The panoramic images are composed of many images taken by a common digital camera and subsequently assembled by the program, to form a single image that can embrace a horizontal field of view up to 360 ° and vertical up to 180 °. Autostitch is able to automatically recognize the photos to be used, in what sequence and with what overlap, so as to compose a complete panorama that is generated without any manual intervention, only by selecting the set of images to be analyzed, and Autostitch thinks of all the rest .
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1) Autostitch is the best free program that automatically assembles individual images, transforming them into beautiful panoramic photos that faithfully reproduce, in a single image, the complete view of all the surrounding space. After saving for simplicity all JPG images in the same folder where you installed autostitch.exe, open the program and select Edit -> Options then set Output Size -> Scale "100%" and Image Rotation "Clockwise".
Now using -> Open, select all the JPG images that make up the panorama, and the program will start processing which, depending on the number of images and their resolution, may take a few minutes.
At the end of the process, the panoramic image obtained will be displayed, which will be saved in the same folder.
You can see thousands of panoramas created with Flickr-Tag: autostitch.
Autostitch can also be used on the 360 degree extended desktop .
2) With Microsoft programs you can also compose 3D panoramic photos by combining images thanks to Microsft ICE and Windows Live Photo Gallery.
ICE, or Image Composite Editor, offers an easy-to-use editor with which you can create panoramic images from normal photos taken in the same place, with different perspectives.
In full Microsoft style, simply drag and drop the images on the interface, or rather on the gray area that will house the overview and the program will do everything by itself to create the 360-degree panoramic photo and stick the images to each other.
After the automatic procedure, if necessary, you can make manual changes.
3) Another free software to transform panoramic photos into 3D virtual worlds is Make3D definitely worth trying as an alternative to Autostitch.
4) WPanorama, on the other hand, is a perfect software for viewing panoramic photos on your PC .
WPanorama is a free program created specifically to animate the viewing of panoramic photos both horizontally and vertically and also includes the possibility of using it as a "screensaver" program.
5) Hugin is an Open Source program for Windows and Mac to create 360 degree panoramic images starting from simple photographs.
To get started, upload the desired images from the Assistant tab and select a camera lens type from the Lens menu.
Once the images are added, use the options of resizing, cropping, mask, display of the Optimizer menu and then specify the similar points of the separate images so as to merge and stitch them together with consistency.
The Panorama, to be created with the Stitch button, can be saved in TIFF, JPEG or PNG format.
6) Panorama Perfect is another program to use for sewing multiple photos taken without using a tripod.
It allows you to merge multiple photos together to create beautiful panoramas that can be saved as a single photo.
In addition, it contains a transition editor and a set of tools for adjusting the brightness and edges of the resulting image.
In the editor you can align the images by dragging them into the program interface.
After configuring the desired settings, simply click File> Create Panorama to start the process of merging the photos.
Panorama Perfect is free in the free version, somewhat limited in the size of the final panoramic images.
It works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, Windows 10.
Below, 4 sites where you can assemble and merge photos to create panoramas online .
- Demander is probably one of the best free online panorama creators you can find, which makes it easy to merge and tile photographs.
You can create a 360 degree panorama or even a wide angle panorama.
- Fotor Photo Stich is another web application to create online panorama photos for free, easy to use and without limitation to the photos that can be joined, vertically or horizontally.
- PhotoJoiner is one of the best free websites to create 360 degree panoramic images, which combines images loaded vertically or horizontally, with up to 8 images.
- Zippy Photo Stitcher allows you to use up to 3 images to create a vertical or horizontal panorama, very simple and quick.
When you open the Zippy Photo Stitcher homepage, you will see the option to import the images at the top. Just click on the "Choose Image" button and then select the images for the panorama. Once done, hit the "Upload" button. Now you will see the images just above the canvas and the option to choose the layout on the left. After selecting a panorama layout, simply drag and drop the images in sequence. The panorama will be ready to be saved as a JPEG file.
