Best Stitcher/panorama Maker For Mac

Oct 21, 2017 - PTGui is a leading editing software for stitching 360 panoramic photos. Stitching 360/panoramic photos, compatible with Windows and Mac. Hugin panorama photo stitcher is a cross platform open source software and is compatible with most of the versions of Microsoft Windows (including Vista, 7, 8, 8.1), Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and GNU. Download Hugin panorama photo stitcher for free from its Source Forge repository. #03 – Windows Photo Gallery.

Best Stitcher/panorama Maker For Mac

I use the pano feature of PS Elements 8 on my iMac. It helps to use a tripod and a bubble level to keep each frame aligned to the next. And, as mentioned, set exposure in Manual mode so it stays the same for each shot. I usually set exposure by checking it for each shot I plan to take, moving the camera while on the tripod to see if there will be much change from one image to the next. Then I take each photo with grid lines on the LCD to help me know how much to leave for overlap in each shot. You can purchase PTGui to allow you to stitch images that have the overlaps, but may not be properly aligned.

Jj74e wrote: thanks for the replies! One more question, you know how for automatic pano sweeping modes, most people rotate their body so that the camera is actually capturing the scene on a curve? Does it make a significant difference to pan flatly across a scene or is rotating okay to do too? Automatic pano on NX is soooo loose that IMHO it makes no difference if you rotate camera across focal point, as required by rules, or sweep it on stretched hands, as you forced to do by this automatic mode. Besides, what I can see from some auto panos I shoot, there is some compensation applied incamera. Hi Sorry this reply is so late, but I have been trying out panorama stitching software for my Mac and I thought I'd give you the benefit of my work thus far. By far the best free software seems to be Hugin.

It's very powerful and a bit complex. So far I have tried AutoPano, Hugin and PTGUI. My test pano was shot with a Nikon 105DC on a D3S. I shot a 170 degree pano in portrait orientation.

The lens has a 15 degree field of view horizontally in portrait orientation and I used 10 degree rotations, 17 & 18 images across, 2 high for a total of 35 total images. Each image was a 5 shot HDR composite at one stop between exposures (the HDRs were produce with NIK software HDRPro) I use a sturdy tipod with a Pano head and a Nodal rail. Only PTGui was able to automatically stitch all of the images together. PTGui also allowed me to easily manually match exposures where necessary (to fix my error in building the HDR images) Both of the other programs required manual identification of control points to stitch it all.

PTGui costs some money, but it seems worth it. I will try a couple more programs. Some of these have already been mentioned. Camera in Portrait position. Manual mode: since panoramic scenes typically have widely varying light, it's a good idea to find a 'happy medium' before you begin shooting. If you have a scene with bright brights and dark darks, you may not be so happy with the end result even if you hit a median exposure.

Manual focus. Variations in focus can ruin your pano. Be very careful about objects in the foreground. If you have not determined what some people call the nodal point of your lens, you can get some awfully disjointed results.

Most stitching programs need to be able to determine alignment points. Make sure you have enough info in each exposure so the program can work it's magic. Shoot RAW if you can.

Jpeg compression can sometimes make for difficult blending in large smooth areas such as the sky. It's better to rotate the camera around a point rather than sweeping an arc.

Until you get really good a pano's, stay away from extreme wide angle lenses. Start out with 'normal' focal lengths. You'll get less distortion artifact and easier blending. Cannot overstate the need to keep the camera as level as possible. Enjoy your adventure into the world of panoramic photography. It can be a blast!

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Automatic panorama stitching application for Mac. Perfect for making high resolution images for large prints.Mini version can stitch up to five images.

State of the art algorithm: - Automatic alignment of source photos. Handling of moving objects. Inconsistencies between images in intersections are minimized. Automatic exposure levelling and lens shading correction. Rectilinear and equirectangular projections for rendering. Automatic cropping algorithm.

Accurate color handling. Output image is in the same color space as source images. EXIF tags from source files are merged to output.

Simple and clean user interface: - Just drag and drop images to start stitching. All editing controls are at hand.

Straighten and rotate panorama as needed with projection editor. Hardware accelerated preview allows to see all changes in real time. Manual exposure correction and crop controls. Import in all image formats supported by Mac OS X, including all formats supported by Apple RAW. Export in JPG, TIFF and PNG formats. Support for planar alignment.

Now additionally to standard spherical panoramas it is possible to properly stitch oversized scans, microscope images, aerial maps etc. Photosphere tags are added to the output (for spherical panoramas with equirectangular projection). Panoramas with Photosphere tags are navigable on Facebook, Street View or any compatible image viewer. As requested by architectural photographers the grid in projection editor is more denser. Fixes: - Memory consumption on export of large images is reduced. EXIF date on panorama was sometimes in different timezone than source photos.

Many small stability and performance fixes. 1.8.1 16 Aug 2017. Support for planar alignment.