FMC Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I would love to see: 1. A user-selectable panorama 'projection' option (like perspective, cylindrical, spherical, orthographic, etc.). Affinity's stitched panorama does a really good job but doesn't always choose the best projection type. When objects with many straight lines (like buildings) are in a scene a perspective projection works best as straight lines remain straight. A wide angular span mountain shot usually benefits from a cylindrical projection. The Microsoft freeware Image Composite Editor (MS ICE) does a great job of allowing the user to quickly click between different projections (after the images have been stitched) and pick the best one. 2. Allowing the user to specify the camera's orientation (pan, tilt, roll) of the panorama Again, MS ICE let's the user easily do this (mouse drag left-right for panning, mouse drag up-down for tilt, mouse drag image corner for roll). This allows, for example, choosing the center of a 360 panorama by just dragging the mouse left-right. Below is a shot of MS ICE's option I love Affinity photo and it has many more options than MS ICE but is really missing these two EXTREMELY useful panorama features that are freely available from MS ICE. Thanks. agadirweb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Skinner Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 This is an old topic but I too would echo this request. My current favoured stitching program is Autopano Pro (no longer sold or developed) and it too has these options. In particular its planar option makes a very good job of stitching buildings taken as a panorama. Sooner or later I'll need a new stitching program and I'd prefer to use Affinity as it has other tools I like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montfrooij Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 This would be a great feature indeed. I also use Autopano, but Affinity could easily replace it with this feature! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrienL Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I want to echo it too. I love doing panorama, but I would love to have more option and to have the interface a little bit reworked. With projection options, I would love to see outputting the panorama as .dng when used with raw files to give greater flexibility in editing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmiller1079 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Absolutely agree with the comments above. At the very least, Equirectangular, Cylindrical and Rectilinear - the latter being pertinent to architectural panoramas. A somewhat similar effect can be obtained using negative fisheye adjustments, but this will not give you nice vertical lines on the building. It will always look warped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Most of the time the Panorama tool works well, but there are times when it would be really useful to have more manual control, particularly when you are trying to stitch flat artwork. tmiller1079 and Krustysimplex 2 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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