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First Look: Create panoramic photos with Pano for iPhone

by Steven Sande Oct 17th 2008 at 1:00PM

Panoramic picture taken with iPhone and Panorama software

Debacle Software has just released Pano (App Store link), an iPhone app that creates panoramic pictures from multiple iPhone photos -- up to four in one panorama.

Making panoramas is quite simple. You begin by launching the app on the iPhone, at which time you're asked to take your first picture. Pano prompts you to use or retake the photo, and if you choose to use it, you're given the opportunity to take the second picture. Pano overlays a transparent version of the rightmost portion of the previous picture over the left hand side of the image (see below), providing a guide for aligning the pictures. (Sorry about the ringer icon -- I bumped the ringer volume button while making the screenshot)


The process is repeated for up to four photos. If you take three shots and don't want to take a fourth, you can cancel, at which time you're given the option to quit, continue taking pictures, or make the panorama (see below). The last step displays a "merging" progress bar, during which time Pano's proprietary process is stitching the photos together.


The final panorama is placed into the iPhone Photos library, where it can be emailed or synced with iPhoto. Pano costs $2.99, well worth the price for what you get.



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bc

somebody mentioned the free app PanoLab
- I've been playing with that one and I can tell you it simply overlays one image on top of the previous, after you manually line it up.

i.e. it doesn't do ANY blending of the images, so results are really not very impressive from PanoLab. the latest update lets you manually realign images after they've been placed, and even lets you bring photos that were behind up to the front. it does let you overlay as many photos as you'd like, in X and Y directions, which is kinda cool. but I'd said it's more of a photo-mosaic/overlay tool, than a true pano application.

this Pano program mentioned in this article looks MUCH more useful, including the way it helps you pre-align your next shot before you capture it (just like my Canon digicam does). Hopefully they add capability for more than 4 images.

I will be purchasing it to give it a try, $2.99 seems a reasonable price. Thanks TUAW for bringing it to our attention!

October 22 2008 at 12:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
.Trashes

I like the strings.

October 19 2008 at 4:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Roger Bornand

it is simply perfect, but 72 dpi...

October 19 2008 at 9:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
russ d

Just tried it out, works great. Kept crashing at first, but after a restart, golden.
2659 x 585 px resolution.

October 19 2008 at 12:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Roger Bornand

How did you get a resolution of 2659 x 585 px? Dd you resize the picture after the shot?

October 20 2008 at 2:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Caitlin

What's the best panoramic app for the mac?

October 18 2008 at 2:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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bc

I like DoubleTake for stitching panoramas on the Mac

give the demo a try, it's fully functional - it just puts a watermark on the final pano until you decide to buy.

http://echoone.com/DoubleTake/

October 22 2008 at 12:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel D

If you are so sorry about the ringer icon why didn't you just retake the screen shot there and then it would have taken about 3 seconds.

October 18 2008 at 10:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Caitlin

That's what I was trying to figure out.

October 18 2008 at 2:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian

this is absolutely fantastic...exactly what i was looking for!!!!

thanks!!

http://www.livbit.com

October 17 2008 at 8:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael

@mark:

Thanks for the info.

October 17 2008 at 8:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael

I like Cycorder, but does anyone know how you can actually transfer the videos to your computer or something like that?

October 17 2008 at 5:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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mark

You transfer the videos using SSH. Saurik said at some point he may incorporate a better method into the program.

I have a tutorial for how to get the videos off the phone and convert them for sharing with others, or for placing them into your iPod section of the phone so they will play there

http://www.hackthatphone.com/20/iphone_cycorder_video_sharing.html

October 17 2008 at 7:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jared

Where is that picture with the flag pole taken??? In CO??? Where in CO???

Thanks!!!

October 17 2008 at 2:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Steven Sande

You guessed it, Jared! It's in Highlands Ranch near the Tresana development on University Boulevard.

TUAWSteve

October 17 2008 at 3:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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