Stitching software

[Norfolkaston]

Can anyone recommend a good photo stitching software please? I have Aperture from Apple but this doesn't have this facility. Many thanks in advance.

[GFWilliams]

http://tinyurl.com/3wamy5z

[LongQ]

Loads of stuff around from simple and usually effective for a single row to more complex programss that will happily attempt to work out how many shots they can stitch from a folder you point them at. And do multi-row stitches.

You could try Hugin. It seems to cover the entire range. I recently used it to stitch a multi-row set of a live cricket match. I dealt with all the 'ghosts' caused my player movement except one. That one was no surprise as the player's position was quite different in two frames and he was facing completely opposite ways. I was surprised that the programmer had not made the application 'sport and player count aware' - but I think the application comes from Italy, or at least somewhere in southern europe, so perhaps not surprising that it allowed the anomaly.




Kolor do a couple of useful apps as well - Autopano for example - but they are pay for iirc and to some extent aimed at people seeking fully automated panorama shooting options.

ETA; I can't recall if the apps mentioned above have Apple versions - think they probably do.

Edited by LongQ on Thursday 22 September 17:14

[Rich K]

I use this autostitch
It's simple and gives pretty good results.
the photos were all taken hand held and overlaping approx 33%

3 pics in a row


4 or 5 pics in a row


4 or 5 pics in a row


around 15 pics in 3 rows (experimenting with the power of Autostitch)

[gary71]

I have Photoshop CS5 and it does a cracking job, although I'm sure there are cheaper alternatives for just stitching!

7 Pictures:


Jungfraujoch Station by Suggs, on Flickr

27 Pictures for a full 360 This gave the computer something to think about! It took 40 minutes to create this one.. But it's right first time with no further editing and even managed to join the car up correctly which was spread over 3 photos.


Susten Pass Panorama by Suggs, on Flickr

[Norfolkaston]

Thanks for the recommendations - that's very helpful. I like the Susten Pass picture!

[RobDickinson]

I used to use autostich, works well, simple, limited though, no raw, no hdr, no masking etc.

I bought PT Gui pro after trying it out vs gigapixel software.


Superb bit of software.

[gary71]

Norfolkaston said:

I like the Susten Pass picture!

Thanks Both these will soon be on the wall! The Susten pass one will be 70" wide

[RobDickinson]

I've never had much success with photoshop stitching. Sometimes it works and its WOW, 90% of the time it produces some absolute garbage.

I'm probably doing it wrong tho.

[Whitefly Swatter]

RobDickinson said:

I've never had much success with photoshop stitching. Sometimes it works and its WOW, 90% of the time it produces some absolute garbage.

I'm probably doing it wrong tho.

make sure you allow at least 30% overlap and shoot multiple rows, I made one of these

pano1 by bobshepherdphotography, on Flickr
and stitch using AutoStitch, Microsoft ICE and Photoshop, they all produce something slightly different

more examples here http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobshepherd/sets/7215...

[gary71]

RobDickinson said:

I've never had much success with photoshop stitching. Sometimes it works and its WOW, 90% of the time it produces some absolute garbage.

I'm probably doing it wrong tho.

I set CS5 to 'auto' and not to correct geometric distortion.

The Susten pass shot was set up carefully on a levelled tripod with the camera vertical then a shot every 10 degs on the scale. Another row above and below would have been nice in hindsight, but I can't go back and do it again