PanoramaStudio 4

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 photos from all conventional cameras, drones, and smartphones
  • Recognition of more than 2900 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 1270 RAW formats
  • Poster printing function


New in version 4.2

  • DNG Export
    Panoramas can now also be saved as DNG files.
  • Significantly improved image alignment
    • Image alignment is now significantly more reliable, even in difficult shooting situations.
    • Performance has been greatly improved, especially for very large panoramas consisting of hundreds or thousands of images. Projects with more than 1,000 images, which previously could take several hours to process, are now typically aligned reliably within just a few minutes.
  • Improved performance of interactive panoramas
    The restructured output for the PanoramaStudio Viewer provides a significant performance boost. Average loading times for interactive panoramas have been reduced by about 50%. In most cases, the initial view appears within just a fraction of a second, making the loading process virtually unnoticeable. The same applies to loading additional image data while zooming and panning.
  • Interactive panoramas: JPEGli compression
    Image tiles for interactive panoramas can now optionally be compressed using JPEGli. Google's modern JPEG encoder produces files that are up to 25% smaller while remaining fully compatible with all web browsers, resulting in even faster loading times.
  • Optimized memory management during rendering
    Despite PanoramaStudio's own memory management, rendering extremely large images could exceed the available RAM and virtual memory on some systems. The new version now handles such cases reliably even on systems with limited memory.
  • The program's icons have been redesigned and modernized.
  • RAW import updated
    RAW support has been extended by another 25 camera models, bringing the total to more than 1,270 supported cameras. The optional highlight recovery during RAW import has also been further improved.
  • The camera database now includes more than 2,900 cameras, drones, and smartphones, approximately 70 more than before.
  • Improved support for DJI drones. Additional variants of DJI metadata are now recognized, resulting in more reliable image alignment.
  • Numerous additional optimizations and minor bug fixes.

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*
    (*): only in PRO version
  • 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.
  • 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.