Yep Panorama Tools, and PT Assembler, and Blender, and AutoPano SIFT, and all the other programs that PT assembler needs to run. Spend about a week figuring out how to configure it all. and Then you can make perfect panoramas in 1 click.
Oh it's still long and painful though. Especially the blender application maxes out my 2gb of ram almost instantly when working on a 10mpx image.
Runs about $80, you can import all your pics adjust the setting and click ok. It does a decent job usually. I had one recently though that never came out very well with it or with PS, but I didn't use a tripod. It was kind of spur of the moment kind of thing, and I did it better by hand than either program did. Took a Loooooong time though. 99% of the time, this program works pretty well especially if you use a tripod. Takes a while for it to churn out though if you have several images.
Comp is fine, i have 4gb of ram and 2,4ghz x 4... Should be fine.
So far i tried PanaVue Image Assembler and a quick handheld pano, although greatly reduced in size since im on my laptop now. It worked great even though i left everyhting on auto.
Have you guys tried it? How does it compare to other soft?
It would be awesome if you wrote that you tried different progs and the ones you chose, instead of "i use this" this way everyone interested can decide which program not to use.
I know I'm late, but I use Hugin as the frontend with auto-pano sift. I haven't had problems other that poor exposures on my first, and the software can't fix that
I would suggest trying Photoshop again. Sounds like you are doing it manually which is painful. Go to the file menu then to automate and select photomerge.
You will be amazed! Select the type of effect you want, I use the reposition one, browse for the photos you want to stitch together, arrange them in the right order, click ok and your done.
It awesome!
Would it be worth adding this information to the article on making panoramas, along with correcting the common error about the 'nodal point' instead of the entrance pupil?