Panorama Tools 1.2 - final (Macintosh) release

[Helmut Dersch <der@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Panorama Tools is a free program which allows to generate, edit and transform 
many kinds of panoramic images. Its four main functionalities are:

o Correction of images. 
  Remove all sorts of barrel and/or pincussion distortion.
  Correct light fall-off at edges of your wide angle shots.
  Correct chromatic errors (colour separation) of your lens.
  Correct chromatic errors (colour separation) of your scanner.
  Skew/Unskew your images horizontally or vertically.
  Correct/simulate tilted film planes.
  
o Perspective Control
  Simulates a shift lens in software
  For normal and fisheye lenses
  
o Remap from any projection to any projection
  Warp and unwarp normal, panoramic and fisheye images.
  Convert equirectangular LivePicture panos to QTVR-panos and vice-versa
  Convert mirror images (BeHere-setup or similar) to any panorama and vice-versa
  Convert fisheye images to any panorama and vice-versa
  Unwarp panorama sections (QTVR and LivePicture) to edit in Photoshop, then 
  rewarp and seamlessly insert back.
  
o Adjust images into a panoramic view
  Generate full panoramic view using any mixture of normal, fisheye
  and panoramic images.
  Built-in optimizer to find optimum pitch/roll/yaw/scale for a given image 
  to fit a panorama
  Built-in optimizer to find optimum correction settings for a given image.
  

New features of version 1.2(final) to 1.2b:

o The batch conversion facility of GraphicConverter 3.4 is supported. All tools
  can be used in batch-mode.
  
o The 'adjust' tool is extended to script-convert several images in one step.

o The optimizer in the 'adjust' tool also optimizes lens settings now.


Panorama Tools is freely available from my website, and requires the new
version 3.4 of GraphicConverter (http://www.lemkesoft.de) to run.

BTW: Many users ask why Panorama_Tools is not a Photoshop plug-in. Photoshop
does not allow to change image size within a filter plug-in which would
have seriously limited image quality of many transformations. This is 
why I have choosen the more flexible plug-in interface of GraphicConverter.

Best regards

Helmut Dersch

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