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HUGIN

One of the reasons that in the past month I have not made a single post in this blog is that I have been testing a program made a panoramic view and am completely dedicated to the production of these images.
A panoramic picture is formed from many shots taken earlier in the same axis. To be more clear, here we can see an example in a 360-degree image that I made in the Candelaria (historic center of Bogotá).

The program I've been using is called HUGIN Panorama Creator, a free software that runs on GNU / Linux and Windows (of course it works best on GNU / Linux) and tools to meet many scenarios in a single frontend (GUI).
This program is incredibly easy to use, I want to share the steps I used to make this image of the Candelaria.

1. Taking photographs: I stood at the corner of the street with the camera on a tripod and took 36 photos to complete a 360 degree turn. (Although all tutorials professionals recommend taking the photos in braketing, you do not know if that is the braketing or are working with an amateur camera, yet the resulting image will be amazing)
2. The program's interface has a series of tabs, if you took the photos correctly you will only need the first, the wizard. Here you will find a button that says load images, you have to select all the images and upload them to the program.
3. once loaded the photos you must press the button that says align images, this process takes a few minutes depending on the size of the image. At the end, it will open the preview window and you can watch more or less how it will be the final photo. If you like what you see
4. Back to the wizard and press the button that says "Create panorama" and after a few minutes (depending on the size of the image) can see your finished picture in tiff format.

Of course the program has many more features, manually aligns and has many control algorithms for both photos base and the end result. The website
Hugin http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ find many spectacular views that will show the possibilities of the program and several tutorials (mostly in English but some in English).
I personally am completely seduced by this program and I have my have more than 40 scenarios that will soon be posting on my photoblog.
The program is at the heart of the Ubuntu software, for those who want install today and for those using other operating systems will find the installer on the Hugin website.