Panoweaver

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Panoweaver
Panoweaver-logo.jpg
Developer(s) Easypano Holdings Inc.
Stable release
10.02.181015 / October 15, 2018;23 months ago (2018-10-15)
Written in C, C++
Operating system Windows, macOS
Available inEnglish, Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, French
License Commercial proprietary software
Website easypano.com

Panoweaver supports telephoto, normal, wide angle and fisheye lens images into full 360*180 spherical panoramic image. [1] Panoweaver also supports exporting 360 panoramic images into Flash VR, QuickTime VR, Java-based VR tours and swf, and publish on Facebook. [2]

Contents

The 'free trial version' of Panoweaver is fully functional but creates panoramas with embedded visible watermarks.

Panoweaver pro also includes HDR and tone mapping support.

List of features

[3]

FeaturePanoweaver StdPanoweaver Pro
Automatic stitching: create panoramas YESYES
Manual mode: full control over the resultYESYES
Live preview: see the effect of settings, without the need to stitch firstYESYES
Multi row panoramas: images can be stacked both horizontally and verticallyYESYES
Stitch rotated and tilted imagesYESYES
Support for JPEG, TIFF and PNG source imagesYESYES
Create panoramas in JPEG, TIFF or Photoshop formatYESYES
Photoshop large document (.psb) supportYESYES
Layered Photoshop output, ideal for retouchingYESYES
Full support for 16 bit images, for the best image qualityYESYES
Create templates with frequently used settingsYESYES
QTVR outputYESYES
Flash outputYESYES
HTML5 outputYESYES
Branding free-YES
Batch stitcher: stitch 300 panoramas in one time.-YES
Stitch and blend HDR source images into an HDR panorama-YES
Stitch and blend bracketed LDR source images into an HDR panorama-YES
Calculate camera response curve from bracketed LDR source images-YES
Built in tone mapper-YES
Support for OpenEXR (.exr) and HDR Radiance (.hdr) source images-YES
Blend Priority parameter (useful for blending the nadir image in a spherical panorama)-YES
Viewpoint correction-YES
Vignetting, exposure and white balance correction-YES
Global adjustment of exposure and white balance-YES
Exposure Fusion-YES
64 bit version-YES

See also

Hugin is an open source alternative also based on Panorama Tools

Further reading

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References

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