current best pano stitcher

[Andy M]

I too have been playing with APP for the past 24 hours, and am very impressed. The photo below was a quick edit and took around 5 minutes of fiddling:

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[JeffKohn]

Nice image!

But you should really give PTGui a try, I would expect it to process a 12 panel stitch of 12mp images like that from loading the images to saving the blended file in about  5 minutes.  Maybe a two hour learning curve for your first pano.

I haven't noticed any significant speed differences between the two when configured similarly. Smartblend is the biggest factor, and you have to configure it as an external tool in PTGui. PTGui's own blender is much faster than Smartblend, but doesn't always work as well. I've also found the Vedutismo projection in PTGui to take longer than other projections, although I think this got better in the last release.

[Lisa Nikodym]

Jeremy:

I already noticed what you mentioned about losing the profile.  Not a problem, though; I have Photoshop set up to ask if there's no profile, and I just told it to assign Adobe RGB (what the original tiffs coming out of ACR used, and what I typically use in PS).

The photo was taken in the Dolomites of northern Italy (an area also known as the South Tyrol, next to Austria).  Gorgeous, gorgeous mountains!  This particular location was from a hiking trail in the Puez Altiplano above the Val Gardena, looking down a valley named Vallunga.

Lisa