Autopano Pro: Panoramas Made Easy
I’ve always been curious about how to shoot panoramas, and yet even more curious about how to “stitch” them together on my computer. While shooting some photos in Europe, I decided to try my hand at a panorama, and solve this mystery. When I came home, I loaded the six connected photos onto my computer, and then went searching for the best panorama app out there. At first, I threw my pictures into Photoshop and used the “Photomerge” function to stitch them together. The photo came out distorted and warped. I searched for a new solution, and eventually found Autopano Pro. Autopano isn’t like most stitchers, as it’s automatic and does nearly everything for you. It stitches, blends, and even finds the best area to crop.
Using Autopano Pro is easy. First, drag your photos to the left side of the window. Press the play button, and Autopano will align and blend the images. It really is that easy and simple to stitch your photos with Autopano.
Afterwards, you’re free to make edits to the photo, as well as render the entire panorama to your specifications.
Why is Autopano the simplest panorama app? It really has shown the best results so far. Using the same six photos, competing products rendered a more distorted final panorama. The worst example was Photoshop’s “Photomerge” feature, which distorted the photo to the point that even cropping it wouldn’t fix the problem. Autopano however, delivered a straight image with no curves or bends (excluding the edges), and cropped it for me easily. You can check out my final panorama here.
Although Autopano is priced at a hefty €99, it’s worth the price due to it’s simplicity, ease of use, and amazing rendering abilities. Autopano is available from Kolor, and can be downloaded as a free trial.
Sounds like a cool app. I’ll have to try it out with my Rebel.
Tried it, and it did a horrid job (and the photos themselves were fine and well taken). Plus, the interface is essentially horrible.