Sorry to be late to this discussion. I have been shooting panoramas for about 15 years and have tried a number of programs. The main problem I have encountered with many software packages was the inability to correctly handle tilted images. Most assume a level camera which seldom captures the view that I wanted. I use PTGUI which is a windows front for Pano Tools. Pano Tools was written by someone in Germany and is free for download, however is a series of dos routines. PTGUI and some others have written a windows app to control it and it makes life much easier. This does an excellent job and gives you control of the exposures you are blending. You get a report showing the control points along with miss-closures. You can add or subtract points and then reprocess. Trees and other moving objects cause the most problems in panos. This may be more control than you would like but I find it very helpful. Gary Lobdell -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of klausknuthmail@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2014 10:55 PM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: Digital Panorama Stitching Software Thanks! Did anyone ever use something like the Roundshot? Just curious, Klaus On May 3, 2014, at 11:47 PM, karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is your personal opinion about the best option? That would be the question - is it PS? > > I have been pondering this question for a while and I have come up > with some weird 'alternative' results, > > Just wondering and thanks, > > > > > > autostitch - www.autostitch.net > > first go to edit>options and set the image size in pixels you want* > and if you're working with portrait images select rotate clockwise (so > it'll arange them horizontally then you can rotate the image back when > it's > finished) then set jpeg quality to 100. > > then file>open (point it to the folder where the images are.. it's > generally smart enough to find the most useful images it can work > with) then hit start > > the pano.jpg will appear in the directory when it's done. > > > *try setting a small size first to see how it performs > > have a look at the examples on the autostitch site - for freeware it > does an amazing job. > > a review with examples: > http://www.dansdata.com/quickshot031.htm > > > a comment "Autostitch. I've tried using panorama software before, but > was always disappointed. Despite using a tripod and a careful set up, > a lot of photo sets gave poor results. I suppose if I made a career > out of it I could have done better - I know a lot of people obtain > excellent results with existing programs, probably because they put > the time and effort into it. Also, most stitching programs only work > with one vertical or horizontal row. Now, alone comes a program whose > performance not only blows away all other programs, but is the easiest > to use program ever. Simply dump ALL your pictures in a folder, and > put Autostitch to work. It will find all connecting images, be they > rotated or whatever, and make a great looking panorama out of them > with NO manually intervention. It rarely gets confused, can stitch any > number of rows and columns, and can handle an enormous number of pictures. I've heard of it handling up to 60 images!" > from > http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1018&message=12018470 > > > I've recommended this before in PF and noted that > http://www.autopano.net/faq "Autopano Pro is a commercial version of > Autostitch using a licensed professional version of the SIFT algorithm > " - >
