Runs on Mac OS X and Windows!!!
The Panorama Factory from Smoky City Design, LLC is a panoramic stitching program for Windows 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / x64 / Vista. It creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. The Panorama Factory transforms (warps) the images so that they can be joined seamlessly into panoramas whose fields of view can range up to 360 degrees.
Premium single-row stitching
rotated and tilted photos
handheld photos
support for all digital cameras
correction for barrel distortion
correction for brightness falloff
full interactive controls
Multi-row stitching
full spheres with a tripod
partial pans with a tripod
partial pans without a tripod
Create virtual tours
hotspot editing
web page creation
thumbnail indexes
control initial view
autopan mode
QTVR, IVR and PTViewer
The Panorama Factory creates images that rival those made by rotational and swing-lens panoramic cameras. Not only can The Panorama Factory facilitate creation of immersive VR worlds, it also provides features for the fine-art panoramic photographer who wishes to work from ordinary 35mm images or images captured with a digital camera.
Setting up your camera
For best results with The Panorama Factory, it is important to set up your camera properly. Careful attention to camera setup will result in panoramas that stitch more easily and look better.
Image sharpness in stitched panoramas
Some users have expressed concern about a perceived lack of sharpness in images produced by The Panorama Factory when compared to images from other panoramic stitchers. This article concludes that the apparent lack of sharpness is due to the fact that the other panoramic stitching application automatically applies a sharpening filter whereas The Panorama Factory does not.
Improving the quality of multi-generation images
Some loss of sharpness is an unavoidable result of resampling an image. When an image processing task has multiple steps, each subsequent image generation decreases the sharpness of the final result. This paper describes a technique provided by The Panorama Factory for improving image quality by recalculating the final image in a single resampling generation.
What is "35mm equivalent focal length?"
When you look at the lens specification for a digital camera, you'll see all sorts of different things. This article explains the focal length specifications for digital cameras and explains why you can't really compare focal lengths between different digital cameras.
A fine tuning challenge
Low contrast images and images that lack detail are particularly challenging for The Panorama Factory. Images like these often require more manual adjustment than ones that are rich in high-contrast edges. This article examines a particularly challenging set of images as a way to illustrate some potential difficulties with fine tuning and how to avoid them.
Using a perspective control lens (shift lens)
When taking pictures of certain types of subjects, there is a desire to tilt the camera up or down from the horizontal. Tilting the camera up or down from the horizontal produces images that have keystone distortion. A special type of lens called a perspective control lens (also commonly called a shift lens) can correct this keystoning by shifting the lens up or down with respect to the camera. A manual procedure is required to stitch images made with a perspective control lens.
The Panorama Factory V5 is "operating system neutral". As long as you follow the license terms, you may run The Panorama Factory on Windows or Mac (or both). The same Registration Key will work in either version.
http://www.panoramafactory.com
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