Image Assembler

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Created by: PanaVue
Price: $57.60 - $179.10

Image Assembler is aimed at the professional photographer aiming to print panoramas, for whom high quality high resolution images are needed.

 

Product version: Image Assembler v. 2.02a

The following features list is not necessarily exhaustive - it is intended to help you compare products

Software (general)help 
OS / Platform Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000 and XP
Image stitchinghelp 
Stitching types flat stitches/mosaics and cylinders. Defaults to saving panoramas in spherical projection
No. stitchable rows multi-row but cannot create a spherical panorama because unable to stitch the "poles" of the sphere
Supported lens types All rectilinear lenses, plus fisheye lenses down to approx 15.1mm (suitable for Nikon CoolPix FC-E8 in full frame mode). Can also stitch the ends of a panorama from a panoramic camera.
Minimum focal length 13.50mm (rectilinear) / 15.10mm (fisheye)
Source file formats BMP, JPEG, TIFF (non LZW), TGA, PCX, PSD (PhotoShop), RAS (Sun Raster), PICT, PCD (PhotoCD), FPX (FlashPix)
Supported source image orientations Supports images taken with the camera tilted up or down (or level), but not images where the camera was rolled left/right
Correct linear distortion yes
Stitch greyscale images yes
Lens selection Manual select plus a 'lens project' gets Image Assembler to do a thorough analysis and calculation of lens characteristics
Source Image adjustment  No / not supported 
Alignment process Automatic align, with optional manual align using flags. Because the flags are positioned during an automatic align, all you need to is move any flags that are wrong.
Automatable in Image Assembler Command Line edition
Stitched image adjustment  No / not supported 
Output options QuickTime VR cylinder (360 degrees only)
Output file formats BMP, JPEG, TIFF, TIFF with CCITT Group 4 Compression, TGA, PCX, PSD, RAS, PICT, FPX, PNG, QTVR