Subject: Stitching Photos
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 12/10/2008, 1:59 PM
To: AAA Put this in the To box


> Going back a few emails, we were discussing the stitching software that
> was used to compose that shuttle landing picture.
>
> I mentioned at the time that I would look for something online equally
> as good, and I think I have found it.
>
> A program called AutoStitch that is indeed free (at least the Demo
> version, which I can find no limitations with).  I put it to the task of
> stitching 18 photos I took a couple of years ago, that I had originally
> stitched both manually and later with the program in Photoshop.
> Autostich produced a FAR better and faster result!  Equal to the shuttle
> landing panorama.
>
> The only problem I see with it, is that by default, it produces a
> picture that is 10% of the original's size, and at a 25% jpeg
> compression.  But by opening the options you can select anything up to
> 100% of size and from none to 100% compression.  You can also select
> rotation, blending and many other options.  It does not retain these on
> shutting down, and defers to it's default settings, but they are easy
> enough to change.
>
> It only took about 3 minutes here to completely adjust, rotate and blend
> those 18 photos.  I'll be using this from now on.
>
> www.autostitch.net  Click on the "Download"  link at the top of the page
> for the so-called "Demo".  Scroll down the page for samples, and a
> description of how it works.
>
> It appears to be full featured, and is totally automatic (once you
> select the options you want to change).  And it does the best job of any
> I've tried yet.
>
> Harley


I'll have to try that Harley.  Thanks for the link.


Matt-

I downloaded it an ran the test photos.  It seemed to work OK and that
was with Wine on my Linux machine.  The latest Wine (1.1.9) has worked
on everything I've tried so far.

Bob W.

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