Best program for Panoramic stitching

slothmeister · 16 Sep 2008 at 18:35

Hi guys, i've taken a few panoramic photo's today and would like to stitch them together, what's the best program to use?

SilverPenguin · 16 Sep 2008 at 19:35

I love autopano pro. I used a couple in the past including photoshop but autopano seems to be the most accurate and simple to use for my liking.

greengiant · 16 Sep 2008 at 19:48

Hugin!

hugin.sourceforge.net

SilverPenguin · 16 Sep 2008 at 19:55

greengiant said:
Hugin!

hugin.sourceforge.net

That looks nice. Although I don't think I could be botehred with choosing all my stitch points. Thats why I like AP, you just feed the images in and it does everything. The time from selecting your images to it rendering your image can be as little as 20 seconds depending on how many images your using.

slothmeister · 16 Sep 2008 at 20:48

thanks very much guys, just tried autopano and it worked extremely well, so looks like thats the one for me.

Mint_Sauce · 17 Sep 2008 at 00:43

PTGui is the very best imo.

AtlanticP · 17 Sep 2008 at 11:14

I have used SmokyCities Panoramic Factory with excellent results. Also has the ability to make Quicktime VR movies as well.

balls · 17 Sep 2008 at 12:13

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

I use autostitch an awesome light weight program thats implemented in many others... but its free

robmiller · 17 Sep 2008 at 16:05

SilverPenguin said:
I love autopano pro. I used a couple in the past including photoshop but autopano seems to be the most accurate and simple to use for my liking.

+1 for Autopano Pro. It's awesome at figuring out everything automatically, and Smartblend is scarily good.

SilverPenguin · 17 Sep 2008 at 16:14

robmiller said:
+1 for Autopano Pro. It's awesome at figuring out everything automatically, and Smartblend is scarily good.

Yes...smartblend is fantastic! I did a 6 shot pano of the inside of the Miami Dolphins stadium whilst in Florida and so had players and foreground crowd members in slightly different positions between shots...smartblend figured it all out and so it looks like one shot with no doubled up people or ghosting :cool:

domthecondom · 17 Sep 2008 at 16:48

Penguin, can you show us that shot?

King4aDay · 17 Sep 2008 at 16:50

I think I must be some kind of masochist, I always do mine by hand

No idea why...

SilverPenguin · 17 Sep 2008 at 16:58

I'll post it up once its been processed properly. I've only done a quick test stitch in low quality jpegs to make sure it was worth doing a top quality render. I'll pop it up once I get round to sorting it out.

King, you is insaaaane! lol