Anyone use PanoramaPlus?

mwgrice

Anyone used PanoramaPlus? I've also been monkeying around with hugin.

gus

No but i would also be interested in any info users can offer. I really suck at photoshop & if i can get a programme to stitch then i would buy it. I know a few exist but need to know how good they are.

Destructo-Bot

Look at AutoStitch... many panorama programs are based off of it. Autostitch is free to download from the authors website and it does a absolutely wonderful job: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

mwgrice

Destructo-Bot wrote:

Look at AutoStitch... many panorama programs are based off of it. Autostitch is free to download from the authors website and it does a absolutely wonderful job: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

I should have given a little more info--PanoramaPlus is a commercial product made using technology licensed from the authors of Autostitch.

The demo looks like it's crippled in a few ways, and I don't mind spending money on a decent product.

Although I'd probably better spend a little money on RAM before I do many more panoramas.:D

Kingsgraphic

PanoramaPlus

mwgrice wrote:

Anyone used PanoramaPlus? I've also been monkeying around with hugin.

Yes, I used the free demo, was impressed, bought the commercial package from Serif. A hint. If you 'phone-up to register the demo version you get a lot of sales pitch from a telesales girl. If you hint that you don't want to buy the upgrade there and then, she'll 'talk to her supervisor' and come back with a substantial money-off offer (with a full money back-keep the software anyway-no questions asked guarantee!!)
But the software. I've used PanaVue (curiously also a Canadian based bit of software) which I thought was good. I input a series of tricky shots into PanoramaPlus that PanaVue was having trouble with. I got superb alignment and blending without any settings tweaks (you can't with the demo anyway) but the only drawback with the demo is a limited resolution output file.
Hope this helps.
Tony

dbd

My Selection
Early this year I spent a few weeks evaluating the then available stitching software. I had sequences of images from three cameras: a Pentax 43wr, a Canon S2 and an Olympus E-500. All of my pictures were handheld or standard panhead tripod mounted, no special panoramaic tripod head. The most difficult sets were the more distorted wide angle shots and the images with most of the area taken up by sand or sky with little detail. My selection was PTGui. When everything went well it was easy, and when things got tough if was capable with some effort.

Examples:
43wr:
http://dbdimages.smugmug.com/gallery/1486688/3/75405690
S2:
http://dbdimages.smugmug.com/gallery/1562859/1/71168553
E-500:
http://dbdimages.smugmug.com/gallery/1782681/1/88654568

My real recomendation is this: start with a group of image sets that represent the range of types of images you expect to stitch, Stitch them all with each candidate and review each stitch at the highest available resolution. If any candidate makes that too hard to do, there's a reason to elimanate that candidate without seeing it's stitching quality.

Dale B. Dalrymple
http://dbdimages.com