Freeware Find: Hugin Photo Stitcher

I’ve been experimenting with panoramas lately and as a result, I found a very nice free program for stitching multiple images together. It’s called Hugin, and its available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You don’t need a fisheye lens to make panoramas, all you need to do is take a bunch of overlapping images and let Hugin do the rest.

Freeware Find: Hugin Photo Stitcher

If you browse around the sorceforge page for Hugin, there are plenty of tutorials to get you started.

Freeware Find: Hugin Photo Stitcher

Freeware Find: Hugin Photo Stitcher

I did a panorama of my workspace as I learned more about stitching, so here it is:

Freeware Find: Hugin Photo Stitcher

In my experiments, I used Hugin to stitch my images into a single image, then I used a program called Cubic Converter ($49 US) to make a 360 degree QuickTime VR. Cubic Converter tutorials here. Here is the result:

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33 Responses to “Freeware Find: Hugin Photo Stitcher”

  1. That is a very cool little app. I don’t have to use Photoshop anymore. Thanks.

  2. what was wrong with photoshop’s built-in tool?

  3. Nice place, Jay! Wow. How did you score that beauty?

    I always was curious about how to create a Quicktime VR. Is it an arduous process that requires a lot of pictures, or do you only need a few images and a program that can seam them?

  4. @Toby,

    With a decent fisheye lens, it’s possible with as little as 8 pictures, with the right software.

  5. oh, that’s good find and thanks for share :)

  6. Hugin is awesome, I use it as a great tool for workshops and introducing people to panoramic photography.

    If you’re on a Windows machine, you can also use Pano2QTVR instead of CubicConverter to create QTVR movies free:
    http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2qtvr.php

    If you really get into panoramas you’ll probably want to check out PTGui to replace Hugin (http://www.ptgui.com/) and Pano2VR to replace Pano2QTVR (made by the same company)

  7. Hugin is more than just freeware, it’s free / open source too! That means no one company has control over the program, it’s developed by a community with no hidden agenda.

  8. Exciting! I think this will be very useful.

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  10. sweet.

    oh…and love the shot of the opening credits for HOUSE. Hands down the best theme song music ever imo. :)

  11. Tryin to figure out how to DL and install it……looks fun…but I’m lost at the moment!

  12. This is again a great share from u Jay.
    Thanks thanks for all this usefull stuff.
    Keep it up o/

  13. Jay, cheers for this one. I’ve been meaning to learn the process for this to offer it as a service to clients. You’re a legend.

    Nice to see an xbox in there too. See you on COD ;)

  14. woohooo! Wicked awesome find!! Thanks for sharing

  15. You could also use “photomerge”…This is a new fonction of photoshop CS3.
    It works and it rocks !

  16. So how long did it take to tidy up your room for the shots, eh? I bet you even counted the pencils in the jar! ;)

  17. works fine, very usefull

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  20. Not sure how this is going to be useful to me since I have a tripod for panorama photos, but great find.

    Thanks!

  21. Thats awesome! I’ve always wanted to experiment with panoramas but never have the time. I’ll have to go do one now :D

  22. I tried it out with some pics I took on vacation, works great!

  23. Yum, looks like fun! Maybe once I clear up some room I will have room on my hard drive I can install some more stuff.

  24. sbs

  25. ikikereiki

  26. good software – I use ptgui, have a look at some panos – http://www.pixelcase.com.au

  27. When i started to experiment with panoramas, i thought about a flash program to show the panoramas plus i wanted something fancy like some raven (point and click) adventure style. So i created a flash for showing my panoramas, you can get it for free here: http://www.starsystems.ch/panoViewer.html

  28. Wow. You can’t even tell that this is a seamed together photo. I just got CS4 and even though I didn’t use it yet I heard that there is a great new tool in there for this. But it seems like Hugin works great and I’m very impressed.

  29. I have not used it yet; very excited! Thanks for another great BB freebie; or thanks for pointing us in the direction at least!

  30. Wow, I’m excited to try this!

  31. I am hearing about this tool for the first time. Thanks. Nice to know the tools available.

  32. works fine, to use the software

  33. Thanks I might try this. If someone needs free flash panorama viewer, check out http://panosalado.com/

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