Editing Seams with PTStitcherNG

Prof. Dr. H. Dersch - HFU Furtwangen

Apply Seam Mask

Mask images are applied to the stitching process using the -e option:

PTStitcherNG -e mask.tif -o pano project.pts

We use the original unaltered project file project.pts and create a panoramic image named pano with this command. This is the result with the hidden camera bracket:

Some final notes:

The stitching mask may be saved and reused for other projects or for repeated stitching, e.g. if project parameters are changed.
The stitching mask must be saved in a lossless format. One of the compressed TIFF-variants is ideal and allows the user to save all relevant seam information in a few kilobytes to repeat the stitching process at any time.
The stitching mask must be the same size as the panoramic image. If a stitching mask is scaled to be reused for differently sized panoramas, then the scaling process must preserve the colors (no interpolation).
Seam editing currently (PTStitcherNG version 0.7) does not work with option -b 1 (optimized seam positioner) and options -z or -n (blend over zenith/nadir).