LM Stitch
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Updated: 11 Nov 2001 at 5:00 GMT,
by James Rigg
[Panoguide]
This review refers to version 1.0
LM Stitch is a very simple, cheap and easy to use image stitcher. It will stitch both horizontal and vertical panoramas and will also stitch images to create a planar (normal perspective) image too.
The really surprising thing about LM Stitch is that it is a spherical image stitcher - you can stitch multiple rows of images together, or even any arrangement of images. In other words, it can correctly warp images to account for tilt and roll.
LM Stitch doesn't automatically recognise or fine tune your lens settings, and cannot automatically (or semi-automatically) stitch your images for you. Although you can easily zoom in and pan around as you manually position your images, LM Stitch is labour intensive and therefore not suitable for commercial use, for which speed is important. The simple 'crop' box is the only means of defining the ends of the panorama, and it is up to you to position the crop lines appropriately so that the ends align. In most cases that will not be easy.
Unfortunately I also found LM Stitch to be unstable when handling large numbers of images - when stitching multiple rows of images for a spherical panorama it ran out of memory and, without warning, crashed. Output also omits images when there is insufficient memory.
Lots of criticism then, but remember this is the first version of this software and it is extremely cheap by comparison to the other image stitchers reviewed on panoguide. If you are creating simple non 360 panoramas or mosaics this is a good choice.