Mac OS Panorama Maker Software from STOIK

STOIK Imaging, a software company headquatered in Moscow, today announced the release of their STOIK PanoramaMaker for Mac, a Mac OS version of their Windows panorama image making tool. Creating a wide angle image by stitching together several smaller digital images is a common feature of photo editing software. But most of them have a problem rendering moving objects in the shots, introducing misshapen or blurry images and marring your painstaking work.

STOIK PanoramaMaker for Mac is designed to alleviate the problem with a specialized algorithm they call Object-Preserving Blending, which allows for moving object blur, stitching exposures together with no errors. Other features include manual matching of images, lens and geometrical compensation, minimizing uneven brightness, double-edge defect and curves in a picture.

Creating a panoramic image takes only 3 steps in the application; adding images, selection of stitching mode, and rendering the result. The automatic image transformation, alignment and color blending are all fully optimized for correcting differences in brightness, color balance, and camera tilt angle, taking much of the tedious matching work out of the process.

PanoramaMaker also assembles automatically the horizontal, vertical, 360-degree and tiled panoramas. The latest version even adds automatic creation of tiled panorama from several rows of photos, as well as panorama creation from photos taken with different focal lengths. For experts, images can be still be assembled and stitched manually.

Price and Availability-
STOIK PanoramaMaker for Mac costs 39 USD for a single-user license. A fully trial version can be downloaded at the STOIK site. The software requires MacOS 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 100 MB hard drive space and 512 MB DDR RAM