What Is The Best Photo Stitching Software?

[SkyHighPhotographs]

What do you find to be the best photo stitching software out there, either free or fee based?

Many thanks.

Mark

 

[Yahoozy]

gotta go with CS3 hahah
you can stitch together panos that you handhold, all automatically, or manually if u so choose

 

[ann]

last year i tested quite a few programs including PSCS2 with a couple of very difficult panos.

panorama plus from Serif did the best j ob, it was listed on auto stitch site indicating that they had a liscense to use their software which is very powerful.

it wasn't very expensive which was a plus.

 

[SpunkyKid]

gotta go with CS3 hahah
you can stitch together panos that you handhold, all automatically, or manually if u so choose

Totally have to agree that CS3 is one of the best.

 

[Overread]

hmm Panorama Plus (version 3 now) looks to be a limited application software, but also as its limited very powerful software - if you were making panoramas a lot I would choose this for the stitching.

However Photoshop Elements 7 also introduces a decent panorama stitching feature - along with its host of other editing freatures I would say this is one of the better budget editing programs.

After that there is Paint Shop pro X2 (PSP11) which has a layered stitching feature (allows you to stitch together several different shots of the same scene - for HDR photos). and is also at a decent budget:
demo here: http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1184951547051

After all that though if you have the money for photoshop the full version then go for it

 

[dEARlEADER]

Even ps elements 6 does great pano's

 

[Overread]

hehe Thanks for that
yah - elements 6 -

 

[SBlanca]

the only program i've used for this is the canon one provided with my camera, but im guessing photoshop is better

 

[ann]

yes panaroma plus 3 is a stand alone program, sorry i didn't mention that.

if you are really doing a lot of pano's then i wuoild suggest using it; however, if you only do a few or only on occasion then i would sugget getting a program that provides more editing features.

 

[Alex_B]

Panorama Studio is what I use occasionally. for single row panoramas it is very good.

 

[SkyHighPhotographs]

Many thanks, I really appreciate these tips, excellent, again, thank you so much!

Kindest regards.

Mark

 

[Uglulyx Takes Photos Too]

They only get lazier as you go up. You can do anything in Elements 4 that you can in CS 3. It just takes longer and more knowlege.

 

[astrostu]

Granted I haven't used Photoshop's panorama stitching script since CS1, but it was HORRIBLE for my purposes - mainly because it did not in anyway account for spherical aberration by lenses.

So I went out and found RealViz's "Stitcher" software. That was alright, but it got to the point where it couldn't handle some of the stuff I threw at it. Then I found AutopanoPro, which I think is a wonderful bit of software. I have only had one instance where it didn't do a good job, and that was before I actually learned how to help it by manually giving it alignment points. I highly recommend it.

 

[KevinPutman]

Copy, Paste, Free transform,

CS5 =p

 

[analog.universe]

Hugin is a nice free one that I've used with good results. Quite a lot of options, and any level of auto/manual control. Pretty sure it runs on every operating system by now as well.