DoubleTake for Panoramas
I’ve been looking for a serviceable and effective panorama-creation tool, preferably free, but I just might need to bite the bullet and drop the $16 for DoubleTake (Mac OS X only). It’s amazingly easy to use, and it produces excellent results.
Take, for example, this image, which I carefully stitched together in Photoshop (a time-consuming process) and still couldn’t get rid of the transitions between individual photos:
Now, check out the DoubleTake version, which I did in just a couple minutes of dragging, dropping, and saving (best viewed Large or bigger):
Here’s another example of an attempt at a panorama with Photoshop:
and its DoubleTake counterpart (again, best viewed Large or bigger):
Though it’s true that the Photoshop versions would look a lot better if I had any skills, that’s hardly the point. DoubleTake is easy without skills and produces brilliant results.
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Brian Sawyer 
Anonymous 3:11 pm on June 21, 2006 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Wonderful. Wish it was not just for Mac…. I would use this – and the price is nice!
Mom
Chloroform 1:12 pm on August 5, 2006 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Try Autostitch. I don’t know if there’s a Mac version but it’s freeware that does the job quite competently. There isn’t a help file so the learning curve’s a bit steep, but worth the time if you’re dedicated.