[Gimp-user] image alignment/registration

[oneaty <forums gimpusers com>]

> Per recommendations here, I've used it and it worked really well; I've
> read, and experienced, that it seems to need images to be pretty close

Thanks for the feedback.
I believe if I shoot with a tripod it would work fine.
The point is that a tripod isn't an option to me most of the time.
My only camera is an old point & shoot Canon A3100, boosted by CHDK. CHDK has
many wonderful features, but the one I mostly use is its raw capability, not
available on Canon original  firmware.
Besides, I usually do a lot of stacking, pushing the final image quality to its
limits.
And here is my problem.
With PS, I can auto align hand held shots with excellent results. The
differences in perspective between shots do exist but are not big, because I try
to hold the camera the most steadier I can when shooting.
I just came from aligning the same set of pictures in PS I tried in Hugin, and
it worked almost perfectly.
Before that, I had also tried using JImage (and its full package FiJi), but it
is really, really complex and I gave up.
So, unfortunately (being an open source fan), I will still have to keep with PS,
until I find an open source alternative to its auto alignment feature.


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