This is no afterthought feature, some seriously good work was put into it.īoundary warp is brilliant, saving time compared to exporting to Photoshop for Transform Warp to fill the voids left after the stitch.īoundary Warp gets your whole framing in with one click, losing nothing to cropping: LR also does a really natural looking HDR exposure fusion from a handheld series, with every leaf, needle and blade of grass deghosted and aligned to the pixel. If the user really needs all the dozen different projections available to the expensive pano programs, fine, but I find those projections mostly useless. I'm sure the boffs at Adobe are working on it (maybe even chatting to their colleagues in the PS dept)Īs an owner and long time user of PTGui Pro, Autopano Pro, MS Ice and PS, I would say that LR's pano stitching is excellent, at least as good as the two bigs. Pretty much any freeware software does the job better. Personally I think they should have held back including it. It's a first generation feature with this package and has a long way to go. Yours is a worthy note on the current uselessness of LR's pano stitch function. The full-size image is 242MP and will print over 26 FEET wide and 19 inches tall at 200dpi.Ģ8 handheld frames processed in DxO and stitched in LR (half-size).ĭifficult to see past the text obscuring the whole image. Here's a half-size version (highly compressed at JPEG Quality 10%) of the 28-frame stitch. Ta da! Zero vignetting and no seams in the pano.ĥ-frame stitch processed in DxO then merged in LR, no vignetting visible. I round-tripped through DxO, applying DxO's lens corrections, and merged the resulting DNG files back in LR. I could have exported as JPEG or DNG and then imported and merged those, but I decided to go through DxO to see if its lens corrections would do better. But, that adjustment is not applied before merging, so it didn't help. So, I tried manually applying some de-vignette using LR's tool. Apparently, Panasonic's vignette corrections are less than perfect. This even though LR automatically applies the lens corrections that are written into the RAW file by the camera. Now, when I tried to merge the RAWs in LR, I wound up with obvious seams where the vignette in the corners of each frame met.ĥ-frame stitch processed in LR, vignetting visible at seams.

I had shot a series of 28 overlapping images of a wide scene, and I'd done it with a GX7 and 14-140mm lens. And yesterday I discovered an advantage to processing with DxO when stitching panoramas - vignette correction. I use both Lightroom and DxO Optics Pro 10.

Dxo photo