Panorama tools?

[dekadem]

What panorama software you would recommend?
I'd like to know which program Pekka has used creating his panoramaphotos.. Does there come any appropriate program with Canon digicamera?

[Conk]

My camera came with Photostitch 3.1

[john_houghton]

I think Photostitch is bundled with most of the Canon digital cameras. It's capable of giving good results. You can find reviews of other stitching software at panoguide.com (http://www.panoguide.com). Photostitch is not reviewed there but is on the list of things to do. Others you might look at are:
Panorama Factory (freeware version 1.6 available)
Panavue Image Assembler
Photovista

The one I use is Panorama Tools, together with PTGui. Not as easy to use as the others but far more flexible. Generally, it will give more accurate stitching, handle a tilted camera and do multi-row stitching. It will also deliver the final image as a layered Photoshop .psd file with masks, so that minor problems at the seams caused by moving objects and parallax can be easily corrected. There's a tutorial for beginners on my site at my homepage (http://homepage.dtn.ntl.com/j.houghton).

A lot depends on how picky you are. If you exercise reasonable care when taking the photos and don't mind the odd ghost image here and there on occasion, you may well find one of the automatic stitchers perfectly adequate.

John

[madhg]

I tried out several from the panoguide.com and thought that Pixtra had a good combination of ease of use and accurate stitching.

[Conk]

Thanxs for the tutorial page John.:)

[GadgetGeek]

I would recommend Panorama Factory. It might not be as easy to use as the others but it allows you to really "tweak" your "stitches".

Also, if your looking around for reviews, http://www.panoguide.com is a very good place to start.