Free Image TOOL: Image Composite Editor, this is the latest version as of May 26, 2011
SWEET! A new Imagine Composite Editor as of May 26, 2011! What are the new features?
Oops forgot the link: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/
- Stitch directly from a video (only on Windows 7)
- Automatic lens vignette removal
- Improved blending engine
- Options dialog to control memory usage and scratch disk locations
This is included with these additional features:
- Accelerated stitching on multiple CPU cores
- Ability to publish, view, and share panoramas on the Photosynth web site
- Support for "structured panoramas" — panoramas consisting of hundreds of photos taken in a rectangular grid of rows and columns (usually by a robotic device like the GigaPan tripod heads)
- No image size limitation — stitch gigapixel panoramas
- Support for input images with 8 or 16 bits per component
- Ability to read raw images using WIC codecs
- Photoshop layer and large document support
- State-of-the-art stitching engine
- Automatic exposure blending
- Choice of planar, cylindrical, or spherical projection
- Orientation tool for adjusting panorama rotation
- Automatic cropping to maximum image area
- Native support for 64-bit operating systems
- Wide range of output formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, HD Photo, and Silverlight Deep Zoom
Comments
Anonymous
June 08, 2011
Where is my link?Anonymous
June 09, 2011
Was there supposed to be a link to the tool somewhere in this post?Anonymous
June 12, 2011
Oops research.microsoft.com/.../ice Added it to the article as well. Thank you!