Any Good, Cheap/Free Panorama-Stitching Software for MacOS X 10.4?

Bob Blaylock

Bob Blaylock

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My primary computer is a ten-year-old Power Macintosh G4 (single processor, 1 GHz) running MacOS X 10.4.11 “Tiger”.

Yesterday, I was prowling the web, looking for usable panorama-stitching software. I want to be able to stitch full-sized panoramas from the 24MP pictures taken by my D3200.

Everything that I could find for the Macintosh platform that looked promising either requires a newer version of MacOS X than I am running, is unreasonably expensiveness, or simply doesn't work.

I did find Microsoft ICE, and have played with it on one of the other Windows-based machines around my house. Aside from a few bits of the sort of impenetrable retardedness that one knows to expect of anything from Microsoft, it was able to produce some impressive results. I would much rather work on my Macintosh, and with something that doesn't bear any Microsoft-style retardedness.
 
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I have had good results with MS ICE. I have PhotoShop CS6 and occasionally I can not get a panorama to work at all with it and I then turn to ICE and it generally will get it right.
 
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pedroj

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Bob Blaylock said:
My primary computer is a ten-year-old Power Macintosh G4 (single processor, 1 GHz) running MacOS X 10.4.11 “Tiger”.

Yesterday, I was prowling the web, looking for usable panorama-stitching software. I want to be able to stitch full-sized panoramas from the 24MP pictures taken by my D3200.

Everything that I could find for the Macintosh platform that looked promising either requires a newer version of MacOS X than I am running, is unreasonably expensiveness, or simply doesn't work.

I did find Microsoft ICE, and have played with it on one of the other Windows-based machines around my house. Aside from a few bits of the sort of impenetrable retardedness that one knows to expect of anything from Microsoft, it was able to produce some impressive results. I would much rather work on my Macintosh, and with something that doesn't bear any Microsoft-style retardedness.
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Maybe you need a new machine.....
 
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WhiteLight

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Unfortunately Panoramas process a number of images together so you would a slightly powerful machine.
You did not mention how much memory the system has, so that would be important.
If you do have at least 4gb, you can somehow manage
 
Bob Blaylock

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
WhiteLight said:
Unfortunately Panoramas process a number of images together so you would a slightly powerful machine.
You did not mention how much memory the system has, so that would be important.
If you do have at least 4gb, you can somehow manage
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I don't think processing power is a serious issue, here.

The machine on which I have successfully run ICE is a 3 GHz Pentium 4, with one gigabyte of RAM, running Windows XP.

My Macintosh has 1.75 GB of RAM, so while it is significantly short of the 4 GB you think I should need, it's quit a bit more than the Windows machine on which I've run ICE.

The Windows machine runs its CPU at thrice the clock rate, but given how much more efficient the PowerPC G4 is than the Pentium 4, and how much more efficient MacOS is than Windows, the two ought to be pretty comparable in usable processing power.

So it's not a matter of processing power; just of finding the right software, if it exists.
 
Bob Blaylock

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
WhiteLight said:
Unfortunately Panoramas process a number of images together so you would a slightly powerful machine.
You did not mention how much memory the system has, so that would be important.
If you do have at least 4gb, you can somehow manage
Click to expand...

I don't think processing power is a serious issue, here.

The machine on which I have successfully run ICE is a 3 GHz Pentium 4, with one gigabyte of RAM, running Windows XP.

My Macintosh has 1.75 GB of RAM, so while it is significantly short of the 4 GB you think I should need, it's quit a bit more than the Windows machine on which I've run ICE.

The Windows machine runs its CPU at thrice the clock rate, but given how much more efficient the PowerPC G4 is than the Pentium 4, and how much more efficient MacOS is than Windows, the two ought to be pretty comparable in usable processing power.

So it's not a matter of processing power; just of finding the right software, if it exists.
 
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