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Title: image stitching program
Post by: stockastic on December 01, 2010, 21:18: What's a good FREE image stitching program?
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Post by: luissantos84 on December 01, 2010, 22:47: Hugin
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Post by: pancaketom on December 01, 2010, 23:06: autostitch if it is still available for free. (they were threatening to make it pay at some point in the future). I mostly use PS now as it generally works better for me.

sometimes it works well, sometimes not at all. I think hugin will work more often, but when autostitch works well it is quick and easy.
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Post by: travelstock on December 02, 2010, 00:29: +1 Hugin
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Post by: stockastic on December 02, 2010, 09:52: thanks all!
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Post by: RacePhoto on December 03, 2010, 19:49: Quote from: stockastic on December 01, 2010, 21:18
What's a good FREE image stitching program?

Here's an interesting download site:

http://www.photo-freeware.net/image-editing.php (http://www.photo-freeware.net/image-editing.php)

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Panorama Tools
CleVR Stitcher
Simple to use panorama stitcher for beginners ...more info
Pos Panorama Pro
Helps creating stunning panorama pictures ...more info
Microsoft ICE
Powerful and easy to use application for creating panorama pictures ...more info
Pano2QTVR
Creates *.mov files for Apple Quicktime of panorama photos ...more info
Panorama Perfect Lite
Helps creating professional panoramic pictures ...more info
PhotoPaster
Little panorama tool for merging two pictures into one single image ...more info
WPanorama
Special viewer tool with focus on panorama images ...more info
AutoStitch
Powerful and very easy to use panorama stiching tool ...more info
Panorado Applet
Adds panorama applets to web based image galleries ...more info
Panorama Factory
Genius stitching tool for creating panoramas or 360 degrees pictures ...more info
ADG Panorama Tools
Stitcher Tool with possibilities to create 360 degrees images ...more info

Microsoft Ice works nice but part of the license says not for commercial use?
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Post by: madelaide on December 03, 2010, 20:34: I do my stitches manually, but years ago I tried a few sharewares and I found this was excellent: PhotoFit (http://www.photofit4panorama.com/). It did a very good job adjusting exposure to make images match well.

I have just tried Autostitch with some series I shot in Argentina, and the result was basically ok, but exposure was not very even. Can it be used for commercial purposes? It seems to me that they should be credited.
Title: Re: image stitching program
Post by: stockastic on December 03, 2010, 22:25: I only want to do this once in a great while, so the software has to be free.

I have Photoshop Elements and found it has a stitching function. It's very flexible, controllable and did a perfect job - but reduced my images to about 25% of their original size, and I can't seem to override that.