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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
PanoPrinter
Vendor: ImmerVision
Purpose: Dedicated software for printing panoramic images
Description
PanoPrinter is a tool for editing, retouching, and printing all photographs and
panoramic images. It allows you to fit a panorama to the page, adjust color, brightness
and contrast, change the viewpoint, and crop the image. It supports extra-large prints
of up to 15 meters, making it suitable for creating stunning wall decorations. Special
effects include sepia, etching, paint, and lens flare.
PanoPrinter supports all paper formats and can print out assembly information such as
page numbers, alignment marks, and margins so that multi-page printouts can be easily
reconstructed. It is designed specifically for print use, not for creating the sort of Web
panoramas you often see on real estate sites. You can use a standard inkjet printer to
produce the output.
Comments
Printing out panoramic material presupposes that you have some kind of threedimensional
structure on which to fix it, otherwise the projection distorts the image so
dramatically it makes very little sense. PanoPrinter tiles the image so that it gets printed
on multiple sheets of paper that can be fitted to a curved wall. At the time of writing,
this package is the only one dedicated to panoramic printing. The vendor is primarily
a supplier of panomorph lenses, CCTV equipment, and plug-ins for 360-degree
video/IP surveillance.
Version: PanoPrinter 1.1 (2008)
OS: Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, and XP
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: IVP (ImmerVision panoramas file format) and standard image formats
Price level: Approx. $50
Address: ImmerVision Inc., 2020 University, Suite 2420, H3A 2A5 Montréal, QC, Canada
www.immervision.com
PanoStitcher
Vendor: Pixtra Corp
Purpose: Create a 360-degree panorama from a row of images, with or without a tripod