Product version: PanoStitcher v. 1.4
First thing to do is to load in your images
Your images are then displayed in the workspace:
You can adjust the contrast and colours of individual images now, or let PanoStitcher automatically adjust these settings during stitching later:
Next just click stitch... Although you can specify your lens if you want to (see below), PanoStitcher can work out what lens you used too:
PanoStitcher intelligently works out whether the ends of the panorama connect, and prompts you if it thinks they do:
You then get to see the aligned set of images. At this point the seams are still visible.
You can then adjust the stitch settings if you think you need to, and then re-stitch
You can also change how the images will be merged together - if there are, for example, people moving in the scene, you can specify which of the left or right image will lie on top
If the stitch isn't quite right, you can use markers to align the images. Unlike other image stitching software, you only need use markers for those pairs of images that PanoStitcher cannot stitch itself. However, as with all marker based image stitching, this can be difficult to use if the images lack detail (e.g. trees or bushes, clear blue sky, etc). In these circumstances a click-and-drag-into-position interface is more intuitive and easier.
You can separately set the amount of overlap between images, although I can't imagine you needing to adjust this...
If you tend to use the same camera/settings all the time, you can set them up as your default configuration
PanoStitcher can also help you determine how many photos you should take, depending on your lens
Output options
Once stitching and blending are complete you can view your finished panorama (note this screen shot is from an evaluation version and therefore is watermarked with the Pixtra logo). You have various output options, but an unusual one is being able to save a planar ('perspective') view, i.e. something that approximates to what the scene would look like at a certain point. This then allows you to reconstruct a photo that you never actually shot...
You can also output a web page using the wizard, and then customise it for your own website
PanoStitcher can also help you email your panorama to friends - PanoStitcher will attach all the necessary files to the email for you
The print option will automatically split the image up so that you can print onto several pages and then re-assemble the pages of the print out to produce a print out that is larger than it might otherwise be. (There are alternative means of printing large images on printers that don't accept large paper sizes)
Panostitcher also comes with a screen saver version of the viewer so you can output your images to the screen saver
