Digital BW, The Print

> From: guy washburn
>
> I just made my first stiched panorama using PSCS Automate>Photomerge
> and I just love the result (being an ex-8x20 large format user) but I
> was disappointed that it coerced the result file to 8bit.
>
> Can anyone suggest a high quality stiching program that allows you to
> keep 16bit output?

One powerful but cheap package is PTGui, which uses the Pano Tools DLL as
its calculation engine. It is less automated than Photomerge, which means
you don't have to worry about the computer being fooled into splicing the
images incorrectly. It can produce 16-bit output, including multiple TIFFs
with alpha channels for the masks, so that you can manually tweak the masks
when you layer them in Photoshop.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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