STOIK PanoramaMaker Editor's Review

This is a simple software which can help you create photo panoramas. In most cases, this kind of software is sold along with the digital photo cameras. Basically, if you have several overlapping photos, it can create a panoramic image. The producer claims that this program will create a 'high quality panoramic image', but this high quality can't be higher than the photos itself so if the photos are of poor quality you can't create high quality panoramic images.

The program is structured on a wizard based interface so you have to go through three steps in order to create your panoramic photos. While testing the program I discovered that this is a very easy to use program. During the three steps you have a few options to set. In fact after you select the overlapped pictures its possible to finish the process with a few mouse clicks. The program sorts and matches loaded images automatically. If program fails to match some of them, it would prompt you to switch to a manual matching mode. The first two steps are for selecting and stitching the images and the last, the 'Export', is for cropping the unneeded parts of the resulting photo and saving or printing it.

As I mentioned above, the user interface is very intuitive and easy to use. It looks pretty good to so I don't think that anyone can have problems in using this program.

Pluses: Easy to use due to the wizard like interface.

Drawbacks / flaws: If the photos do not have the same dimensions you can't use them so you might need to resize them prior to the use. It has too few features considering the price.

In conclusion: I look forward for the next version hopping that, besides improvements, it will bring some new features too.

version reviewed: 1.0