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The following comments were copied from CNET where Quickage has received 5 of 5 stars. Search for Quickage at CNET Download. User mwooge -- "Simple to use, works great." Pros Slow, but works well. Better than my manual stitch. watermark. Easy to use: steer to the picture folder, select, click on "Generate Montage". Accepts JPG and TIF images and can save in those formats. Cons Pricey, but worth it if you need flawless photo stitching. Summary Output from my test photos was perfect. I could not tell where the images were connected, despite a slight mis-alignment of the scans and uneven lighting. My test images were a scan of an antique, B&W panoramic photo, 8" x 44", scanned in as six TIF images at about 78M each. Output photo was 386 megabytes.User -- hikergirl -- "phenomenal result" Pros I gave it 5 film frames of a mountain overlook. The result was so wonderful, I couldn't wait to share it with the world. The company told me I could have obtained the same result with 3 frames.Cons MS continually stopped at approx. 27% upload. Had to contact DualAlign. All views were stuck in its server. The gentleman who helped me was so gracious and patient. I don't know if we ever discovered the problem, but I did get my finished product. Summary For someone who has a long way to go before calling herself competent with any software, I was extremely pleased with the result. Because the panoramic came in a compressed 4x6 image, which I forwarded electronically to Walgreens, I was charged only for a 4x6, not a 4x12. Excellent software and ease of use.User train5boy -- "Great fully automatic panorama software" Pros Just select the images to assemble and click the "generate montage" button to get a fantastic panorama. Does not require any pre alignment of images. Automatically corrects for changes in camera position between shots, no need for a "pano-head"Cons Panorama generation is not instantanious, but is far faster than software that requires you to arrange the images first. Summary This software does an amazing job of automatically generating montages or panoramas. Gone are the days when a good panorama required a superb camera mounted on a "pano-head" so it would rotate about the lens nodal (or no-parallax) point. If you have such a setup, use it with this software to easily produce as good or better a panorama as anything else out there. But even with a hand held camera, you can get great panoramas with minimal effort. The software will automatically correct for parallax and differences in exposure between shots to give a seamless image. I had a set of 17 images taken of my living room which it assembled flawlessly. I tried to "break" it by giving it a set of 3 images where the third image was taken from the center of the area seen in the first image, and it did a remarkably good job of assembling them. Overall an amazing piece of software, highly recommended for anyone who take pictures.Reply by barbibistro Nice review. I agree, the software worked great for me as well. It was a rather easy install and even easier to use. I loved how well it did with the shots I took by hand. User Blue-Vision -- "Easy to use and excellent panorama" Pros- Easy to use: Just pick images and click the "generate" button. - Auto-cropping is useful. It saves me time from loading the panorama into an image editor and applying the cropping by myself. - Nice and pretty panorama! Haven't run into any pro. Cons I have not yet found real cons of this software. If one must be named, the software is a bit slow during processing. Summary In general, I like this software. It does exactly what I want to do --- generation of panorama without manual intervention. |