App: Panorama Stitcher
Developer: Olga Kacher
Genres: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design

Automatic panorama stitching application for Mac. Perfect for making high resolution images for large prints.

State of the art algorithm:
- Automatic alignment of source photos.
- Support for both spherical (rotated camera) and planar (scanner, microscope, maps etc.) stitching. 
- Handling of moving objects. Inconsistencies between images in intersections are minimized.
- Automatic exposure levelling and lens shading correction. 
- Equirectangular, rectilinear and stereographic projections for rendering.
- Automatic cropping algorithm.
- Accurate color handling. Output image is in the same color space as source images.
- EXIF tags from source files are merged to output.
- Photosphere tags support. Equirectangular panoramas are recognized on Facebook, Street View or any Photosphere-compatible viewer.

Simple and clean user interface:
- Just drag and drop images to start stitching. All editing controls are at hand.
- Straighten and rotate panorama as needed with projection editor. Hardware accelerated preview allows to see all changes in real time.
- Manual exposure correction and crop controls.
- Import in all image formats supported by Mac OS X, including all formats supported by Apple RAW.
- Export in JPG, TIFF and PNG formats.

Release notes:
This minor update fixes issue with inconsistent brightness of filled-in sky in some cases. 

Major update included:
- An option to use drone metadata in source images for more accurate stitching added. The most frequently asked drones which provide metadata are supported, please contact us if your drone is not supported yet.
- Fill missing sky/earth option added. 
- Stereographic projection added. It can be used to create little planet images from spherical panoramas.