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NewsForge: Hugin Paints a Panoramic Picture

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 26, 2005

“I like to spend my vacations in places with wide-open vistas,
and I love taking pictures of those views. I’m not a professional
photographer, and I like the convenience of digital cameras, but
sometimes the photo I get is not what I imagined: the area taken by
the camera is just too small. Modern digital cameras offer specific
functions that in conjunction with their own software can give us a
panoramic view, but often that still doesn’t give me what I want.
When that happens, I can get the effect I want from Hugin, an open
source interface to other open source tools that helps easily
transform your pictures into panoramas.

“Hugin is available in several different languages and is
cross-platform; it can run on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and
Windows…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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