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Subject: Re: [OM] Applications for mobile devices
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:29:42 -0500
I assume this is the same free Autostitch that has been running on 
Windows for years and is now on the iThings as well
<http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html>

Chuck Norcutt


On 12/26/2012 5:13 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:32 PM, jfwilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Much of my vacation time has been devoted to learning to use my phone
>> adequately and to continue getting some use from my iPad 1.0.  There had
>> been a thread on photo apps a month or so ago.  I guess I have a little to
>> add to the subject.
>>
>> It appears that the trend in photo apps is 1) to make it easy to "lomo"
>> your cellphone pics, and 2) to become your "cloud." I don't want either of
>> these things, and so my evaluations are colored by that.  I was intrigued
>> to stumble on Photoshop Express, which is free I think because it wants to
>> suck you into its own cloud structure.
>>
>
> I've played with PSEx a bit on iOS, but not much.  My main non-camera apps
> are iPhoto and Autostitch.  I love Autostitch.  Autostitch is the one app
> I've used more than anything else on my phone.  And they just released an
> iPad-native version.  Autostitch is the killer app.  I think I paid $1.99
> originally, and it just rocks.  Yes, with iOS6 you can do native panos on a
> 4S or a 5, but those are single-frame-high horizontal pans.
>
> Autostitch, which is, by the way, my favorite iOS app ever (have I
> mentioned just how much I love this app?  Wanted to make sure.) can blend a
> big pile of images and create up to an 18MP pano on the iPhone and up to
> 36MP on the iPad.  I've done plenty where I shoot a spread of 9 or 10 shots
> straight ahead, then tilt up and shoot another overlapping spread above and
> one below.  I then open the app, just drop all of the images in, and the
> thing is smart enough to figure out where they fit and just makes the magic
> happen.  The first time I tried Autostitch was on my 3GS, and it blew my
> mind that a $2 app on a smartphone was doing a better job at blending than
> many I've seen done in $500 software on full-sized computers.
>
> With the resolution of my iPhone 4S, I've gotten astounding results.  Are
> they as fantastic as 36 stitched 15MP images in Photoshop or whatever? Not
> quite, but when you realize what you've just done with that tiny computer
> in your hand, it's really freaky.
>
>
> Paul Braun
> Music Junkie
>
> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Harlan Howard
>
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