Apr 15, 2008, 23:25
I have discovered that Windows Live Photo Gallery (which is compatible with XP, and available here) is surprisingly good at stitching panoramas.
It's completely automatic; all you do is select the images to be stitched, right click and click "create panoramic photo".
Here is the result I got using 3 shots I snapped quickly in the back yard.
![[Image: wlpg800x318.jpg]](http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n195/cam83/Shuttertalk/wlpg800x318.jpg)
As you can see the blending is flawless and the perspective is exellent, and would only require a slight cropping and warping in photoshop.
Here is the same pictures stitched in Hugin.
![[Image: hugin800x387.jpg]](http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n195/cam83/Shuttertalk/hugin800x387.jpg)
Even after running it through hugin again for perspective correction, it still didn't look as good as the WLPG-created one.
Of course, this is only a basic panorama job. I have no idea how WLPG would go at stitching a 360° panorama. I'll give it a test tomorrow sometime. But so far i'm very impressed, and would say it's worth having even just as an image viewer/organiser.
It's completely automatic; all you do is select the images to be stitched, right click and click "create panoramic photo".
Here is the result I got using 3 shots I snapped quickly in the back yard.
As you can see the blending is flawless and the perspective is exellent, and would only require a slight cropping and warping in photoshop.
Here is the same pictures stitched in Hugin.
Even after running it through hugin again for perspective correction, it still didn't look as good as the WLPG-created one.
Of course, this is only a basic panorama job. I have no idea how WLPG would go at stitching a 360° panorama. I'll give it a test tomorrow sometime. But so far i'm very impressed, and would say it's worth having even just as an image viewer/organiser.