Digital BW, The Print

On Dec 10, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Alan.Huntley@... wrote:

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> Carl,
>
> Great comparisons! Get Realviz Stitcher 4.0 and "painful stitching" 
> will be a thing of the past! Not inexpensive software, but, IMO, the 
> best out there for doing this type of work.

I've owned Stitcher licenses for several versions, and finally gave up 
on it... while it can be convenient for easily stitched subject matter, 
I often had frames that couldn't be stitched in Stitcher. After 
switching to a PanoTools-based workflow (PTMac on Mac OSX - PTGUI, 
PTAssembler, or Hugin on Windows) I will never look back... both for 
spherical panos (QuicktimeVR, etc) and for more traditional panos. Too 
many crashes and unstitchable scenes, and poor blending, not to mention 
the high-cost. The PanoTools workflow seems a bit complex at first, but 
it's very very capable, and not nearly as difficult as it may seem - 
especially now that there are tools like XPoints to automatically find 
your control points, and enblend to do first-class seam blending. It 
can be an entirely automated process now, but with far better quality 
than Stitcher.

Your mileage may vary, of course!

Cheers,

Roger