Stitch Photos Into Huge, Seamless Panoramas in No Time at All
PanoramaStudio is a panorama stitcher with extensive features for creating panoramas as well as for editing and post-processing the stitched panoramas.
Even the standard version offers the option of saving in various image formats, of printing with a poster printing function and of exporting as interactive 3D panorama or virtual tour consisting of multiple linked panoramas.
The application combines the simple creation of perfect panoramas in just a few steps with numerous editing options.
Key Features
Panorama Creation
- Automatic stitching of arbitrary image arrangements into seamless panoramas
- Automatic correction of exposure mismatches, brightness and vignetting
- Several projections for different visualizations (spherical / equirectangular, cylindrical, Mercator, Little Planets)
Supported Cameras and Lenses
- Processing of photos from any conventional camera
- Recognition of more than 2830 cameras based on their Exif data
- Automatic correction of lens distortion
Editing
- Manual correction of all individual steps, for example with the control point editor or the masking tool
- Dynamic preview in a 2D or 3D view
- Numerous non-destructive image processing filters
- Real-time preview of most editing steps and filters
Import/Export
- Export of interactive HTML5 panoramas and virtual tours for local viewing or embedding in websites
- Import/export of the most common image formats
- Direct import of more than 1250 RAW formats
- Poster printing function
New in Version 4.1
- Numerous new projections
PanoramaStudio now offers a wide range of additional projection types, allowing visually different renderings and impressions to be generated from the same panorama. With 5 projections in the Standard version and a total of 15 projection types in the completely renewed projection function of the Pro version, many new possibilities open up.
Overall, the following projections are now available:
- Perspective (rectilinear)
- Pannini*
- Little Planet (stereographic fisheye)
- Fisheye (equidistant)*
- Fisheye (orthographic)*
- Spherical (equirectangular)
- Miller*
- Gall (stereographic)*
- Mercator
- Cylindrical
- Transverse spherical (Cassini)*
- Transverse Miller*
- Transverse Gall (stereographic)*
- Transverse Mercator*
- Transverse cylindrical*
- JPEG-XL (JXL) as an additional new image format.
The relatively new JPEG-XL or JXL is nearly ideal for panoramas.
Unlike classic JPEG, there are no size limits for JXL images.
It supports both 8- and 16-bit color depths for standard images, as well as 16- and 32-bit float for HDR images in the Pro version.
Compression can be either lossy or lossless. The lossy method results in smaller files with better image quality than traditional JPEGs. The lossless method produces completely uncompressed files that are usually smaller than even the best TIFF or PNG compression methods. - RAW Import extended and improved:
- The number of supported RAW variants has been expanded by over 50 to currently more than 1250 RAW formats.
- Improved quality in many cases when importing RAW images
- Completely reworked and enhanced highlight reconstruction, which can reveal more details in bright/overexposed areas — at the same time, the occasional issue with pink color artifacts has been resolved.
- Fixed an issue with artifacts at the edges of some Fuji cameras.
- Improved "adaptive blending". While the adaptive mode previously still had occasional problems with noticeable brightness transitions in formats with very narrow aspect ratios and large differences in brightness, these are now also adjusted reliably and completely seamlessly.
- The camera database has been expanded by about 80 to now include more than 2830 cameras.
- For better image alignment: Metadata recognition expanded to support the latest DJI drones.
- PanoramaStudio Viewer: Updated for latest browser versions, API interface expanded.
- Several dozen optimizations and minor bug fixes.