Panorama stiching software

[Rich146]

I am starting to do some panoramas. Photoshop will stitch photos fairly well. I am wondering if some of the other available software works better?? Panoweaver software, anyone try it???

Thanks in advance
Rich Gilman

[_Ronald_Stein_]

In our group, (Photo Club) we have found that the Canon Stitch program seems to work a little better than the Photoshop version. I personally have stitched up to 10 pictures together using this software with little fixing. The scenes blend very well together!! Make sure you overlap at least 20-35 %. Also you should shoot in "M" so our light meter doesn't change on you!!! Very important
Ron Stein

[_Michael_Boon_]

In case anyone is still interested...I've found ptGUI and AutoPano both to be leaps and bounds better than anything else I could find. They are both around 100 euros.

The Canon software is ok for completely standard panoramas (ie exposure doesn't change and horizon runs right across the middle of the images) but if you try to, say, stitch images of a mountain range that is above the horizon, it'll make a curved panorama.

ptGUI offers a lot of manual control and great results if you're prepared to put some time in.

Autopano is ridiculously automated. It even finds the panoramas for you. I've only used it on about 15 panoramas but I've yet to find anything it can't do.

Both ptGUI and Autopano will export photos in layers to PSDs, so you can blend by hand if you want to.

(As a side note, I had no luck at all with Photoshop (CS1) panorama stitching. It made a garbled mess of my images.)

[qu1j0t3]

There's also Hugin, I'm currently trying out. But why is this thread in the SDK forum??