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teerex · 23rd October 2003

Hope this is the right forum to post this, but anyway -

Anyone knows of a shareware or freeware panoramic stiching software ?

Please recommend, THANKS

linse · 23rd October 2003

The best quality freeware panorama stitching program is Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools. Unfortunately, it is command line driven and quite difficult and labour intensive to use. There is no automatic setting. You have to define the control points manually. It can output to multi layered PSD format which means you can do additional blending in Photoshop for a seamless stich. However, the quality of the panorama is unequaled by any commercial software. I don't know of any other program that can correct for pitch and roll. I've created multiple beautiful panoramas with handheld shots while on holiday. Each time I'm able to have a perfectly flat horizon with perfectly straight buildings which is a major problem with other stitching software unless you have a perfectly leveled tripod with the camera exactly centered on the horizon. It can also do multi-row panoramas, spherical panoramas as well as rectilinear panoramas.

The are two shareware graphical interfaces for Panorama Tools around, PTGUI and PTAssembler. Both versions gives you a 30 day trial before you need to register. PTGUI costs EUR 49 and PTAssembler US$29 to register. Do check out the stitched images at Max Lyons Digital Image Gallery. He is the author of PTAssembler.

You can also check out PanoGuide for reviews of other stitching softwares. The site needs some updating though.

teerex · 26th October 2003

Thanks for your recommedations linse

23rd October 2003	#1
teerex Moderator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 4,650	Shareware Hope this is the right forum to post this, but anyway - Anyone knows of a shareware or freeware panoramic stiching software ? Please recommend, THANKS Last edited by togu; 24th October 2003 at 03:17 AM.

23rd October 2003	#2
linse Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 314	The best quality freeware panorama stitching program is Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools. Unfortunately, it is command line driven and quite difficult and labour intensive to use. There is no automatic setting. You have to define the control points manually. It can output to multi layered PSD format which means you can do additional blending in Photoshop for a seamless stich. However, the quality of the panorama is unequaled by any commercial software. I don't know of any other program that can correct for pitch and roll. I've created multiple beautiful panoramas with handheld shots while on holiday. Each time I'm able to have a perfectly flat horizon with perfectly straight buildings which is a major problem with other stitching software unless you have a perfectly leveled tripod with the camera exactly centered on the horizon. It can also do multi-row panoramas, spherical panoramas as well as rectilinear panoramas. The are two shareware graphical interfaces for Panorama Tools around, PTGUI and PTAssembler. Both versions gives you a 30 day trial before you need to register. PTGUI costs EUR 49 and PTAssembler US$29 to register. Do check out the stitched images at Max Lyons Digital Image Gallery. He is the author of PTAssembler. You can also check out PanoGuide for reviews of other stitching softwares. The site needs some updating though.

26th October 2003	#3
teerex Moderator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 4,650	Thanks for your recommedations linse