pano software

[heffsarmy]

I just won an auction on ebay for a kaidan pano head, want to get some good software, was looking at 'realviv sticher' but it fairly expensive, can someone guide me to a cheaper software package which produces just as good results...

[quadphoto]

As you now have a Kaidan pano head you will be able to get perfectly aligned Pano's, even a basic stitching programe like Canon Photostitch would do a good job, or for £25 Ulead Cool360 will give good results, also try stitching your pano's manually in photoshop.

This Pano was taken hand held and stitched in Canon Photostitch. Quadphoto.

[heffsarmy]

Cheers thanks for the reply, can't wait to get me hands on this pano head.

[mdr]

You can try PTAssembler from TambaWare for a month for free. It's shareware so pretty cheap if you like it. If gives you all the manual controls for stitching.

[Jesper]

I also have PTAssembler (http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm), it's not really expensive ($39) and works really well.

If you have Photoshop: it also has a built-in tool for stitching images (at least PS CS has, it's probably also available in other versions).

[sadanorakman]

I love the simplicity of autostitch (www.autostitch.net) and it does an absolutely cracking job, especially of blending the colour variations on things like the sky in the shot above.

[heffsarmy]

Thanks for the replies, just myself a copy of realviz stitcher 4 for 25dollars of ebay, now thats a bargain

[TonyKInTexas]

I use the LAST freeware version of PTAssembler with PanoTools and get wonderful panoramas.