Software to View, Create, Edit and Remap Panoramic Images :
PTStitcher: High quality, simple to use, all format stitching software.
Panorama Tools: Photoshop plug-in for panorama creation, editing and remapping.
PTViewer: High quality spherical viewer, Standalone and java versions for many platforms.
Features:
(1) High Quality Image Transformations:
Only package that uses bicubic and better interpolators (see this article).
Calculations performed on gamma corrected image data (see this article) in double precision floating point format.
One resampling step combines all transformations including lens calibration and correction, warping, tilt and rotation correction, scanner and color correction, etc, thus preserving image quality.
Provides self-calibration of lens distortion and field-of-view, tilt/yaw/rotation, image alignment, and scanner correction.
(2) Most versatile Panorama Software:
Supports more formats: All major VR plug-ins and java viewers are accessible, as well as panoramic image creation for viewing and printing.
Supports more projections and mappings (full spherical, cylindrical, cubic, equirectangular, etc).
Supports more image correction and manipulation options.
Supports more input image formats: any normal lens, any fisheye lens, any panoramic camera, any scanning camera, any convex mirror, any combination of these, etc.
Only package that supports arbitrary multirow panoramas.
More computer platforms supported (MacOS, Win32, Unix(Panorama Tools only)). Sources compile on almost any computer.
(3) Simple to use
Drop your images onto PTStitcher's icon, and get back a panoramic image ready to be viewed.
(4) Free to use, no royalties
Panorama Tools and PTStitcher are free and open source software. Download a copy from the links below.
All panoramic images generated using this software are free to use, without per-click fees.
Download and Read about Panorama Tools and PTStitcher
PTViewer, free spherical Panorama Viewer. Small filesize, yet features high quality bilinear rendering. Java version supports hotspots. Now with shareware extension 'PTMViewer' that loads and displays Quicktime VR-files (panoramas and objects) without the need for a Quicktime installation.
PTEditor, Combined VR-Viewer/Editor. Use this application to extract and reinsert partial views from spherical panoramas. Edit in Photoshop or any other suitable graphics program.
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Panoramas generated using Panorama Tools
To view the panoramas, you need one of several viewers. The Java viewer "PTViewer" is the simplest solution, since no additional download is required, and it provides high image image quality at the same time. All that is needed is a Java-enabled browser. Some panoramas are provided in the format for LivePicture's Java viewer. Faster display is achieved with plug-in based viewers, but these require download and installation of a plug-in, which may be quite large. Also, plug-ins don't run on all platforms. Plug-in solutions used on this site are provided by LivePicture (ZoomIT-viewer), Infinite Pictures, and (the best but largest download) Apple.
Spherical Panoramas can also be viewed by VRML-viewers.This page describes the use of VRML-browsers and the conversion to cubic format.
