GigaPan Stitch and Upload Technical Manual

If you're an experienced user of the GigaPan Stitch or Upload software, that allows users to create zoomable panoramic images with billions of pixels, and upload them to share with others through the web, then you might be interested to know:

Today we are releasing a technical manual for the GigaPan Stitch and Upload software.


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Abstract

This is a technical manual for the GigaPan software products Stitch, Stitch.Efx, and Upload. This document is intended to complement the introductory tutorial at http://gigapan.com/cms/manuals, to help those who are more advanced photographers, or experienced Photoshop users, pushing the limits of what is possible, or encountering trouble. In addition to a fairly complete discussion of the software’s features, some of the operations going on behind the scenes are described. The four chapters of the document are Overview, Stitch, Upload, and History. At the end of the latter chapters you will find troubleshooting sections.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview
What do Stitch and Upload do?
What do Stitch and Upload not do?

Stitch
Quadtrees
Stitch Work Flow
Mega / Giga / Tera
Photographic Issues
Computer Issues
License Keys, Trial Period, Versions
Select Images – Basics
Select Images – Image Rearrange (Efx only)
Stitching
Alignment
Projections
Vignette Correction
Blending
Viewer
Stitch Notes
Adjust Colors (Efx only)
Upload in Stitch
Export
Save Projected Images (Efx only)
Stitch’s Command Line Options
Picture File Formats
Huge GigaPans, Performance, and Disk Space
Image Quality
Troubleshooting Stitch

Upload
Network Problems and Proxies
Upload of PSB and PSD Files
Upload of Huge PSB & PSD Files – Advanced
Managing Huge Uploads
Geolocation
Upload’s Command Line Options
Troubleshooting Upload

History
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-Paul Heckbert
GigaPan Stitch Developer

ph@cs.cmu.edu