As I intended my prints to be viewed up close, rather than from a respectable distance, I went down the Epson R220 home printing route.
What is arcsoft panorama maker 4 trial#
However, they did offer to do a trial print at £96 for one around 1 to 1.2m wide. After checking out several commercial printers websites and also the websites of Epson & HP (for the specs of their large format printers), I tried a local print bureau and was unable to get straight answers to my questions about actual print resolution etc. (The banding is visible on the example around where the tower cranes are, and the stitching has gone wrong here due to the waves on the Mersey confusing it.)Ĭlick to expand.Yes, I did. If anyone uses Panorama Maker 5 and it can produce a set of prints with no data loss at the print joins, I'd be interested to hear. Judicious cloning in Photoshop after application of USM can remove it.
What is arcsoft panorama maker 4 software#
This is particularly noticeable in sky areas, and may be due to a camera foible, but as it appears with two different cameras with different sizes of mirror box, I guess it's a software "feature". My reason for trying Arcsoft earlier is that Canon's PhotoStitch appears to produce vertical banding around the joints.
*I'd say it's several mm of data that's lost at each join, and very noticeable with a detail rich image. The lack of USM is annoying, but the loss of data* between prints is a real killer, and I can't see the point in buying version 5 unless this has been fixed. It can stitch a 2-up/2-down composite and appears to have done this perfectly on my monitor and it offers the facility of automatically sizing the print(s) over several abutting sheets - except that in the trial I've just done it loses data between sheets, and there appears to be no way of adding some USM prior to printing. I've also used ArcSoft's Panorama Maker 4 (free download) which on the surface appears to offer rather more automation. This has involved quite a bit of careful thought and several different print offsets to produce the set of prints which are then carefully cut to width/length before being Sellotaped together.Įxample - Liverpool waterfront, 5D, EF 70-200 F4L, Oct 2009
I've then used Photoshop USM (to sharpen up the detail) prior to printing over several sheets of borderless A4 on my Epson R220. I dabble with mainly horizontal panoramas shot with my Eos 5D or 50D, and processed most frequently in Canon's PhotoStitch.