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Panorama Tools - v1.5b for Photoshop

  • From: Helmut Dersch <der@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Panorama Tools - v1.5b for Photoshop
  • Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 01:56:25 +0200
Panorama Tools is a free program to generate, edit and transform 
many kinds of panoramic images. It is implemented as a plug-in for
Photoshop or compatible hosts, and for GraphicConverter (both Macintosh).
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 for a given image 
  to fit a panorama
  Built-in optimizer to find optimum correction settings for a given image.
  Built-in stitching tool to automatically merge images into a panoramic view.
  

Changes 1.5b0 to 1.2.1

o Added support for Photoshop

o An automatic stitcher using a selectable feather has been incorporated.
  Arbitrary images can be merged, and the seams are automatically placed 
  in the middle of the overlap region.
  
o Several minor bug fixes (adjust tool)  


Helmut Dersch (der@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)


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