In no particular order:
- make all the export settings sticky, and not just between files, but between sessions. It's a drag re-setting to 100% JPEG with every image. For some reason TIFF format sticks after one has been created. It seems somewhat arbitrary as to when I'm forced to save as TIFF (or at least JPEG is not a save option). Some of these settings aren't even sticky between curvature and regular modes (ie click APPLY in the former, and the export settings change when compositing is finished).
- allow straighten/rotate so I can optimise a best fit rectangle inside ICE
- expose some of MS' image fill-in technology to interpolate/extrapolate sky, grass, ground cover etc around the edge of composites
- make the camera motion descriptions available WITHOUT activating them and thus regenerating the picture. I can never remember the difference between the 3 planar modes.
As a follow up to the stickiness of settings, i just tried to stitch 2 images. ICE defaulted to ROTATE/H-SPHERE. This looked rather ridiculous as the horizon became two arcs.
I manually set the Projection to PERSEPCTIVE, which although not perfect was a marked improvement over H-SPHERE. Unfortunately every time I try to export the result, it re-composes as H-SPHERE.
Usually when there is an arc in the image, it can be fixed via the rotation tool. In the same view where you changed the projection, you can also use your mouse to re-orient the pano. As you move your cursor over the image you will see it change between 3 options - (1)left-right rotation, (2)up-down rotation, and (3)twisting rotation. It takes a bit of experimentation to get some intuition as to what these do.
As for changing back to perspective, this is because your pano is too wide to show the whole thing using perspective. If you exported using this option we would need to crop out significant portions. If you really want to use this, then you probably can regenerate your pano using fewer of the input images.
mattu:Usually when there is an arc in the image, it can be fixed via the rotation tool. In the same view where you changed the projection, you can also use your mouse to re-orient the pano. As you move your cursor over the image you will see it change between 3 options - (1)left-right rotation, (2)up-down rotation, and (3)twisting rotation. It takes a bit of experimentation to get some intuition as to what these do.
Mmm the "rotation tool" rates rather low on the discovery index. I've been using this for quite a while now on hundreds of image sets and never seen the cursor change to (3), because I'd never put it near the extreme edges of my wide screen .
mattu:As for changing back to perspective, this is because your pano is too wide to show the whole thing using perspective. If you exported using this option we would need to crop out significant portions. If you really want to use this, then you probably can regenerate your pano using fewer of the input images.
ICE should be more explicit about this then as there are no cues that something might be wrong. Every time it throws away something the user worked for without explanation it's frustrating the user. I tried this again and again and again and ....