
The first test is a 8-piece panorama of a complicated beach scene with over an hundred boats being disassembled after a race.

It holds the prize for stitching the world’s second largest digital panorama of 13 gigapixels. It retails for about US$145 (that’s $145 more than Live Photo Gallery for those of you without a calculator) and is considered one of the most advanced professional panorama creation tools today. The alternate stitching application I’m using is called Autopano Pro. Have a look at just how well it did and didn’t. To my surprise, it easily surpassed my expectations and could even give the professional applications a run for its money.

To find out, I’ve put it under some rigorous testing with what I think are some extreme stitching scenarios.

I mean this is a free application, how good can it be? When Microsoft shipped the first release of Windows Live Photo Gallery last November, I must admit I didn’t think too highly of the panoramic stitching feature they included in the application. Panoramic stitching is easier said than done.
