Realviz Stitcher Express

Panorama software, used to stitch several side-by-side digital photos into one sweeping vista, tends to be professional, complex and expensive, or cheap, easy to use and lacking in features.

But with the launch of Stitcher Express, Realviz has produced a relatively affordable application with some real muscle.

Stitcher Express is a slimmed-down version of Stitcher 4, Realviz's professional panorama package. It retains all the important features, most notably the ability to stitch multi-row panoramas and render cubical and spherical Quicktime VR formats, providing an immersive 360 deg horizontal and 180 deg vertical view.

Its easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface is equally well suited to producing a single-row cylindrical panorama, or just stitching together a few handheld shots to produce a super-wide angle image.

We tested the product's capabilities by feeding it a difficult multi-row stitching job with lots of 'problem' images. It performed spectacularly well, stitching together 30 individual photos without a hitch.

The cylindrical, spherical and snapshot render modes can be exported as a layered .psd file with layer masks, so you can edit individual layers on the rendered file in Photoshop or any other image editor that supports layered Photoshop files.

This is more expensive than other budget panorama applications, but Stitcher Express is every bit as easy to use and its professional features make them look like toys by comparison.

Contact:
Realviz +33 4 92 38 84 60
www.realviz.com

System Requirements:

• Pentium III 500MHz
• 256MB of Ram
• OpenGL compatible 1,024 x 768 24bit graphics card
• 50MB free disk space