App update: AutoStitch

AutoStitch, which in my opinion is the best panoramic app currently available for the iPhone has just been updated to version 3.0, and now includes the following new features/enhancements.

- Available on iPod Touch
- High-quality blending option reduces blur where photos overlap
- Exposure compensation dramatically reduces brightness variation across scenes
- Share your creations by email or upload to Facebook

AppStore Link: AutoStitch - Price: £1.79/$2.99

[Posted from my iPad using iBlogger for iPhone]

Comments

[SGK3]

Getting a consistent exposure in a iPhone is pretty difficult so I was pretty excited to to see the update included exposure compensation. I upgraded the app and re-ran a set of images with a noticeable change in exposure. Unfortunately I can't see a difference between the two.

New update-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31365116@N07/4709854706/

Previous version-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31365116@N07/4709211701/

That being said I'm generally very happy with the results i get from Autostich. It is one of my favorite apps.

[SGK3]

By the way, I tried to embed the photos in the post using the flickr code, but that didn't work for me.

[SGK3]

Update: I found the options menu hidden under the info button at the top of the screen. The blending and exposure options are set in that menu and default to off. it does take a while longer to render with the options set, but it's probably worth it.

here is a link to the new image.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31365116@N07/4709955280/

The the difference in the sky is still there but much less noticeable.

[Bob Hearn]

Apologies... auto-exposure was supposed to be turned on by default. However, checking the code, I see that it is only turned on by default for new installations, not upgrades.

Best-quality blending is intentionally off by default, because it does add significant computational cost, and it is not necessary when the camera is kept in the same location for all images. With care this can be done well. This option's function is to compensate for slight camera motion, which causes objects in images to shift slightly relative to one another.