Download of the Day

A tech blog called lifehacker was asking for input about panoramas and high-resolution images. I sent them a tip about a tool called Zoomify. They went ahead and made that their Download of the Day for April 15. They also included a link to my Lower Antelope Canyon shot. Fun! But, what about all of those tips they didn't use? Here you go:

Panorama creation that is free, automatic, but has no manual control:

• AutoStitch
  

If you are anal retentive (like me) and want a lot of manual
control, you can use a suite of software:

• PanoTools -- This does all the mathematical heavy-lifting. It
  is now a SorceForge project, but a good place to go for info and compiled .dll's is Jim Watters' PanoTools Page.
  
• hugin -- This is a GUI front-end for PanoTools.
  
• AutoPano -- A helper application for hugin that automatically finds all of the common "control points" between the images.
  
• Enblend -- An application that does an exceptional job of blending images together.
  

I use the commercial (but inexpensive) PTAssembler in place of
hugin.