360° panorama with AP 1.7.2.471 / selection of center photo(s)

[Bladerunner1452]

I am completely new to Affinity Photo, but I'm very impressed of the features. Beside the fact I have to learn much about workflows and using the ovewhelming number of posiibilities during development and cosmetic of photos, I just tried to generate a panorama from photos made automatically by a Yuneec Typhoon H hexacopter, resp. the attached CGO3+ camera. In general, it works very well; of course there are lot of things to be corrected etc., especially because the default lense of this camera has an extreme wide angle, so there are several optical distortions (like a moderate fisheye effect). But all of this seem to be able to be managed. My main problem is, that the series of photos cover a full circle of 360° and I found no way to influence the selected center of the resulting panorama. If I select only 6 of the 8 photos I get the wanted result, but with all 8 photos I always get the same resulting panorama with the main motif distributed to the edges instead of locating it in the center! Is this really a lacking feature or did I simply not find the way to influence it?

[stokerg]

Hi Bladefunner1452 and Welcome to the Forums,

We can't stitch a full 360 panorama and i guess you get the same issue as this thread.  If your camera had the ability to join these together into a flat image, like shown in this tutorial you could then project that and edit the full image.  

[Bladerunner1452]

Hi,

sorry for the long delay, but during the last 2 months I hadn't any time to look into this forum. Many thanks for your answer, it offers new possibilities for editing panoramas. But my problem was not to stitch a full 360° panorama, because that was absolutely successful. I got a superb flat panorama image. The only problem I had, was, that I wanted the building with the sunset placed in the center of the resulting image; instead of that, the automatic stitching algorithm of Affinity Photo decided to place this building and the sunset splitted into the left and right edges of the stitched image. It should be easy to add a feature to this algorithm, which allows me to choose those source picture(s) I want to be placed to the center of the stitched image. When I omit one or two of the source pictures (depending of the dimension of the overlap areas), the result is as wanted, because the algorithm can't close the circle, but it should also be possible to do the same with pictures for the full circle. Example: I have 8 images, which closes a full 360° circle (from left to right image 1 overlaps with image 2, 2 with 3, ..., 8 with 1). What I need now, is to influence the stitching, so that images 4 and 5 are placed into the center of the resulting (stitched) image, while the program per default decides to place 8 and 1 into the center, so that the (for me) most important parts of the panorama are placed into the corners!

Edited October 19, 2019 by Bladerunner1452
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