Image Assembler
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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
Probably the best thing to do before starting to stitch a given sequence of images is to run a Lens Wizard project so that Image Assembler can analyse the images fully and determine the best settings for stitching. You can do this from the project selection dialogue when starting a new project:
When running a Lens Wizard project you have to define control points between 3 images. Image Assembler will analyse these to determine the lens you used.
You can also define control points when you want to manually control the stitching of photo stitching projects and the interface is similar except that there are fewer control points.
Once you have your lens settings (whether or not you bothered to run a Lens Wizard project), you can run a photo stitching project. Start a new project, select the images to stitch and then define your lens:
(note that you can take into account barrel distortion and also tilt which is very unusual)
Next set your options for the stitching process:
(note that you can control warping and blending, which is unusual)
Finally after successfully stitching your images in a photo stitching project, you need to run an image wrapping project to link the ends together (if the panorama is 360 degrees). In this project you have to define a point at either end of the image that matches and then Image Assembler takes care of the rest:
And apart from just saving your final panorama as an image (for printing or whatever) you can also save as QTVR with various options:
