#ICE PANORAMA STITCHER SOFTWARE#

it's even possible to mix different focal length lenses but pass on how. In terms of panoramas it will align and stitch images while also correcting perspective/lens distortion problems and exposure variations. It also now reads lens data from the exif info if it can. I used it recently and didn't notice any difference in that respect but it may be possible to set it in preferences. The only irritation I found with Hugin is that it doesn't default to rectilinear projection - 'the normal one'. It also uses library files at a lower level. True but it's very similar to MS dll's really other than that they can be used directly if needed. HUGIN, Kathy mentions a gui to command line routines. When you get good at one section, it is time to move on to 'what does this button do?' sort of thing.

#ICE PANORAMA STITCHER SOFTWARE#

I used to have it before when I was looking for pano softwares but I forgot all about it.any software all have learning curves. Nowadays I have SnagIt to capture video and play them later at my convenience. You can watch some videos on Youtube to learn or in my early days (before KimC told me it is easy to just watch the video and follow it) I love text instruction learning. Was Hugin technical and frustrating? Or did you like it OK?No not actually - I have not done many pano nowadays.but it is only January, my photo bulk starts from June onwards when I get dragged to see air shows and national fly-in and a succession of it until end of autumn.Winter time is either renovation time or cleaning time (basement, attic, name it.) that is when I take advantage of doing pano while there on location. I'm not planning to drop any digits on this software acquisition, so I might not be going with PTGui for now. If you're stitching for high-res landscapes, gigpixel images, or Brenizer-Method fun, however, your needs could be different enough that another package would work better for you.

I need something a bit more full-featured like Hugin or PTGui. Since I'm stitching together fisheye images to make 360x180 spherical panos that I remap into stereographic little planets: Since they're both free, it wouldn't hurt to try both of them and see which one fits your needs better. It's up to you how much control you need or want. However, unlike ICE, you can get to the stitching 'guts', as it were, and made adjustments to correct for some shooting errors which may cause ICE not to be able to correctly stitch an image. I use it for spherical panorama stitching, at which point, you mess about with a whole lot more crazy. If you're sticking to the default usage of a rectilinear/cylindrical panorama and a handful of images, though, the interface shouldn't be too bad. So, the interface can be a bit cryptic at times. Hugin is essentially a GUI front-end for a ton of open source command line utilities for manipulating graphical images, most of which come in very handy for panorama stitching, but which can have a ton of 'off-label' uses, as well (e.g., HDR, exposure fusing, focus stacking, lens correction, perspective correction, remapping, etc.). Microsoft ICE, obviously, isn't open source or multi-platform, but may be a simpler alternative than Hugin. I've used Hugin, but prefer using the PTGui commercial package instead.

Ice panorama stitcher