Panoweaver is an image stitching app. It supports telephoto, normal, wide angle and fisheye lens images into full 360*180 spherical panoramic image. Panoweaver also supports exporting 360 panoramic images into Flash VR, QuickTime VR, Java-based VR tours and swf, and publish on Facebook.
The 'free trial version' of Panoweaver is fully functional but creates panoramas with embedded visible watermarks.
Panoweaver pro also includes HDR and tone mapping support.
List of features
Feature Panoweaver Std Panoweaver Pro Automatic stitching: create panoramas YES YES Manual mode: full control over the result YES YES Live preview: see the effect of settings, without the need to stitch first YES YES Multi row panoramas: images can be stacked both horizontally and vertically YES YES Stitch rotated and tilted images YES YES Support for JPEG, TIFF and PNG source images YES YES Create panoramas in JPEG, TIFF or Photoshop format YES YES Photoshop large document (.psb) support YES YES Layered Photoshop output, ideal for retouching YES YES Full support for 16 bit images, for the best image quality YES YES Create templates with frequently used settings YES YES QTVR output YES YES Flash output YES YES HTML5 output YES YES Branding free - YES Batch stitcher: stitch 300 panoramas in one time. - YES Stitch and blend HDR source images into an HDR panorama - YES Stitch and blend bracketed LDR source images into an HDR panorama - YES Calculate camera response curve from bracketed LDR source images - YES Built in tone mapper - YES Support for OpenEXR (.exr) and HDR Radiance (.hdr) source images - YES Blend Priority parameter (useful for blending the nadir image in a spherical panorama) - YES Viewpoint correction - YES Vignetting, exposure and white balance correction - YES Global adjustment of exposure and white balance - YES Exposure Fusion - YES 64 bit version - YES
See also Hugin is an open source alternative also based on Panorama Tools
Further reading Jacobs, Corinna - Interactive Panoramas: Techniques for Digital Panoramic Photography Andrews, Philip - 360 Degree Imaging: The Photographers Panoramic Virtual Reality Manual
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