Online magazine Digital Outback Photo began a review of Autopano Pro. The magazine intends to follow closely the evolution of Autopano Pro and will continue its review in diary form.

Last time that Uwe Steinmueller, editor of Digital Outback Photo, used image stitching software was more than 3 years ago. After having received recommandations for Autopano Pro, he decided to put the program to the test.

What he expected from an automatic image stitching program is:
* Automatic and excellent alignment
* Color blending to produce smooth color transitions
* Automatic lens corrections
* Good projections

You can read the entire review on its dedicated web page.

The editor concludes by explaining his interest of using Autopano Pro for his future projects, and qualifies Autopano Pro as “a real ‘auto’pano tool”, “easy and fun to use”.

Read the entire review
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Arnaud Frich and Kolor were awarded last week the 2008 Photo Innovation prize by French telecommunications company SFR (Vivendi), during the international photo meeting of Arles (France).

This prize rewards the project ‘Paris 20 Gigapixels’ that photographer Arnaud Frich and Kolor are planning to undertake this summer. Paris 20 Gigapixels will be world’s biggest image, with more than 2000 individual photos stitched together.

Here is a presentation video from SFR (in French):

A world record!

Photographer Arnaud FRICH and image stitching experts KOLOR, editor of panorama creation program Autopano Pro, announce their project to shoot Paris in a very high definition. The final image will be a stitching of more than 2000 individual photos and will have a resolution of 20 Gigapixels, that is 20 billion pixels: the biggest image of the world!

This resolution enables very exciting uses: printing on large supports (the image can be printed on a 6500 sq.ft support whilst keeping an excellent quality!) or online viewing with absolutely amazing deep zooming capabilities.

Gigapixel panoramas ? A habit for Kolor

This is not the first world record achived by Kolor and partner photographers. In August 2006, American photographer Gerard MAYNARD collaborated with Kolor to produce the world record at that time: Harlem 13 Gigapixels. You can have a look at the image and zoom in to see the smallest details of Harlem: http://www.harlem-13-gigapixels.com

Stay tuned!

The project is to be acheived during this summer. You will be able to see the image on the website www.paris-20-gigapixels.com. Visit regularly that website to learn more about the project and be among the firsts to see this beautiful image.