Panorama stitching software
Panoweaver is professional panorama stitching software for creating 360 spherical panoramas from digital photos. Panoweaver 5.00 and previous versions stitch single line fisheye photos to spherical panoramas and the latest 6.00 version can stitch all kinds of photos into spherical and cylindrical panoramas.
Main features of Panoweaver:
- Support automatic stitching and manual stitching
- Stitch spherical panoramas from fisheye photos
- Stitch cylindrical panoramas from single-row/multiple-rows of photos
- Support stitching HDR panoramas from camera RAW source images
- Stitch and blend HDR source images into an LDR panorama
- Recognize the lens type automatically
- Support two blenders: PWBlend and Smartblend
- Stitch 16 bit panoramic image
- Right click stitching
- Save unfinished project
- Output panoramas to Flash panorama tours, QuickTime movies and Java Applet tours
How to stitch spherical panoramas?
To create 360*180 degree spherical panoramas, it is recommended to shoot fisheye photos and then stitch with Panoweaver.
What is fisheye photo?
Fisheye photo is usually taken with fisheye lens, and there are three types of fisheye photos that can be stitched into 360*180 spherical panorama with Panoweaver.
- Full circular fisheye photo
It
has a 180° angle of view in all directions.
- Drum fisheye photo If you attach DSLR
with Focal length multiplier>1 to Sigma 8mm f4 EX fisheye lens, the two
margins in the final fisheye images will be cut. We call it drum fisheye image
derived from its shape.
Drum fisheye image
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Full frame fisheye photo
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- Full frame fisheye photo It has a
180° angle of view only on the diagonal line.
Stitch full frame fisheye photos to panorama: 
The stitched panoramic photo is a 360 degree spherical one.
How to stitch cylindrical panorama?
A cylindrical panoramic photo has 360 degree in the horizontal line, but less than 180 degree in the vertical line.
Cylindrical panorama stitched by Panoweaver 6.00
The above cylindrical panorama is stitched from the following photos:
How to stitch HDR panoramas?
Panoweaver supports HDR panorama stitching. There are two ways to get HDR panorama:
Bracket exposure
1. Using bracket exposure to shoot fisheye images.
2. Import the image groups into Panoweaver to get panoramas once for all.
3. Adjust on the created HDR to get a good-result LDR (normal panoramic image)
Using camera raw file
1. Shoot in RAW mode.
2. Import Camera RAW in in Panoweaver 5.00 to stitch panorama.
3. Simply stitch the RAW file in Panoweaver to get a nice panorama with appropriate exposure value.
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