Digital BW, The Print

Good morning,

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?

Thanks!

Guy

Realviz Stitcher
There is a review here:
http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_71/essay.html

On Apr 17, 2005, at 7:34 AM, guy washburn wrote:

>
>
> Good morning,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Guy

Panorama Factory !!

Seth 

==-----Original Message-----
==From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
==
==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?
==
==

You can always do it manually--I've found this to be superior to the
auto-stitching software I have tried--and you can do it in 16-bit. I haven't
looked at stitching software in the last year or so--maybe they are better
now.

Best;

-PC


Patrick Carr
 Carr Imaging
 patcarr@...
 www.patrickcarrimaging.com



----- Original Message -----

From: "guy washburn" <guido02474@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:34 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Stitching software recomendation


>
>
> Good morning,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Guy

"guy washburn"  wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a high quality stiching program that allows you to
> keep 16bit output?

What platform are you on Windows or Mac? 

Here's some links to get you started...

http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/index.html

http://www.gregwired.com/Pano/Pano.htm

http://www.kekus.com/index.html

http://www.Realviz.com

> 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.

--

Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

I've recently done short reviews of Panorama Factory, PTGui, Realviz 
Stitcher and some other software on About Photography, though I'm still 
working on some further pieces, mainly on using the Nikkor 10.5mm with 
suitable software.

Some of these things are already on line - see:
http://photography.about.com/od/panoramas/

In brief (and from memory):

PTGui, together with enblend and autopano (and of course PTools)is a 
good solution for highest quality output with a reasonable ease of use.

Stitcher would be a good choice if you want to use a relatively high 
priced commercial product, and are using rectilinear lenses. Once you 
get the hang of using the mouse with it, it is easy to use and gives 
very good results when working with carefully taken images. Good for 
multi-row images.

Panorama Factory also gives excellent results with single row images and 
is rather cheaper.

If you want to use semi-fisheye or fisheye lenses then you would be 
better off with PTGui or the considerably more expensive Panoweaver 4.

Autostitch is also an interesting program, currently free, but only 8bit 
   so far as I know (new betas appear regularly.) Again only for 
rectilinear images.

-- 
Peter

Peter Marshall
http://photography.about.com
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Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

>>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.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@...
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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "guy washburn"
<guido02474@y...> wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Guy

A while back, I tried everything I could get my hands on and settled
on PTAssembler based on level of control and precision of stitching. 
Here's the link:

http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm

There are a lot of good tools out there; I hope you find one that
works for you.

George

George, Peter, Paul, John, Patrick, Seth and Carl,

Thanks for the recommendations. Lots of resources here to try. I am
giving PTassembler a try first, but knowing there are so many other
options to try is great!

Thanks!

Guy