Microsofts ICE

[derekG]

Anybody use Microsofts ICE to stitch panorama images, I have used different programs in the past but this one seems so simple to use on my first try it turned out perfect where with other editors it was always hit and miss with me, perhaps it was beginners luck.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/69699e5a-5c91-4b01-898c-ef012cbb07f7/

 

[Pookeyhead]

Never used it, no. I normally use Photoshop's "Photomerge" or PTGui. The former for simple click and go ease of use, and the latter when I need to take some control of the process.

As you put a link up, I'll give it a go though.

 

[Pookeyhead]

Seems to work OK. One annoying thing though, was the "camera motion".. never heard it called that before BTW.... it's usually the projection settings... anyway... if you change them, it has to recalculate everything. That's fine for a 3 image stitch with phone JPEGs, which I suspect this was designed for, but try it with a 30 image composite and it's a pain.

Apart from that it works OK, assuming it gets it right. If it fails, then there's nothing you can do about it, as there's no manual control.

Seems OK for a freebie though.


[edit]

It exports everything with sRGB though... that's annoying.

 

[derekG]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, as I said previously I have had little experiece of stitching never getting the join properly aligned but I just dragged the images on to this program and it worked, not sure I know whatyou mean about srgb though?

 

[AJQS]

SRGB is the colour space.

ICE is the best panorama stitcher I've used, although I don't do many.

 

[derekG]

Thanks Alan, SRGB is the color space, this I know , but why is it a problem?

 

[seriousrikk]

Thanks Alan, SRGB is the color space, this I know , but why is it a problem?

When the source images are adobe rgb it is annoying. The Adobe rgb colour space has a wider colour gamut than srgb. It would be better if it output adobe and then we can convert to srgb based on our desired output.

 

[derekG]

Understood , Thanks

 

[Tringa]

I tend to use ICE now. The only panoramas I have done are simple horizontal sweeps. I have tried up to 7 images and find ICE to be very good. I have also used Hugin which is also good, but does need much more work than ICE.

Dave

 

[Pookeyhead]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, as I said previously I have had little experiece of stitching never getting the join properly aligned but I just dragged the images on to this program and it worked, not sure I know whatyou mean about srgb though?

It's a problem if you didn't want your image in sRGB.