Create an awesome panoramic photo, without special equipment

Step 3 Using autopano-sift

Autopano-sift is a program for adding the necessary check-points to a series of images, in order for Hugin to know where to stitch them together. Install the program, if you haven't already, and load the pictures onto your computer.

Next, go to the place in your start menu that you installed autopano-sift, and click open "autopano-sift GUI"
To use autopano-sift, do the following steps:

1) Click "Add Images" and add all the pictures in your panorama, from your camera
2) Optional Step: Set "Maximum Keypoints per image" to 20. This will make your pictures look a little nicer, but take longer for your computer to use autopano-sift and Hugin.
3) Under PTO output, click "Select" and browse to the folder you want to save this file. I reccomend using the same folder as your pictures are in. Name it whatever you like.
4) Click "Compute" and wait for it to finish thinking. It should take awhile, depending on how fast your computer is, how many photos you used, and what dimmensions the photos are. It will show you the progress though. I reccomend not opening up other programs, while you're waiting, because (for me atleast) it's prone to freazing.


When it finishes, click ok, and you should have a file called "output.pto" or whatever you named it, in your folder with the pictures.