How To Create Panorama Image Using Microsoft Image Composite Editor

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Panorama image wide angle view and is normally obtained by stitching many pictures taken from a single location shot in a professional manner. Modern Digital Camera’s come pre-built with this feature.

But if you don’t have a photo-stitching function in-built in your camera, you can do so using software. Microsoft research team has released a free software which exactly does the same.

Named as “Microsoft Image Composite Editor”, this utility can automatically identify and stitch multiple panorama images into a single wide-angle image.

The software is simple to use with drag-drop interface. Simply drag-drop the individual images into the program’s interface.

The software will automatically stitch them together.

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You can add Camera motion effect including Rotating Motion, and 3 more types of Planar Motion.

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Additionally, you can also do trimming of images using it’s Crop tool.

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Finally, you can export the completed image to JPEG, TIFF, Adobe Photoshop, Deep Zoom Tileset, Bitmap, PNG, and HD Photo image formats.

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It also let’s you directly publish image to Microsoft’s 3 dimensional photo gallery called “Photosynth”.

Download Microsoft Image Composite Editor 32-Bit Version

Download Microsoft Image Composite Editor 64-Bit Version

Microsoft Image Composite Editor works with Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.