Panorama Making Programs - MyPhotoSoft Rating
January 8, 2008
In the series of reviews we analysed and compared 8 panorama making programs. Each of them offers the user automatic, semiautomatic and manual ways of aligning, stitching and blending a panorama made of a set of photos. The material for testing was a set of photos taken with a Canon Powershot G6 camera, without a tripod. You can see the original images below.
PTAssembler
December 18, 2007
One of the widespread and talked about pano makers is PT Assembler - an interface bringing together a set of panorama editing programs. Pt Assembler is the most manual oriented program of all I reviewd in this series. Thus organized it should be very attractive for professionals, or just people with profound experience in panorama stitiching. For amateurs and beginners like me Pt Assembler may become a complicated riddle. but let us have a better look.
The PT Assembler workflow has 5 steps. Every step is explained to some point by the help screen appearing automatically at every opening of the program and every step change until you cancel it.
Panorama Studio
December 11, 2007
Panorama Studio - another panorama stitching program with a wide span of automatic functions plus access to manual fine tuning. The program can export ready panoramas to both simple image formats and online (Java, QuickTime), can add hot links so useful for online publication and video tours, and can print multi-page panoramas as posters.
We’ve tested the workflow and results of the program here. [Read more]
Autopano Pro
December 2, 2007
Autopano Pro is a program, as its title suggests, that intends to make the panorama making process as automatic as possible. The success of such intention can be provided by good planning and appropriate settings.
You can plan starting from the import of images. The images can be chosen manually or you can specify a folder and Autopano Pro will automatically check it for panoramic images at every opening. You set the guidelines for it though through a browse folder dialogue window.
PhotoVista Panorama
November 20, 2007
I’m writing here about Photovista Panorama 3.0 and not about the last updated version of the program because there’s no trial period for the most modern business version and my request for an evaluation copy had no answer. According to the list of features found on the iSee Media site version 3.0 is little different in performance from the last update.
Panorama Composer by Firmtools
November 12, 2007
The Panorama Composer by Firmtools is an extremely easy way to produce your Panoramas. The built in algorythm aligns and stitchies the photos and can also adjust their overall quality if told to do so.
The flash based interface is as simple as simple can be. You have three steps to go through: open images, set correct order and rotate if needed. After that everything is done automatically and you only have to save the resulted panorama in one of the offered formats. [Read more]
Panorama Factory
November 1, 2007
The Panorama Factory by Smoke Sity Design is one of the number of panorama creating programs. It allows creating of cyllindric and spherical panoramas, has a fine tuning option, and auto and fully manual modes.
The interface of the program and the workflow are not too complex and allow all kinds of users to create perfect panorama images. For perfect images auto mode is useful, more complex images can benefit from manual mode.
The workflow is organized in two modes. You can run a wisard that will walk you through in steps and give you clues for what to do at each of them. Once got used to the program you’ll be able to do on your own in the usuall and more traditional way with classic interface. the Panorama Factory help also has step by step instruction for this interface.
Arcsoft Panorama Maker Pro
October 24, 2007
Arcsoft Panorama Maker Pro is an image stiching program automatically producing seemless panoramas which can be used for sharing, printing, or sending to a webpage. It works both under Windows and Mac (Mac doesn’t support raw format at the point).
The program interface and workflow are extremely uncomplicated and intuitive. Every workflow step and required action is either obvious or explained by pictograms and pictures.
The workflow is organized in stages with every action having a separate screen. Thus you have few controls in each of the screens and all the controls refer exactly to the action you are to perform at the moment. This makes the program absolutely clear and understandable.
ADG Panorama Pro
October 13, 2007
ADG Panorama Pro is quite a powerful tool for panorama creation. It can produce good images in automatic regime with minimal manual fine tuning.
The Interface of the program is completely self explanatory and very simple. All necessary funcions are put at the top bar as pictograms. All the control is given to the mouse and hot keys. No sliders or number boxes are involved.