Is there such a thing as a decent free photo stitching software?
I only need to make up 3 images for a one off
Ta
autostitch
I second that:
www.autostitch.net
The easiest stitching programme ever, and great results.
cheers, will go have a look....
I use [url= http://www.panoramafactory.com/ ]Panorama Factory[/url] - not free but cheap (and there is a trial).
If you have a Canon camera, PhotoStitch that comes with that is pretty decent.
[url= http://download.live.com/photogallery ]Windows Live Photo Gallery[/url]. Free, easy, awesome results and direct upload to Flickr.
Or for something more advanced, try ICE (also free):
[url] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ [/url]
Autostitch is great
Some examples
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And it is auto, only thing done to these after putting them through autostitch is cropping the edges off
Best settings for autostitch from another place:
quality: 100 (obv,just the jpeg compression)
blending bands: 12 (or higher, helps get rid of edges, which don't quite line up drifting into and out of existence)
for vertical panoramas it can help to rotate the images using Image rotation: anti/clockwise so that it comes out horizontal and you just rotate it back afterwards
a bit resource hungry but I'm getting ok results with this
ebygomm- love the 360x360 sphere/polar :0
Couple of reasons I like Panorama Factory:
It lets you select the important points to match up and can do a complete grid based warp which is really handy when you have parralax errors to deal with.
It can output as a photoshop file with each image on a seperate layer so you can manually adjust the blending.