It does tend to produce a proportion of badly placed points that have to be weeded out though, so it isn't perfect. If you have many images, particularly when arranged in multiple rows, AutoPano can be very useful in automating the process of assigning the control points identifying matching features in the overlaps. See my page at which were all taken without a tripod and stitched with Panorama Tools + PTGui.Īutopano and Enblend are programs that can be used stand-alone or invoked from PTAssembler or PTGui. For very near scenes such as interior shots, a tripod should be used, with the camera mounted with the nodal point of the lens over the pivot. While using a tripod is always a good idea, it's not actually essential for landscapes, where there is little or no risk of parallax. The present demo version doesn't permit much manual control or handle masses of different file formats (just jpg!) but is certainly worth trying out of interest if nothing else.Ĭharles. Even so, by following tutorials you can get a perfect stitch done in half-an-hour or so at the first attempt.Īnother new (currently free) program that can give extremely good results and quickly is AutoStitch from. The snag is that Pano Tools does require an investment of time to learn how to get the best out of it, but it then becomes easy and rewarding. Only the last two of these are freeware, PanoWizard being a newcomer and is nowhere near as fully featured as the others. As has been pointed out, you do need one of the gui programs to front-end it: PTGui, PTAssembler, PTMac, Hugin and PanoWizard.

Surprisingly, the cheapest stitching software is by far the most versatile and will deliver results of very high quality, viz.

It is then relatively easy to adjust the routing of the seams to hide or disguise stitching errors and get truly seamless results with almost any images. A few stitchers can output the final panorama image as a layered PSD Photoshop file.

No automatic stitcher will guarantee seamless stitching when confronted by serious parallax errors (from a hand held camera, perhaps) or by objects moving about between shots (like people, vehicles, trees and clouds). Even more stitchers don't allow you to angle the camera upwards or downwards but insist that it be kept level, which is restricting. Many stitchers don't do well with wide angle lenses, which as often as not suffer from significant barrel distortion. Charles, Canon's PhotoStitch is bundled with many of their cameras and is on a par with many of the other automatic stitchers.

Canon photo stitching program