Flutterby™! : Linux pano tools

(Full sized images, 12440 x 2771 and 9760 x 2882 respectively, available if you click through and then click through again. If, for any reason, you want really high res versions of some mediocre shots)

When using Hugin to stitch panoramas under Linux(or whatever), stitch "into a high quality TIFF file" to enable blending between images. Any other setting, including high quality JPEG, results in harsh transitions between the stitched images. Seems weird that standard workflow requires an extra image conversion step at the end, but that's what works, and I suppose that I could supply a patch. At any rate, Hugin has supplanted the Canon PhotoStitcher for panoramas for me.

Now if I can just figure out how to get qtpfsgui to handle subtle rotations (4 pixels or so over 4k pixels) rather than just shifts and translates I could get some HDR stuff going too. I'm actually wondering if I can use pfstools to do the initial alignment in conjunction with the HDR composite, and then use something else, maybe Hugin, for the tone mapping.