![]() Thanks GAOTD, but no thanks: the re-install cost is always a major consideration in any free one-day offer and at $100 Photo Stitcher is monumentally over-priced. It may possibly represent better value at $50 but its repeated crashes here mean I haven't been able to test its vertical stitching - a potentially attractive feature - and so there's no alternative but to uninstall. ![]() It may possibly be that some element of this software is in conflict with some element of my computer's configuration but as everything else is working just fine I'm not going to waste yet more time trying to suss out what's gone wrong when ICE is working just fine and Arcsoft, too. Three successive attempts to save the output caused the program to close. I never did get to see a finished panorama. The finished panorama - showing at 12% of image size in preview - looked OK but only a 100% viewing of the output, not the preview, would ultimately confirm or otherwise this program's capabilities. Certainly it was slower to analyze and stitch but that wouldn't be a deal breaker. It passed the test quickly and easily.Īll pano software works in similar fashion and today's is highly reminiscent of Arcsoft's - so much so, that I ran it in a head to head with the Arcsoft Panorama Maker. One image was deliberately misnumbered to test the software's content recognition capability. I have a stock of images previously used for pano experiments so threw nine 3648 x 2736 at Photo Stitcher and asked it to auto sequence them. (And no, ignore the purists who harp on about why png is better or bmp: unless you're doing exhibition photography, working with jpegs is just fine.) I've worked with panorama software for years and have generally found that a maximum of nine images is quite sufficient using out-of-camera shots taken in 4:3 format (NOT widescreen) at jpeg file sizes of up to 4Mb per image. Whether it's Arcsoft's proven commercial offering, or Microsoft's excellent freeware, or Open Source's long established Hugins, the quality of output will always depend on the quality of input. No context sensitive help at all is also an irritant because even though AcroPano PhotoStitcher is reasonably intuitive, at $100 or even $50 one might have expected the developer to invest a lot more user assistance features instead of a single F1 link to an external page. ![]() So-oo.ĭL'd and installed without a fuss but the initial encounter, very disappointing compared to established commercial rival Arcsoft, which simply opens a picture folder and intelligently populates from there. Previous versions of today's program have been criticized for being buggy but I hadn't expected to encounter problems with the latest iteration: though the 'normal' retail of $99 is blatantly preposterous in a software sector as crowded as this, the developer must presumably entertain reasonable hopes of sales at the current reduced sticker price of $50. ![]() However, Apple fanboys might love it for the fancy GUI. Alternatively, stitch and balance in MsICE and transform in Hugin. If you want to control your projection (and you don't like spherical or cylindrical), go for Hugin. If MsICE fails at stitching your image, go to Hugin and define some control points. If you want to quickly stitch your panoramas together, grab the free Microsoft Image Composite Editor. The GUI is focused on the cool-effect (gradients and such), but lacks most functionality. ICE does.Ĭannot extract from video-capture (nor does Hugin, however). IIRC, it doesn't perform exposure balancing. ICE and Hugin can both handle that easily. You can't fix the horizon either.Īny support for multi-line panoramas. Multiple Stitching Mode: - supports Horizontal, Vertical, 360 HorizontalĪny post-edits. I'm wondering what "BMP with different image quality" means, or who the hell uses BMP nowadays anyways. ![]() Supported output formats and sizes: export panoramas in JPEG (JPG), BMP, TIFF (TIF), PNG or TGA format with different image quality. Where this one fails, Hugin can still stitch manually. Intelligent photo organizing: - I've encountered a bug in this feature that if you don't use it, the program crashes (null pointer exception, I think)Īutomatic photo stitching: - ICE can do that as well Hugin can do that as well. I've got this piece of software in a previous giveaway. ![]()
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