Panorama Software

[rogleale]

What software do you use to make panoramas? Photomerge, Panotools? Now you will have to try the new kid on the block. From Microsoft, and free, called Microsoft Image Composite Editor, or ICE, down loadable from HERE

To me it seemed like magic. I have posted two unfinished panos straight from the stitching process and only sharpened, no other adjustments done. Hand held with no planning carried out, which explains the poor framing, and both are two tier panos. The cliff one is two rows of four, the beach, two rows of six.

So simple! Open the ICE programme, drop the RAW pano image elements into the window, and wait. The cliff pano was produced in 10 seconds, and the beach in 20 secs, they both took longer to save as jpegs than to produce. There is some serious processing going on in there!





I am very impressed by the speed of processing, but also by the quality of the blending, although I am sure that some retouching may be needed for the final product.

Lets have some comments!

Roger

[Patrick]

Re: Panorama Software

What software do you use to make panoramas? Photomerge, Panotools? Now you will have to try the new kid on the block. From Microsoft, and free, called Microsoft Image Composite Editor, or ICE, down loadable from HERE

To me it seemed like magic. I have posted two unfinished panos straight from the stitching process and only sharpened, no other adjustments done. Hand held with no planning carried out, which explains the poor framing, and both are two tier panos. The cliff one is two rows of four, the beach, two rows of six.

So simple! Open the ICE programme, drop the RAW pano image elements into the window, and wait. The cliff pano was produced in 10 seconds, and the beach in 20 secs, they both took longer to save as jpegs than to produce. There is some serious processing going on in there!





I am very impressed by the speed of processing, but also by the quality of the blending, although I am sure that some retouching may be needed for the final product.

Lets have some comments!

Roger

Program looks impressive, I will give it a try.

Panorama software I have found can vary enormously, I often use PTGui or Photoshop, interestingly I have had images that that were unsuccessful in PTGui but very Photoshop. By the same token failures in Photoshop while PTGui did the job beautifully.

Patrick

[Ian]

Re: Panorama Software

Very interesting Roger, thanks for sharing!

Ian

[rogleale]

Re: Panorama Software

Been playing around with ICE, and it could well be that it won't be so fast on many older machines. It has been designed by MS to make full use of multi-core processors, and on my Phenom ll x 4 it really flies with the Task Manager showing up to 80% usage of all four cores at the same time. On a single core processor it could really be handicapped I think.

Roger

[veggiesosage]

Re: Panorama Software

Autostitch is worth a look.

http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html