Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009

Go above and beyond photo-merging
Create high-quality panoramas and virtual tours in just a few clicks. Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009 photo-stitching software empowers professional and amateur photographers, graphics professionals, and multimedia artists to automatically merge a variety of images to create wide angle images or spherical panoramas.

Stitch your pictures together automatically--horizontally, vertically, or both--to create spherical panoramas--up to 360 degrees horizontal by 180 degrees vertical. Click to enlarge.

Stitcher Unlimited 2009 goes above and beyond most photo-merging software, immersing you in a 360-degree environment for advanced-stitching of high-resolution photography. The results are breathtaking--whether you are creating virtual tours for the web and multimedia, matte paintings for movies, or poster-size panoramic prints to hang on the wall.

"Stitcher Unlimited is incredibly easy to use...It works like magic. In a previous age, the creators of this product would have been subjected to ducking stools, dropped into local ponds or burnt at the stake for witchcraft. It really is that good."
Martyn Day, Develop 3D, www.develop3d.com

"Stitcher is a professional tool that produces stunning panoramas. If you're serious about making panoramas, try Stitcher Unlimited. You'll be impressed."
Dave Huss, Photoshop User magazine, www.photoshopuser.com

Create a spherical interactive Apple QuickTime VR (QTVR) movie for the Web. The result is a virtual tour directly published from Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited to an HTML page. Click on the image above for a virtual tour.

Click on the image to take a walk on the beach!

Stitcher Unlimited: Ridiculously easy. Seriously professional.
With Stitcher Unlimited 2009 software's highly intuitive user interface, you can become productive in as little as one hour! Stitching, alignment, and color corrections are done automatically, or you can choose to stay in control with manual stitching. Stitcher Unlimited 2009 offers in-depth support for industry standard, high dynamic range images (HDRI). It is much more than just photo-merging software: you can directly create virtual tours in multiple web-compatible formats with Apple QuickTime.

Ideal for:
Professional photographers
Amateur photographers
Graphic designers
Multimedia professionals
3D artists
Architects

Broaden your horizons
Why restrict your creative vision to just 180 degrees? With Stitcher Unlimited 2009, you can create up to 360-degree panoramas--side to side and up and down--for an immersive experience. A 3D viewport allows you to place the viewer at the center of the spherical panorama. Choose between flat, spherical, cylindrical, or cubical projection modes.

Take a walk on the wide side
Create amazing virtual tours by exporting your panorama in various web-compatible formats; Apple QuickTime VR, Adobe Flash, and Java. Create hotspots and link your panoramas together to move from one virtual location to another.

Just click 'n' stitch
A five-step workflow and automatic stitching engine make it very easy to learn to use Stitcher Unlimited 2009: 1. Import photographs. 2. Stitch. 3. Align. 4. Touch up if needed. 5. Render your panorama.

A panorama from any camera
Use your camera, your grandmother's, or your buddy Zach's. Wherever the image comes from Stitcher Unlimited detects the lens and settings used to take a photo, including aperture and focal length, and can stitch together different images, from rectilinear to fisheye. Stitching together a simple panorama is nearly as quick as shooting the photos--use just two or three images or as many as your project calls for.

Let it work for you--or do it yourself
"For those users who are keenly interested in panorama creation, and who are looking for flexibility beyond auto functions, Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009 is the ideal solution."
Joern-Erik Burkert, PCgo magazine

Not only does Stitcher Unlimited automate the stitching process, it also delivers automatic alignment and color correction. Flexible manual tools for specialized stitching give advanced users additional control.

Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited allows you to import several exposures to create HDR (high dynamic range) images or tone mapped images. You can also directly import HDR or EXR images in 32 bits. Click to enlarge.

Movies can be created by rotating or zooming a virtual camera around the central point of the panorama, and rendered at a user-defined resolution or frame rate and output to AVI or MOV format using any available codec. Click to enlarge.

Pro-quality results with a few clicks
"If you're looking to take panoramic or HDR photography seriously, Stitcher Unlimited is perfect."
Simon Skellon, Photoshop Creative, www.photoshopcreative.co.uk

Create exceptionally high-quality environment maps and panoramas through support for EXR and high dynamic range (HDR) input and output.

Turn digital stills into movies
Create a movie by rotating or zooming a virtual camera around the central point of the panorama. A timeline editor lets you add, remove, or edit key frames. Then choose the resolution and frame rate you want, render your movie, and output it in AVI or MOV format.

The Stencil toolset facilitates artifact removal (moving objects in the overlapping regions) as well as the correction of anomalies such as ghosting and lens flare. Click to enlarge.

Output large-size panoramic prints in a variety of image formats.Click to enlarge.

Fix your pics
Remove artifacts--distracting objects or blurry cars or people--using the Stencil toolset. Stitcher Unlimited 2009 supports multiple blending, sharpening, and interpolation methods, including Smart Blend.

Photoshop export/import
Stitcher Unlimited 2009 is interoperable with Adobe Photoshop. Images can be imported along with their masks, and stitched panoramas can be exported with their blending masks--enabling highly precise image touch-up.

Think big!
Output large-size panoramic prints in a variety of image formats. Custom sizes are supported, too.

Fully Automatic Process
With an automatic process, Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited photo stitching software enables professional photographers, multimedia artists, and photography enthusiasts to create panoramas from overlapping pictures shot from a single point of view. Not only does Stitcher Unlimited automate the stitching process, it delivers automatic alignment and color correction.

Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited is compatible with a variety of lenses, from rectilinear to fish-eye formats. Using fish-eye lenses allows you to create spherical panoramas with fewer images. Click to enlarge.

Image and Lens Support

Support for Spheres
Stitch together a variety of images, from rectilinear to fish-eye to create fully spherical panoramas--up to 360 degrees horizontal by 180 degrees vertical.

Fish-eye Lens Support
Import as few as two or three images and obtain a panorama in about the same amount of time it took to shoot the photos. Using the Double Shot feature you can assemble two images acquired in opposite directions using a fish-eye lens with a field of view larger than 180 degrees to quickly create a panorama covering the whole viewing sphere in only 2 minutes. Stitcher Unlimited also takes into account the specific distortion parameters of the Sunex fish-eye lens.

Automatic Lens Detection
Based on properties of the image, Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited detects the type of lens used to take a photo, including lens properties such as aperture and focal length. It then uses this information to produce high-quality results.

Panorama Import
Existing panoramas can be imported into Stitcher Unlimited 2009 for modification (for example, to make a spherical panorama a QuickTime VR panorama).

How Professionals Use Stitcher Unlimited Photographer Michael Eleftheriades recently created an online virtual tour of the interior of Grays of Westminster, a charming period shop specializing in Nikon using Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited. "The images were stitched in Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited, our preferred stitching tool," explains Eleftheriades, "mainly due to its immediate visual feedback and for its HDR capabilities." "It was decided at the start of the project that the best way to approach the virtual tour from the user perspective would be to include plans of the spaces," explains Eleftheriades. "This was not only to display the relationship of the spaces to each other, but also to reinforce the idea that collectively, they are all essential parts of the whole enterprise. The rooms were thus measured in detail, and two- and three-dimensional isometric 'cut-away' projections were constructed in Nemetschek's VectorWorks package. These were exported to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3 where the interactive logic was created." Take the virtual tour of Grays of Westminster. http://www.graysofwestminster.co.uk/tour/

Image-Based Lighting Support

Support for EXR and HDR
Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited supports OpenEXR and radiance RGB HDR, two file formats that contain information coded in 16 or 32 bits per channel, for high dynamic range imagery. You can load bracketed LDR (low dynamic range) images to stack them to create HDR (high dynamic range) images or tone mapped images. Stitcher can also import existing HDR images, stitch each picture in 32 bits, and enable you to adjust the lighting in the viewport in real time. The panorama can then be exported directly in 32 bits to a 3D software package.

Environment Map Support
HDR panoramic images can be used to create sophisticated environment maps that can then be exported to Autodesk Mudbox digital sculpting and texture painting software, Autodesk 3ds Max, or Autodesk Maya 3D modeling and animation software.

Web Publishing Support

QuickTime VR Hotspot Support
Create Apple QuickTime VR (QTVR) application program hotspots and links integrated within a panorama that reference another panorama, allowing the end user to move from one virtual location to another. Define any number of hotspots of any shape, including arrows placed on doors, windows, and other openings.

Supported Web Formats
Stitcher Unlimited 2009 supports embedded publishing formats--Apple QuickTime VR, Adobe Flash, or Java players--through the ImmerVision Panoramas (IVP) file format. It also supports global positioning system (GPS) data of the panorama, which can be specified in files saved in KML format for the Google Earth mapping service. You can also create HTML pages to display panoramas directly in a web browser.

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GPU Acceleration

Preview Renders
Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited is optimized to take advantage of graphics card GPUs (graphics processing units) for fast preview rendering in the main viewport.

Rendering Productivity
The GPU accelerator also speeds final renders, reducing render times by as much as 30 percent.

Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited provides interoperability with Adobe Photoshop for advanced retouching. Click to enlarge.

Touch-up and Photoshop Interoperability

Image Retouching
The Stencil toolset facilitates artifact removal (moving objects in the overlapping regions) as well as the correction of anomalies such as ghosting and lens flare. The image can also be exported to Adobe Photoshop software for retouching.

Tripod Cap
The tripod cap feature provides a user-specified tripod cap with automatic alignment so you can hide the tripod at the bottom of the image. You can choose one of your own images or use the included tripod-cap image. The image, which can be a TIFF with an alpha mask, will be positioned at the bottom of the current 3D view and oriented in the direction of the 3D view.

Adobe Photoshop Support
Stitcher Unlimited 2009 provides interoperability with Adobe Photoshop image-editing software--supporting the import of images with their masks and the export of the stitched panorama with blending masks for highly precise image touch-up.

Smart Blend
The software supports multiple blending, sharpening and interpolation methods, including "Smart Blend."

Rendering

Crop Tool
The Crop Tool (Render Area), which can be used to define a render zone, is now available in full-screen mode--creating a very fast, efficient workflow.

Choice of Panorama Projection
Several projection modes are available for panoramic pictures: flat (as seen in the preview window), spherical, cylindrical, or cubical (6 faces of a cube).

Rendering with Templates
Panoramas can be rendered with HTML templates, streamlining the review and publishing processes.

Movies
Movies can be created by rotating or zooming a virtual camera around the central point of the panorama. A timeline editor enables you to add, remove, or edit key frames. Movies can be rendered at a user-defined resolution or frame rate and output to AVI or MOV format using any available codec.

Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited employs a highly intuitive user interface that enables you to become productive in as little as one hour. A full 3D viewport allows you to place yourself at the center of the panoramic view. Click to enlarge.

User Interface and Workflow

Five-step Workflow
A five-step workflow and automatic engine make it very easy to learn and use Stitcher Unlimited 2009. The workflow consists of image import, stitching, alignment, touch-up, and rendering.

Display
A full 3D viewport allows you to place yourself at the center of the panoramic view. For those more comfortable working in 2D, a full screen 2D view is also supported, and you can move between the 3D and 2D views in one click. The productivity-enhancing Stitcher Unlimited user interface remains the same no matter which of the two views the user selects.

Redesigned User Interface
Stitcher Unlimited employs a highly intuitive user interface that enables you to become productive in as little as one hour. The look and feel of Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited has been recently improved through the addition of new icons and a new palette to manage thumbnails more efficiently.

Printing

Large Format Printing
Stitcher Unlimited 2009 enables photographers to produce large-sized panoramic prints.

Print Output
Artists can output to a variety of image formats, with support for adjustable parameters. Back to the top