Yeah, Microsoft embraced FOSS when it figured out if could use the FOSS code to feed its Copilot AI which itself isn’t free…
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I stopped following what MS did or didn’t do when I completed the move of all of my machines to linux over 15 years ago. So I may have missed that bit of “news”. Can’t say I care deeply though, doing fine with my chosen OS and the software available to me.
Hi, @krupkat, and welcome to the forum!
I was just wondering if Xpano could be used with The Brenizer Method? I’m not too familiar with the photo stitching process, but I always wanted to give this technique a try.
Also, I just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’ for adding yet another great tool to the FOSS photography toolbox. 
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I don’t see why not.
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Thank you for the nice words @martbetz!
I have just learned about the Brenizer method, it might work, but there may be some some issues overlapping images that are completely out of focus - e.g in the corners of the final image. Now I’m eager to try out the method 
Will report when I have some results.
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Thank you for this development. I’ve installed the flatpak in Mint 21.1 and used Pano on some test images I had collected to test Hugin a month or so ago (being very new to the world of panoramic stitching). Pano was easy for me to use, gave an excellent result and even did an acceptably good ‘fill’ operation. On the basis of this first test, I don’t think I need to invest a lot more in learning Hugin.
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Hi, Installed from flatpak on Kubuntu 22.10, seems to work. (quick and superficial test). Nice and fast. Thank you
Greetings. Roberto
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I am currently looking at changing to Linux, probably ubuntu.
I’ve been trying to wrestle with Hugin (on Windows 10), but I haven’t had much success so far.
Anyway, I was very happy to see this post. If I do change to ubuntu I’ll be sure to try this out.
Thanks!
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Pretty nice! Grabbed some jpegs and did a quick test. Assembled with no fuss. Thanks to the developer and to OP for pointing it out.
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You’re very welcome, @krupkat — and thanks once again!
As soon as I get the chance, I’ll give that Brenizer Method a go and see what happens (or if I get to meet an EXTREMELY tall person on my next street photography walk-about, I’ll ask them to lie on the floor so I can do a standard pano 
).
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fyi, there is also a Windows version available, there’s a link in the downloads section: Xpano | Automated photo stiching tool
Oh, thanks a bunch.
Looks like I’ll be trying it today. 
Well, I’m pretty impressed.
The program was very easy to use, and it’s also the only pano-stitcher I’ve ever used that works OK on my slow PC.
Here’s the test panorama (stitched from 5 OOC JPGs):
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Great result, happy the app works well for you!
And thanks to everyone else as well who has commented, it is really nice to read! You can consider adding a review in a store app if your system has one
Can we add this software to the ones in Pixls.us list/website?
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Oh great! Just downloaded and tried it on a Brenizier - worked PERFECTLY.
Also tried on a ~180 degree pano which it split into two separate panos - not sure why, but this one did have a large and dark featureless area…
I’ll try it on some real-world examples when I have a chance. Quite impressed!
Edit - I was in a bit too much of a hurry - just tried computing a full res version of the brenizier example and got this -
I can’t share these images I’m afraid, but I’ll try it again once I take some images.
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Thanks for testing the app! Hope we’ll be able to figure out the issue eventually.
There are some debug logs you could send me, in Help → Support there is their location + the support email.
Well, I just tried again with a new set of jpegs from the same camera/lens and it worked well this time, full rez and export. Only issue with the result is that I wasn’t steady enough and the depth of field has shifted between some shots.
Let me know if you want the originals…
I’ll have a look for those logs… thanks!
P.S. this was 16 OOC jpgs.
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Good that it worked this time I imagine it is pretty hard to achieve hand held.
The app splits the images into groups if it cannot find an overlap, featureless areas are the worst indeed. You can try to force add an image to a group by ctrl clicking a thumbnail in the film strip.
Edit: this way you can also remove an image from a group and the pano will be recomputed
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