![]() ![]() I still don't understand now, because that $20 is the cost of a re-install and thus a serious disincentive against even bothering to download and install when ICE and Hugin are up-to-date, entirely free, and always re-installable without charge. Though PhotoStitcher 1.6 - when it actually worked for me: the program crashed too often for comfort - has a few gimmicks absent from both ICE and Hugin, nothing in its performance, still less its GUI and ease-of-use, came anywhere near the quality standard set by the freeware competition.īack in August 2014, I didn't understand why Teorex was trying to sell PhotoStitcher as a $20 commercial product. Today's offer from Teorex is of software unchanged from the GAOTD of August 2014, something I have to say comes as a surprise because if this developer is serious about challenging the supremacy of Microsoft (Windows) and Hugin (Mac) then it needs to keep the product as up to date as its freeware rivals. ![]() Unlike ICE, Hugin is cross-platform, so works as effortlessly on a Mac as it does on a Windows computer. Hugin, like ICE, is continuously developed. I work with images a lot, so was interested in Teorex's panorama maker the last time it was offered here, and downloaded and road-tested it against the then version of Microsoft ICE as well as the long established Open Source panorama app, Hugin, which in some ways is even better than Microsoft ICE: I'm not a big fan of Microsoft but have to say that when it gets it right, the results are impressive. In its latest guise, both 64-bit and 32-bit versions are offered. Microsoft Research created and released its panorama app - ICE (Image Composite Editor) - several years ago and has continued to update it ever since. "Panorama Makers" from commercial developers used to be plentiful, costing up to $49 in some cases, but the majority of those developers have quit this particular software genre because there's no point in trying to charge for a Windows app when the actual creator of Windows provides it entirely free. ![]()
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