hugin

[Brian Cluff]

Double check that you do indeed have control points between every single 
image.  It sounds like you might have a single image that isn't 
connected in any way, or maybe only partially connected and when it 
stitches it end up placed on top of all your other images.  The preview 
is just an OpenGL preview of what you can expect to get but it works 
differently than the final stitch so you can often times get different 
results if your control points aren't all perfect.

You can check your layout tab in the fast panorama preview (the GL 
preview button) and play with the scale.  The layout tab will quickly 
show you how your images are connected together and how well.  If you 
have any images that are just floating out there with no lines then 
that's your culprit.  You will also want to look for images with very 
thin lines going between the images. Thin lines represent weak 
connections and you will need to increase the number of control points 
between your images.

There is also a high probability, since you said you hand held the 
camera when you took the pictures that even though you picked matching 
spots in the image that there is no way for the program to warp the 
images  correctly due to parallax distortion.  If your images are of the 
inside of a room, that's almost certainly the case.

Finding the no parallax point:

http://www.johnhpanos.com/epcalib.htm

You will have to get one of these and it will have to be precisely setup 
correctly for your camera if you are going to take pictures indoors.  
There is just no other way to do it:

https://www.amazon.com/SUNWAYFOTO-Panoramic-Horizontal-Vertical-Sunway/dp/B00RYNDMOC/ref=sr_1_11

https://www.amazon.com/DSLRKIT-Panoramic-Indexing-Rotator-Bracket/dp/B00PN8DY7K/ref=sr_1_14

https://www.amazon.com/FOTOMATE-degree-Panoramic-Bracket-Cameras/dp/B00PQH4OY0/ref=sr_1_32

There are a lot more out there, but these 3 are some of the most 
affordable ones.  I've got 2 of them; one made by Manfrotto that cost a 
lot of money and is built like a tank and I think it might weigh as much 
as a tank as well.  I've also got a Nodal Ninja that I really like that 
weighs a lot less, which is why I got it, and does an equally good job 
for a fraction of the money.

Brian Cluff

On 08/19/2016 06:27 AM, Michael wrote:
> I'm trying to do a panorama. It found at least 17 control points 
> between images 0,1 and 2,3 and 3,4  (each pair had 17). I had to go in 
> and put control points for images 1 and 2. That was fine but when I 
> stitch it all together the picture on the ball seems fine but the 
> resultin panorama image is one of the five photos of the panorama 
> stretched out. Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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