Photo Stitching Program: I am a happy user of FastStone but I am looking for a program that will permit stitching of photos from time to time. ArcSoft used to have an editing program...

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Jun 22, 2016 23:57:45 #

Frank

I am a happy user of FastStone but I am looking for a program that will permit stitching of photos from time to time. ArcSoft used to have an editing program with that feature but it is no longer supported. Any suggestions for a free or low cost program that I could use for this purpose?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!

Jun 23, 2016 00:26:41 #

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Adobe Photoshop's "photo merge" feature is almost flawless for stitching, and extremely easy to use.
For free, Microsoft ICE does a fine job as well.

Jun 23, 2016 00:27:23 #

wolfd Loc: Vancouver, Canada

I am quite happy with ICE from Microsoft.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/

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Jun 23, 2016 05:48:32 #

photocat Loc: Atlanta, Ga

Check out Serif's Panoramtic plus their version 3 is free

Years ago I tested about 8 programs and ended up using theirs and at that tie it was about $50 dollars

Have others that cost much more but find this one very easy to use and we use it in my classes for that reason alone;however we are using the latest version

Jun 23, 2016 05:57:51 #

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

buy a used sony bridge or slt, it's built in. it works quite well.

Jun 23, 2016 06:37:18 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

wolfd wrote:

I am quite happy with ICE from Microsoft.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/

Yes, this does work very well. I had been using a free program from Canon, but IE works better.

Jun 23, 2016 08:04:21 #

treadwl Loc: South Florida

Lightroom has a photo stitch feature. I recently merged 12 images from my Nikon D810 with flawless perfection. It was both fast and easy. Since i use Lightroom for my pp work it was a no brainer to use it to merge the images.

Jun 23, 2016 08:38:00 #

Ralloh Loc: Ohio

Frank wrote:

If you use Windows, Live Photo Gallery has a stitcher built in that works great. Here is a panorama of a cemetery I visited yesterday while geocaching. It is four, hand held photos.

Jun 23, 2016 08:58:35 #

Picdude Loc: Ohio

I personally use the photomerge tool in Photoshop, but there are a LOT of good reviews regarding the free Microsoft ICE program. Definitely cheap to try

Jun 23, 2016 09:15:33 #

Frank

WOW! Thanks to everyone for this information. Will definitely put it to use!!

Jun 23, 2016 09:43:30 #

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

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Jun 23, 2016 20:46:39 #

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

wolfd wrote:

I am quite happy with ICE from Microsoft.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/ice/

ICE is great if you are working with JPG files. I do not believe it will work with TIFF or any form of RAW.

Jun 23, 2016 21:55:34 #

Frank

That is the problem with ICE as it is jpeg only. For big panoramas I prefer TIFF. Sigh..... :-(

Jun 23, 2016 22:22:01 #

Ralloh Loc: Ohio

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

ICE is great if you are working with JPG files. I do not believe it will work with TIFF or any form of RAW.

I have no idea what ICE is, but, I posted four photos that were automatically stitched with Windows Live Photo Gallery. These are RAW files. It has no problem with them. I didn't even have to load them in order. It does everything automatically.

Jun 23, 2016 22:44:08 #

Math78 Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

ICE is great if you are working with JPG files. I do not believe it will work with TIFF or any form of RAW.

Not true. ICE supports most raw files. You can't save the result as "raw" but you can save as tiff.

View of LA smog using 3 "arw" Sony raw files from a6000

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