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BennyR
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p.1 #1 · Panorama software

Sorry, I'm sure this has been discussed many times. I'm looking for the best software for stitching panoramas together. CS3 seems OK but I bet there's better.

What are the latest suggestions?

Thanks.

Aug 04, 2008 at 02:38 PM

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p.1 #2 · Panorama software

Depends what you are using it for. The two I am most familiar with are below.

For 360 deg panos: PTGui
For high res mosaics: PTAssembler

Both are essentially just front-ends for the classic Panorama Tools which was command-line and very complex. People seem to love both of them. Both have exposure blending capabilities these days, and I know PTAssembler can also do focus blending.

You can start looking at both of those as well as panoguide.com.

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Aug 04, 2008 at 04:50 PM

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p.1 #3 · Panorama software

Have a look at autopano pro, they have a fully functional trial. I really like it, if you spend a bit of time learning the program you have huge amounts of control at your fingertips. When people say that PTGui is better methinks they have never learned the functionality of Autopano Pro.

Aug 04, 2008 at 05:10 PM

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p.1 #4 · Panorama software

I have autopano and Photoshop CS3.

Aug 04, 2008 at 05:22 PM

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p.1 #5 · Panorama software

Don't kmow about the others, but PTGUI lets you do it simply and pretty much automatically but can be overidden manually for more sophisticated results. Also does HDR and has a very generous upgrade policy.

Aug 04, 2008 at 06:51 PM

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p.1 #6 · Panorama software

Thanks to all of you. I just downloaded Autopano and am playing with it. Looks great as soon as I figure a few things out.

Aug 04, 2008 at 07:07 PM

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p.1 #7 · Panorama software

these panos here www.spfoto.co.uk are all done either with cs3 or the more complicated blend shots with autopano.

simon

Aug 04, 2008 at 07:22 PM

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p.1 #8 · Panorama software

Looks great guys. That Autopano is great. Takes a while to render though doesn't it?

Aug 05, 2008 at 02:03 AM

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p.1 #9 · Panorama software

I like Autopano. It takes a while to render but even when shooting handheld the results are excellent.

Aug 05, 2008 at 02:27 AM

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p.1 #10 · Panorama software

BennyR wrote:
Sorry, I'm sure this has been discussed many times. I'm looking for the best software for stitching panoramas together. CS3 seems OK but I bet there's better.

What are the latest suggestions?

I would expect someone to have mentioned Hugin.

Aug 06, 2008 at 12:58 AM

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p.1 #11 · Panorama software

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Sep 14, 2008 at 02:40 PM


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