v3.7 [Mar 18, 2015]
- A brand new experience with the pixel-accurate & real-time panorama editor.
- Preview mode: your rendering, before even rendering it.
- Enhanced support for motorized panoramic heads.
v2.5 [Jun 29, 2010]
Detection engine: Kolor Autopano Synapse
Autopano Giga 2.5 has a new Synapse detection engine, fully multi-threaded for an impressive speed of detection, especially for the stitching of several dozens or hundreds of images. This feature was checked and validated by our partner Intel.
Optimization engine: Kolor Autopano Neurone
After the detection, the new Neurone optimization engine takes the results of the Synapse and applies on it the exclusive Autopano algorithms, especially the automatic color and exposure correction, for perfectly homogeneous panoramas, without seams.
The rendering engine: Kolor Autopano Cortex
The final stage in the creation of a panorama is what we call the rendering: the creation of the final panorama in full resolution into the desired format. The Cortex rendering engine integrates an enormous range of new features, especially a better correction of the moving objects, the HDR integrated support, a better use of the available processing power, an many new parameters.
New interface
Autopano Giga 2.5 has a new look! The dominant dark grey highlights your images as never before. The software ergonomics have also been enhanced.
Speed
Autopano Giga 2.5 is up to 6 times faster than the previous version (2.0.9).
Exposure fusion
Autopano Giga 2.5 integrates the exposure fusion. The application chooses the best colors of your bracketed images in order to automatically provide a natural and balanced image. Autopano Giga also allows to tune some fusion settings to improve the color correction.
New automatic color correction
The color and exposure correction was entirely revised. It is much easier now to choose the way the colors are blended. Get panoramas that are homogeneous in colors.
Improved correction of the moving objects
When a person or an object is moving, a classic image blending creates ghosts in the overlapping area. Autopano Giga 2.5 includes a new anti-ghost blender also applicable to gigapixel images. It is a world first.
Manual editor of control points
In difficult cases, Autopano Giga already proposed a control points editor allowing to force the application to add links into the areas you define. The 2.5 version goes even further, allowing the manual adding, point by point, of the links between neighboring images. There is no more reason to miss a stitch, even a complex one.
Multiple viewpoints
A real innovation, the management of the multiple viewpoints allows to assemble images that were not taken from the same spot. This allows a bigger tolerance for handheld shootings, but it mainly allows to stitch photos shot linearly (aerial photography for example).
Plug-ins
Autopano Giga 2.5 now has a plug-ins module; these small accessories improve some parts of the software. There are currently 3 plug-ins: Neutralhazer® to remove undesired haze, a plug-in supporting Adobe Lens Profile to correct the lens defects (see hereunder) and a plug-in to export image groups to third-party software.
Neutralhazer® reveals the landscapes
Autopano Giga 2.5 offers a strong tool that removes the haze from your photos: a function based on the latest scientific researches in the field of images. The application removes the white veil that covers certain panoramas of landscapes, not only by increasing the contrast but also by analyzing each pixel in order to reveal the colors.
Adobe Lens Profile support
A plug-in integrated into Autopano Giga takes into account the calibration profiles of Adobe Lens Profile Creator and automatically corrects the distortions, the chromatic aberrations and the vignetting according to your lens model.
