Arcsoft Panorama Maker 4

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $27.99

Features:

• Creates horizontal, vertical and 360° panorama pictures
• Turns a regular camera lens into a wide angle monster
• Automatically selects a whole group of photos with one click
• Orders and stitches pictures seamlessly
• Works with JPG and RAW image files

Customer Reviews:

Great for virtual tours [Posted on 2007-01-12]
We use this to seam together pictures for use in real estate. It works great, is easy to use and worth every dime.

Suprising results [Posted on 2007-03-18]
I recently bought a 1GB Fujifilm XD card and Panorama Maker 4 was included as a freebie. I was sceptical at first but i just followed the instructions and used a tripod (you must use a tripod) and the software stitches the photos together pretty much automatically. If you click on my name above you can see some examples on my homepage. I highly recommend this software to people wishing to capture the "feel" of a place...sometimes one photo just isnt enough.

PS: Horizontal, vertical and 360 degree panoramas are all possible with this software however ive only used 360 degree and horizonal ones so far. They turned out great!

ArcSoft Panorama Maker 4 [Posted on 2007-03-18]
While I enjoyed the free-trial version of this product, having inserted the software disc into the computer quickly became a nightmare. I was not given a license number to even allow me to go beyond a set-up screen. I also could not register the product and received no helpful information from ArcSoft, or whoever designed this software. With all the online manuals on their site for each product, one did not exist for Panorama Maker 4. I purchased and chose to have the actual software mailed instead of downloading, since the free-trial version refused to work the first time I attempted to use it. Definitely do not buy any ArcSoft products.

It's OK [Posted on 2007-12-18]
The Arcsoft Panorama Maker 4 is OK. If you have a simple picture series, it will work OK. However, if you start clustering shots with slightly odd angles, it produces a distorted image and not all of the edges align. The software doesn't save the panorama in layers, so you can't hand correct misalignments later. It's a pretty simple program, fun to play, but not a cure-all.

Not as expected [Posted on 2008-09-06]
Each month I take a series of pictures on the walls of a three sided room ( 180 degrees)off of a hallway for an art gallery web site. The result I want is a horizontal sliding picture, this program stitches the pictures into one non sliding picture and it also distorts the picture where the wall turns 90 degrees with an unusable result.I went to Arcsofts FYI page and others had the same question as to this result and were told that future updates would correct this and in fact make a sliding picture.I keep checking for an update and so far none, so the program does nothing for me.

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