off if the information got out to the real estate market. I'm sure there would be a lot of potential buyers.