Yep. That's it.
Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St. Hubbins
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Harlan Howard
On Dec 26, 2012, at 19:29, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I assume this is the same free Autostitch that has been running on
> Windows for years and is now on the iThings as well
> <http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 12/26/2012 5:13 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:32 PM, jfwilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Much of my vacation time has been devoted to learning to use my phone
>>> adequately and to continue getting some use from my iPad 1.0. There had
>>> been a thread on photo apps a month or so ago. I guess I have a little to
>>> add to the subject.
>>>
>>> It appears that the trend in photo apps is 1) to make it easy to "lomo"
>>> your cellphone pics, and 2) to become your "cloud." I don't want either of
>>> these things, and so my evaluations are colored by that. I was intrigued
>>> to stumble on Photoshop Express, which is free I think because it wants to
>>> suck you into its own cloud structure.
>>
>> I've played with PSEx a bit on iOS, but not much. My main non-camera apps
>> are iPhoto and Autostitch. I love Autostitch. Autostitch is the one app
>> I've used more than anything else on my phone. And they just released an
>> iPad-native version. Autostitch is the killer app. I think I paid $1.99
>> originally, and it just rocks. Yes, with iOS6 you can do native panos on a
>> 4S or a 5, but those are single-frame-high horizontal pans.
>>
>> Autostitch, which is, by the way, my favorite iOS app ever (have I
>> mentioned just how much I love this app? Wanted to make sure.) can blend a
>> big pile of images and create up to an 18MP pano on the iPhone and up to
>> 36MP on the iPad. I've done plenty where I shoot a spread of 9 or 10 shots
>> straight ahead, then tilt up and shoot another overlapping spread above and
>> one below. I then open the app, just drop all of the images in, and the
>> thing is smart enough to figure out where they fit and just makes the magic
>> happen. The first time I tried Autostitch was on my 3GS, and it blew my
>> mind that a $2 app on a smartphone was doing a better job at blending than
>> many I've seen done in $500 software on full-sized computers.
>>
>> With the resolution of my iPhone 4S, I've gotten astounding results. Are
>> they as fantastic as 36 stitched 15MP images in Photoshop or whatever? Not
>> quite, but when you realize what you've just done with that tiny computer
>> in your hand, it's really freaky.
>>
>>
>> Paul Braun
>> Music Junkie
>>
>> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Harlan Howard
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