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barich16cmu

26th of April 2007 (Thu), 09:09

I recently went to Dallas and had a great room for taking a pano of the whole city. I want to stitch it together but the canon software that came with my S2 dont do it for me. It shows too many stitch points. I like autostitch but when overlapping photos, it seems like it puts both pictures at 50% transparency and blurs them together. It does get it lined up well though. My question is, what other good free software is out there that doesnt leave a watermark on your photo? Thanks in advance for all the help I know Ill receive

squashed

26th of April 2007 (Thu), 09:12

PM me if you would like me to do it for you.

barich16cmu

26th of April 2007 (Thu), 09:19

Thanks for the offer but I really want to learn how to do it myself. I just got photoshop which I will eventually end up using once I get experienced enough. I was just looking for a better free program until I get more used to PS.

benarnold

26th of April 2007 (Thu), 11:36

Hi Barich,

I normally use Hugin (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/)with autopano-sift (http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/%7Enowozin/autopano-sift/) to create the points. When I say normally, I mean three times. It seems fairly easy to use though, at least for easy panoramas.

Coincidentally, I came across a link today to a flash based panorama stitcher and viewer, in the vein of the quick time VR panorama viewer. It's called Clevr (http://www.clevr.com/). I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

When you've finished it, let us have a look!

Ben

barich16cmu

26th of April 2007 (Thu), 18:30

Im a little confused with the Hugin. What file do I actually open? I downloaded the zip file and unzipped it and then I got a folder with a ton of files and Im not really sure what one to use.

barich16cmu

26th of April 2007 (Thu), 18:36

I figured it out but I didnt think it produced that good of results. Thanks for the help though.

karcoos

14th of April 2011 (Thu), 00:16

Hugin is free, you can easily find it on google. But, here is what im really gonna say, free doesn't mean the best. I heard AcroPano Panorama software from "photo forum". I am not saying its the best one, but it works so well for me. Choose whatever fits you best.

here is the link
http://www.acropano.com
http://hugin.sourceforge.net

MOkoFOko

14th of April 2011 (Thu), 00:23

There's always canon's free photostitch program... not so great though from what I remember.

eyalg

14th of April 2011 (Thu), 02:12

I like autostitch.
It has a free demo version which needs some configuring (output size and jpg compression level) but other than that does a fine job.

Raizer

14th of April 2011 (Thu), 02:30

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/

tempuraki

18th of April 2011 (Mon), 20:46

I used autostitch for some pictures I took on my trip to Puerto Rico, it did a pretty good job. see results here:

http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/16204232/1/pano?h=6d81f3

katana

19th of April 2011 (Tue), 03:32

You should get excellent results with Hugin. You may need to take the time to tweak a few aspects of the process though. Loads of help online.

annalepage

30th of May 2011 (Mon), 03:47