Microsoft Image Composite Editor

Microsoft Image Composite Editor

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. Microsoft Image Composite Editor can save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of ways, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by several panorama viewers.

Features: State-of-the-art stitching engine Automatic exposure blending Choice of planar, cylindrical, or spherical projection Orientation tool for adjusting panorama rotation Automatic cropping to maximum image area Wide range of output formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, HD Photo, and multiresolution tiled formats for panorama viewers Support for "structured panoramas" — panoramas consisting of hundreds of photos taken in a rectangular grid of rows and columns No image size limitation — stitch gigapixel panoramas Support for input images with 8 or 16 bits per component Ability to read raw images using WIC codecs Photoshop layer and large document support Stitch directly from a video (only on Windows 7) Automatic lens vignette removal Native support for 64-bit operating systems Accelerated stitching on multiple CPU cores Options dialog to control memory usage and scratch disk locations