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Improve quality command (Image menu)
Use this command to recompute the current image by directly sampling the imported images.
In normal operation, The Panorama Factory computes images by resampling their immediate predecessor images. For example, when you crop the stitched image, The Panorama Factory samples pixels from the stitched image. This leads to a generational degrading of the computed images.
The Improve quality command recreates the current image by tracking each pixel back to its corresponding location within the original imported images. This improves the image quality by replacing multiple image generations with a single generation.
The quality improvement may be subtle. A typical panorama only has three significant resampling generations: (1) trimming the imported images, (2) warping the trimmed images (includes fine tuning), and (3) cropping the stitched image. Other image processing steps do not introduce the type of generational degradation that is addressed by the Improve quality command.
There is a time-quality tradeoff involved here. The Improve quality command takes a significant amount of time to recompute the image. You may or may not find that the improvement is worth the time spent.
Images whose quality has been improved are marked with this symbol above their thumbnail images:
Please note also that quality improvement is temporary. The next time you recompute the image for any reason, the quality improvement is lost and you must repeat the Improve quality command. So you probably should use this command only immediately before printing or otherwise publishing a panorama.
Shortcuts
Toolbar:
Context menu in current image pane
Revised: October 12, 1999