I've had this on my PC for some time now...and as an ex pro photographer I'm not the most easy person to impress...but this program really did the job for me on number of occasions. I've used PS as well...this is easier by far.

It has got limitations though...all programs have...but you shouldn't have any problems. One of the limitations is the number of images you can join together, so...join up some shots, save them to a folder, do the same with the rest of your shots ( so you have small "groups" ) then join the groups....if that makes sense...Sorry I cant explain it better right now...blame the throbbing migraine :-/

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Installed and activated on windows 10.
Entered a batch of photos (New York from the roof of the Rockefeller Center) which produced an excellent panorama in the free Microsoft ICE.
Oh dear! After several minutes of processing PhotoStitcher returned a small black square!
Microsoft ICE can do in seconds what PhotoStitcher can't do at all.

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m, It's very easy to find and available direct from Microsoft, so it's legit.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/

m, It's very easy to find and available direct from Microsoft, so it's legit. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/
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drake tarafından yorumlandı  –  10 years ago  –  Bu yorumu yararlı buldunuz mu? evet | hayır (+14)

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This program was offered almost a year ago so I won't reprise the GOTD comment I made then. My concerns remain: that the hype for PhotoStitcher 1.6 is more appropriate for an image assembler, as distinct from an image stitcher. About the only thing I can think an image assembler might do is put together several images as a mosaic. This, however, is promoted as software which "smoothly combines photos of different resolutions, shooting angles and even different perspectives into one perfect panorama."

So far, so good. Until it's appreciated, that those photographs need to have the same focal length. Need to have been taken under the same lighting conditions and approximate time of day. And, despite the developer's blurb, were shot from the same perspective. Because if they weren't, then this software won't deliver what is promised . . . because no software ever could.

Apart from anything else, you'd need to post-process the output to correct verticals as well as figure out how to resolve disproportionate representation of an image element due to the camera having originally zoomed out, or in.
So unless you're using $800sworth of Adobe software in the manner I did to deal with the this-way-that-way shadows and skewed verticals and disproportionate image features arising from zoom length variations, then no, you ain't going to manufacture a 'perfect panorama' from a random collection of uni-locational pictures. (And even if you do go the full Adobe route, and hire in an Art Studio to do the work, you still won't succeed.)

I don't blame Teorex for trying. This once buoyant software sector was comprehensively undermined by camera manufacturers who incorporated a 'panoramic' shooting feature as standard on even the cheapest cameras, and was then demolished by Microsoft's freeware ICE, which I also highlighted a year ago so won't bother talking about now. All I will say is that Microsoft -- of whom, as is well known, I am anything but a fan -- has never made the claims that Teorex does.

That said: I can't see any reason why anyone should not download and try out today's offer so long as she or he doesn't believe everything that's claimed for it in its marketing hype. Indeed: if by some small miracle you have finished up with a number of shots which are consistent each with the other in terms of lighting, perspective and focal length, then you may well find this out-performs ICE. Or, er, not. Either way, Teorex has come up with a useful tool in the post-processing kit; whether or not the re-install price is worth the $ is something only the individual GOTDer can ultimately decide.

Bottom line: if you're looking to create panoramas that are visually satisfying by virtue of their visual integrity, then always but always remember that the creation process starts with the taking of the pictures themselves. Thinking that a bundle of shots taken without thought of panoramic integration can afterwards be pulled together into a satisfyingly accurate image is to believe in a wizardry best left to Tolkien.

MikeR tarafından yorumlandı  –  10 years ago  –  Bu yorumu yararlı buldunuz mu? evet | hayır (+29)

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Well I followed all the instructions, activated the program, all good. Added 3 photos to stitch, clicked Stitch and the programed disappeared. Tried again but this time with only 2 pictures and clicked Stitch and once again the programme disappeared. Tried the 3 pictures again but this time I used Microsoft Ice and no problems. Tried using Acropano Photo Stitcher and no problems. Tried once more Photostitcher and again it disappeared. Now this time this program is going to disappear. Used uninstall and guess what? It disappeared.

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