Image stitcher for panorama creation

[Bill Oliver]

On Wed, 15 May 2013, Tethys wrote:

> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>
> yum install hugin. It's the best tool for the job.[snip]


Ditto.  Many years ago, I used a tool called Montage from Caltech. It had a significant learning curve and was picky about image formats, but it is possible to get good results.

There's also a stitching plugin for ImageJ.  See:
http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Image_Stitching

Other possibilities include:

Panotools-ng: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PanoToolsNG/
I've played with it some time ago, and got it to work with toy images.

There appears to be a GIMP plugin, but I've never used it:
http://stitchpanorama.sourceforge.net/

But, fundamentally, none of them are as easy to use as hugin, and I agree that I'd try that first and only deal with the learning curves/installation/prodding with the others if hugin doesn't work out.