[ANNOUNCE] PTStitcher

[Helmut Dersch <der@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Announcing PTStitcher, the simple stitching utility. Drop your images onto its
icon, 
and get a panorama ready to be viewed by all major plug-ins. With multirow
stitching 
capability, all lens type support, cylindrical and spherical formats and much more.

Output options:
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o QTVR movie ready to be viewed with Quicktime plug-in.
o Smoothmove full spherical panorama ready to be viewed 
  with Infinite Images (iMove) plug-in.
o RealVR full spherical panorama ready to be viewed with
  LivePicture's ZoomIt viewer.
o Panoramic images for viewing and printing
o Multilayer Photoshop file containing one image per layer for
  editing.

Input options:
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o Rectilinear lenses with any focal length
o Fisheye lenses with any focal length
o Panoramic cameras
o Any orientation possible (multirow etc)
o Can read PICT and JPEG images.

Tutorial examples included:
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o Making panoramas using two rows of rectilinear images 
  (aka Kaidan/Smoothmove).
o Making panoramas using two fisheye images
  (aka ..forgot it).

PTStitcher v1.0b0 is free, and available for Macintosh (PPC, System > 7.6)
from <http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/PTStitcher.sit.hqx>

Enjoy

Helmut Dersch

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Spherical Panoramas, Macro Panoramas, 
Free Panorama Software:
<http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch>