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iSeeMedia PhotoVista Panorama

3.8/5 (5 Reviews)

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Photovista lets Web designers build highly interactive Web sites that visitors can experience -- not just look at. Create real estate, travel, art or entertainment Web sites, complete with zoomable 360º images, by turning a series of snapshots into a seamless panorama in minutes. Site visitors can interact with high-resolution, low bandwidth, panorama files -- in real time and without a plug-in!


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Overall Rating:1
Value Rating:1
Submitted by neverchex a Expert

Date Reviewed: February 21, 2004

Strengths:    Interface is simple to use.

Weaknesses:    Slow, inaccurate, lacks basic needed functions like individual image zoom, pan, rotate, and LOADS UNNEEDED BLOATWARE ONTO YOUR SYSTEM WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.
Visible artifacting at joins between images.

Bottom Line:   
Used iSeeMedia Panorama version 3.0.
Easy to use, but mostly due to lack of needed features.
Slow, inaccurate, lacks basic needed functions like individual image zoom, pan, rotate, and INSTALLER LOADS UNNEEDED BLOATWARE ONTO YOUR SYSTEM WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.
Visible artifacting at joins between images.

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Similar Products Used:   Ulead's Photostitch


Overall Rating:4
Submitted by John Chen a Beginner from Niles, IL, USA

Date Reviewed: May 25, 2000

Strengths:    Easy to use, nearly flawless each time.

Weaknesses:    still needs some help lining up sometimes; blending algorithm needs some more work.

Bottom Line:   
Overall, it's a great panorama stitcher for the price. It works quite well but sometimes does need help to line up the panorama. The blending modes often leads to some artificts. But it's incredibly easy to use and makes gorgeous panoramas most of the time without any help.

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Similar Products Used:   none


Overall Rating:5
Submitted by Ron Meyers a Intermediate from Chicago

Date Reviewed: May 22, 2000

Strengths:    None

Weaknesses:    None

Bottom Line:   
This program stitches together great panoramic photos amazingly fast. Before PhotoVista I painstakingly handstiched my panoramics using layers in PaintShop Pro. PhotoVista offers you the tools you need to make quick work of this task. You should be able to use the automatic stiching tool about 95% of the time if you have a level horizon. If not, you can switch to manual stiching and easily control the end result.

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Similar Products Used:   None


Overall Rating:5
Submitted by David Roberts a Intermediate from San Diego

Date Reviewed: May 22, 2000

Strengths:    None

Weaknesses:    None

Bottom Line:   
Take a bunch of pictures... Load them into the PhotoVista software and let the computer do a allignment for 360 degree shots or panoramas... As easy as it gets.

I liked the PhotoVista software so much, bought the whole Reality Studio for creating virtual worlds.

The virtual tour of Bodie (a ghost town) at:

http://www.thelizards.com/bodie/index.html

is an example.

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Similar Products Used:   None


Overall Rating:4
Submitted by Robert Jeantet a Expert from Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA

Date Reviewed: April 30, 2000

Strengths:    accurate alignments
many "lenses" available
manual adjustment possible

Weaknesses:    does not allow stitching fisheye images
java applet and html are not the most efficient

Bottom Line:   
I first got this program in late 1997 bundled with an Agfa digicam. I have upgraded to newer versions, each of which has been better than the last.
Because I like panorama photography, I have tried several competing products despite my satisfaction with PhotoVista. PhotoVista has them all beat, in my view: its stitches are more accurate than the competition's, and it offers the possibility of manual adjustments if needed, which competing products for the most part do not.

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Similar Products Used:   Enroute Quickstitch
PictureWorks Spin Panorama
Panorama Factory
Pixaround
Panavue




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