Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit system.

A (Russian) company without name and address, focusing on photo manipulation and removing unwanted objects, regularly participating here with good products.

My comment for version 1.5 (January 21st) is still valid:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/photostitcher-1-5/

This program has a serious flaw. Panorama means adding several pictures to a combined image. That said, the program should always open the last directory. But it does always return to the default picture directory. Absolute no-go! You have every time, you want to add something to search the directory structure to find your pictures again. In my case : D:>Photo>2008>10>13 …

And then… you should be able to save the photo selection for further operations. No, you have to add all the photos every time again.

Okay, once added the photo, you choose the distortion – if you know what this means. Flat, cylindric, fish-eye. The rest is done automatically.

This works for simple tasks, but is not sufficient for a really good result. One should be able to define the control points by hand, define an average brightness and much more.

A simple photostitcher with an absolutely unsufficient interface…

I have made a sample, so you can see it for yourself:

http://www1.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=17029002
http://www1.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=21089668
http://www1.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=91360645
http://www1.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=14986861
http://www1.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=12749237


The examples on their side are carefully selected to produce a good result.
Uninstalled via reboot.

Karl  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+119)

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Sadly, I misunderstood what this actually was, I thought it was for making a collage.... no wonder the photos I selected did not work. OK, my bad... but I'll take some photos in the morning, a 360 degree panorama of a local scenic spot and see what this can do.

Please don't base your opinion on my first post, at times, when I am tired, I can be an idiot. :)

kiwi1960  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+73)

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I prefer Hugin or MS Image Composite Editor:

* both Hugin and ICE are freeware
* this lacks an auto-crop feature
* The progress bar is really unhelpful here. It's just a linear spinner. Hugin's progress is very easy to track, and even ICE shows actual percentage for each step.
* It feels really slow and it hogs up all resources while stitching. ICE takes a while as well, but Hugin is really fast.
* It asks for the projection before it even starts stitching. ICE makes an intelligent guess, and so does Hugin. Hugin has a lot more projection options. ICE has spherical and cylindrical only. This has a few, but it seems to lack vertical-type projections.
* It just flat out crashed during my second test. I guess it's because I chose the planar projection for a panorama that's wider than 180 degrees.
* Hugin lets you set up positive and negative masks for each image, meaning you won't end up having the same tourist in two places or someone important left out.
* ICE supports video panoramas with positive per-frame masks (masks for image panoramas are strangely missing)
* Where others flat out give up, produce parallax effect, or just for an artistic effect, Hugin still lets you set up control points manually.

As far as ease of use is concerned, the built-in panorama capabilities of the camera I use flat out win. You know instantly if you need to take another scan, you don't have to ensure overlap while shooting, the parallax effects are less pronounced, and it's easier on the memory if that's what you're worried about. The resulting resolution is sub-par, but I guess other cameras don't have that issue (feature?).

Honnza  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+62)

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This is the BEST FREE stitcher I know of.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/
I use it all the time and it has updates. Very good software.

Tony Bennett  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+45)

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#2, kiwi1960: Don't feel bad, many of us can be idiots even when we're not tired ;-)

Litemotif  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+37)

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