You Need to look for a panoramic digital camera to capture images in panoramic format (full 360 degree shot). Alternately, you can take some photos and merge them together to create the elongated fields of view. The latter of course is cheaper as you can use any camera. However, there is a lot of retouching work to be done in order to create an ideal image in panoramic view. Microsoft is aware of this problem faced by users, hence it has introduced its Microsoft Image Composite Editor 1.2 to help users to stitch their photographs faster and more efficiently.
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image retouching program. Photographers can stitch or join a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location with this application
to create a high-resolution image in panorama format and save it to various simple formats, e.g. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc. It also allows users to save their work to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom.
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is available free of charge for users. However, Microsoft has clarified that there is no official support given on this application at this point of time. A summary of the features for this application is as follows: -
- State-of-the-art stitching algorithms automatically place source images and determine panorama type
- Advanced orientation adjustment view allows planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections
- Support for different types of camera motion
- Excellent exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm
- Automatic cropping to maximum image area
- No image size limitation - stitch gigapixel panoramas
- Native support for 64-bit operating systems such as 64-bit Vista
Download Microsoft Image Composite Editor from here
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