OT: Panorama software

[Ian Wood]

Panoramas being my specialist area...

Cheap (free), powerful but a steeper learning curve than some apps  
would be Hugin. Hugin has a *very* active team of developers, so make  
sure you've downloaded a recent version.

Autopano Pro (nowhere near $379, not sure where you got that) is the  
easiest to use and the most automated, but can lack control if things  
don't do what you expect.

PTGui (PanoTools Graphical User Interface is the reason for the  
mouthful of a name) is what I use (the pro version, which has things  
like batch stitching and HDR which you won't need) and combines quite  
a bit of the ease of use of Autopano with a huge amount of control if  
you want to do more complex things.

All three of these work happily with multi-row panoramas and full  
sphericals.

Ian

P.S. Some useful pano-related sites:
http://ivrpa.org
http://panoguide.com
http://wiki.panotools.org/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PanoToolsNG/



On 6 Dec 2009, at 02:34, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> I keep dreaming that one day I will get beyond admin and have time  
> to do some "creative" well it may be soon.
>
> What are everyone recommendations as of 2010
>
> for best tools for creating panoramas (including 360 degree  
> horizontal over head ones) on Mac OSX?
>
> I see a an open source package which runs on Macs:
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> Hugin -- Free
>
> http://hugin.sourceforge.net/download/
>
> Autopano gets great reviews but $$379.00 seems a bit outrageous?
>
> Panoweaver only outputs Flash...
>
> Lots of windows only options which I can't use.
>
> ??
>
> Sivakatirswami
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