What is the best software for panoramas?

I am looking to stich some images in order to make them panoramas, I need to know which software besides PS is the best way to stich them.

Any help, guidance and links would be appreciated.

Canon has Photostitch (Came with your camera I think).

Hugin works okay.
PtGui is best, but not free.

maxloxton wrote in post #9657645
I am looking to stich some images in order to make them panoramas, I need to know which software besides PS is the best way to stich them

If you make some research into this subject, you find, that the decent raw image converters are based on a single ancestor: Panorama Tools, created by Helmut Dersch. He dropped the project due to some legal issues in a part of it, but picked it up again. It is developed now by a bunch of enthusiasts; see http://panotools.sourc​eforge.net/

PTGui, PTAssembler, Hugin and whatever else are using more or less from the original core, while it became developed by several teams.

I suggest you to read up on these and give one of them a try. Hugin is free (but it does not run on all machines with all systems, as far as I know) and PTGui is relatively expensive; PTAssembler is much cheaper, it costs $45, I have been using that for years (see http://www.tawbaware.c​om/ptasmblr.htm).

Note, that if you want to create a pano only seldom and/or only if it is not a problem, then you are better off with other, simpler programs, like Photoshop.

CS4 works surprisingly well. File -> automate I think.

well, thanks for you guys advice, I got PTGUI and it worked like a charm. I have created only one panorama as yet but it is superb, I loved the options, would be posting it here soon for you guys.

i have found the automation in photoshop to be better than DPP.

Ditto PanoPeeper's post.

IMHO PtAssembler is the best of the pack today. It is more flexible than the others, the quality of the result is the same or better and is the only one to have some interesting features.

PtAssembler can stack the focus and exposure or both. The others don't do focus-stacking.
PtAssembler has Camara Position Optimization (CPO) allowing a pano with the camera put in different places, ideal to stitch flat surfaces moving the camera along the plane.
And I'm sure it has more.

the best is PTGui. is amazing!!!

Take a look at this freeware from Microsoft Research. Scroll down to Image Composite editor.
This one is really K I S S !!
http://research.micros​oft.com …td=&rt=&f=&a=&p​n=&pa=&pd=


Here's a very new photo:

http://farm4.static.fl​ickr.com …11588029_0365a5​a3b6_b.jpg

right from Bridge in Photoshop:

Tools - Photoshop - Imagemerge

If it's a straight forward pano... Photoshop does an excellent job, imho.

J Bruja wrote in post #10205521
Take a look at this freeware from Microsoft Research. Scroll down to Image Composite editor.
This one is really K I S S !!
http://research.micros​oft.com …td=&rt=&f=&a=&p​n=&pa=&pd=

I've used MS ICE a few times, and it is really fast and very very simple. Can make mistakes though. But it is free! (and simple, did I mention the simplicity?!)

http://research.micros​oft.com …0-4e66-8101-a94e71cb0779/

I use Calico, which is quite inexpensive (around $39.00). The only problem is that it does everything automatically for you. All you do is to "load" the photos into Calico, then check the orientation (from left to right, or right to left), and then click on "create." It will save the pano to the desktop or wherever you choose. The next step is to use PhotoShop or your favorite application to enlarge it and crop to your liking.

I always PP the photos equally first, and then use Calico to stitch them together. Not a big deal, but a sample of Calico's work (it took three minutes to search, load, and create):

Autostich is free and does a great job stitching with no visible seams. It does soften the image a bit but you can correct this with sharpening.

I've had the best luck with Auto Pano Pro. I really like the tools it offers me and has done much better stitching jobs than PS CS4. It's smart-blend tech is pretty cool and really has saved me a few times.