PanaVue ImageAssembler stands as a professional yet accessible photo stitching software. Extremely powerful though deceivingly simple. It is meant for any type of users, from the beginner to the most experienced.

Panoramas
PanaVue ImageAssembler lets you assemble multiple photos to build genuine mosaics or restore vast panoramas. It can easily wrap a complete 360º panorama. Images can be saved in most common formats (bmp, tiff, jpeg, pict, targa, etc) but also in the QuickTime® VR format from Apple. Once saved in this format, images can be visualized in Virtual Reality with QuickTIme Viewer. They can also be published directly on the web and displayed in Netscape or Microsoft Explorer browsers (with the QuickTime plug-in).

Publishing
Very robust, PanaVue ImageAssembler has also been designed to work on very high resolution images, with dimensions over 500 MB*, making it perfectly appropriate for stitching photos meant for high quality graphic printing.

* This size is for Windows NT/2000/XP, it is about half this size for Windows 95/98/ME.

Increased scanner capacities
Very versatile, its TWAIN compatibility lets it directly import images from a scanner. It then becomes extremely easy, with PanaVue ImageAssembler, to digitize an image which dimensions exceed those of the scanner. All you have to do is scan the image in multiple parts and stitch them back together. As in photo stitching, the precision obtained is so good that it is usually impossible to tell that you are looking at a rebuilt image.

Photo montage
You may make a montage out of aerial and satellite photos, multiple photos of a painting, a blue print, a map, or a microscope slide, medical imagery. ImageAssembler provides a precise and easy way to assemble pictures of a single flat subject shot in multiple parts. Ideal for stitching aerial or satellite photos for cartography, multiple photos of a painting, a blue print, a plan, or a map, in fact any case where the camera is moved over a relatively flat subject while kept perpendicular to it.

Easy Interface
The interface amounts to merely little flags (or markers) that you simply click and drag with your mouse to pinpoint the way you want images to be stitched. On request, PanaVue ImageAssembler assists you in this task thanks to a powerful image recognition algorithm.

This approach, using markers to indicate stitching points, gives PanaVue ImageAssembler the special ability to work with tilted cameras and very high resolution files. But probably more important, it lets you, the user, keep complete control on how the images are stitched. At any time you can deactivate the "marker assistant" and manually place markers to precise stitching points allowing you to successfully stitch images that were not taken under ideal conditions.

Powerful Features
PanaVue ImageAssembler warps, color adjusts, and blends images. It automatically adjusts itself to any lens* focal length and works perfectly even with a tilted camera. In the all automatic mode, images are even positioned by the software.

*: supported lenses are: any rectilinear lens, lenses with some degree of distortion like zoom lenses and some wide-angle lenses that are not purely rectilinear, 16mm full-frame fisheyes.

Main Features:  

works with high resolution (multi-megabytes) pictures

does cylindrical and spherical (equirectangular) projections

blends images with an "intelligent" blending algorithm to remove double images and blurring

does automatic color-matching

uses full pictures (not just thumbnails) for full zooming capacities to bring manual corrections when needed

can assemble a "mosaic" of images (multi-rows, multi-columns)

works with a tilted camera

corrects lens radial distortion (pin-cushion and barrel)

automatically adjusts itself to any rectilinear (e.g. standard) camera lens and full-frame fisheyes (16mm)

saves panoramas in QuickTime VR format

TWAIN compatible