Comparison of photo stitching software
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Photo stitching software produce panoramic pictures and VR photographs. The other method involves using panoramic cameras or panoramic mirror lenses (i.e. one-shot lenses).
General[edit]
Name | Developer(s) | Operating system(s) | License | Price | WWW | Notes |
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Affinity Photo | Serif | Windows, Mac OS, or iOS | Proprietary | $69.99 for desktop, $19.99 for iOS[1] | affinity.serif.com | |
Adobe Lightroom | Adobe Inc. | Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, TvOS[2] | Proprietary | $9.99 a month | www.adobe.com/photoshop-lightroom-classic | There is Lightroom CC which doesn't store data to the desktop Lightroom Classic which stores data locally on the desktop.[3] |
Panoweaver Standard / Professional | Easypano Holdings Inc. | Windows XP/7/8; Mac OS X 10.4 or later | Proprietary | Standard: $99 / Professional: $299 | easypano.com | Branding free, trial version works will be watermarked. |
WidsMob Panorama | WidsMob Technology Ltd. | Mac OS X 10.8 or later | Proprietary | $19.99 | widsmob.com | Branding free, trial version works will be watermarked. |
i2Align Std / Pro | DualAlign LLC | Windows 7 or higher; Mac OS X 10.2 or higher | Proprietary | Express: $50 / Pro: $100 | dualalign.com | Express is limited to four images per panorama |
Pixtra OmniStitcher | Pixtra Corp. | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | $49 | Pixtra.com | Designed for 360x180 degree omniramas. |
Pixtra PanoStitcher | Pixtra Corp. | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | $30 | Pixtra.com | Includes virtual tool authoring package. |
QuickPHOTO | PROMICRA | Windows 7 or later | Proprietary | Trial Available | promicra.com | Stitching together fields of view from microscope. |
Dermandar | Dermandar | Browser based (Adobe Flash player required), Apple iOS4 | Proprietary | Free | Dermandar.com | Panoramas are uploaded on the Dermandar server and they can be viewed with the provided Flash viewer. |
PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | Tekmate, Inc. | Windows 98 or later | Proprietary | Harmony: $52 / Premium: $277 | PhotoFit4Panorama.com | Premium has bigger output size limits (12 vs. 1200 Mpix) and more output projections. |
PanoramaPlus X4 | Serif (Europe) Ltd. | Windows XP or later | Proprietary | £20 | Serif.com | Video input. |
PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | 3cim, Inc. | Windows ?? | Proprietary | $199 / Pro: $499 + annual $199 | PanoBuilder.com | Price incl. hosting for virtual tours. |
Pixloo VT Builder | Pixloo | Windows and Mac | Proprietary | $9 Month | Pixloo | Unlimited hosting of virtual tours. |
360 Panorama Professional | 360 Degrees of Freedom | Windows only | Proprietary | $99 | 360dof.com | Includes virtual tool authoring package. |
VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | 360 Degrees of Freedom | Windows only | Proprietary | $499 | 360dof.com | Includes virtual tool authoring package. specifically designed for fisheye lenses. |
COOL 360 | Ulead / Corel Corp. | Windows, up to XP only | Proprietary | $40 | Corel.com | Support discontinued. |
The Panorama Factory v5 | Smoky City Design, LLC | Windows 98 or later; Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later | Proprietary | $80 | panoramafactory.com | |
PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | ? | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | Lite: Free / Home: $20 / Business: $349 | Singnet.com | |
PTAssembler | Max Lyons | Windows only | Proprietary | $49 / $299 | Tawbaware.com | Based on Panorama Tools |
PTgui / PTgui Pro | New House Internet Services BV | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | €79 (personal) / €180 (company); Pro: €149 (personal / €349 (company) (+taxes) | ptgui.com | Based on Panorama Tools. |
Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Kolor | Windows 2000 or later; Mac OS X 10.5 or later with Intel processor; Linux 2.6 or later | Proprietary | Ceased trading September 2018 | www.kolor.com | Free trial version (watermarked) |
Autostitch | Matthew Brown & David Lowe | Windows; Mac OS X; Android 4.0.3 and up[4] | Proprietary | Time limited demo only | Autostitch home page | |
Calico Panorama | Kekus | Mac only | Proprietary | $39 | kekus.com | Based on Autostitch. |
Hugin | Pablo d'Angelo et al. | Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD | GPL | Free | hugin.sf.net | Based on Panorama Tools. |
Stitcher 4 | 3DVista | Windows & Mac | Proprietary | €99 | [1] | |
D Joiner | D Vision Works, Ltd. | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | £300 | d-vw.com | |
Panorama Maker 6 | Arcsoft, Inc. | Windows XP/Vista/7; Mac OS X | Proprietary | $79.99 | arcsoft.com | Video input, 3D output |
Photovista Panorama | iseemedia, inc. | Windows 98 SE or later; Mac OS 9.1 or later | Proprietary | $250 | iseephotovista.com | |
PanoramaStudio / Pro | Tobias Hüllmandel Software | Windows 2000 or later | Proprietary | €35/€70 | tshsoft.de | RAW file support. Multirow stitching only with Pro version. |
Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | Autodesk | Windows Vista SP2 or later; Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later | Proprietary | $400 | autodesk.com | Export to Flash, VRML, QTVR. |
ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | Albatross Design Group | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | $40 / $99 | albatrossdesign.com | Pro version has ability to create hot spots for virtual tours. |
Panorama Composer 3 | FirmTools | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | $30 | Panorama.FirmTools.com | Includes Flash, ActiveX and Java based viewers for web. |
Image Composite Editor | Microsoft | Windows Vista SP2 or later | Proprietary | Free for non-commercial use | research.microsoft.com | Video input (Windows 7+) |
Panorama Perfect | Michal Pohanka | Windows 2000 or later | Proprietary | $29 | volny.cz | |
Photoshop CS5 | Adobe Systems | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | $699[5] | adobe.com | |
Photoshop CS6 | Adobe Systems | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | $699[6] | adobe.com | Can do auto stitching |
AIPR Lite 1 | Mayachitra, Inc. | Windows*; Mac OS X 10.6+* | Proprietary | $29.95 | AIPR Lite | (*) both 32 and 64 bit versions available. |
Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | Gigapan Systems | Windows; Mac OS X 10.4 or later | Proprietary | $79 | Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | Assumes images form approximate grid. Works well on large numbers of images ( hundreds, thousands ) |
PanoramaMaker | STOIK Imaging | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | €39 | STOIK.com | Requires all images to be the same size |
Montage Image Mosaic | Caltech/IPAC, JPL, CACR, ISI | Unix | 3-Clause BSD | Free | official Web site | Produces science-grade mosaics for astronomical research |
Panorama Stitcher | Alexander Boltnev, Olga Kacher | Mac OS X | Proprietary | $15 | Panorama Stitcher | Automatic stitching, exposure leveling. Interactive projection editor. |
PhotoStitcher | Maxim Gapchenko | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | $19.99 | www.photostitcher.com | Stitch panoramic images in one click without any preferences |
SharpStitch | Libor Tinka | Windows | Proprietary | Full: $995.00; Source code: $4995.00 | www.imagingshop.com | Image alignment and stitching library for .NET |
StitchUp | Michel Mürner | Mac OS X | Proprietary | $6.99 | www.stitchup.ch | |
Pano2VR / Pano2VR pro | Garden Gnome Software | Windows; Mac OS X; Linux | Proprietary | regular: €99; pro: €299 (+taxes) | ggnome.com/pano2vr | Free trial version (watermarked) |
HDR, tonemapping and exposure fusion[edit]
Name | HDR input (EXR, HDR, Logluv, etc.) | Merging to HDR from LDR images | HDR output (EXR, HDR, Logluv, etc.) | Tonemapping | Exposure fusion | Notes |
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Panoweaver Standard / Professional[7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
i2Align Quickage Express / Pro[8] | No | Yes* | Yes* | No | No | *) Pro version only. |
Pixtra PanoStitcher | No | No | No | No | No | |
Pixtra OmniStitcher | No | No | No | No | No | |
QuickPHOTO[9] | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanoramaPlus X4 | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | No | No | No | No | No | |
360 Panorama Professional | No | No | No | No | No | |
VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | No | No | No | No | No | |
COOL 360 | No | No | No | No | No | |
The Panorama Factory v5 | No | No | No | No | No | |
PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | No | No | No | No | No | |
PTAssembler | No | No | No | No | Yes | Exposure fusion with TuFuse or enfuse. Automatic detection of image stacks. |
PTgui / PTgui Pro | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Exposure fusion with infuse or TuFuse. *) Pro version only. |
Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ceased trading September 2018 |
Autostitch | No | No | No | No | No | |
Calico Panorama | No | No | No | No | No | |
Hugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Exposure fusion with enfuse, automatic detection of image stacks. |
3DVista Stitcher 3.0 | No | No | No | No | No | |
D Joiner | No | No | No | No | No | |
Panorama Maker 6 | No | No | No | No | No | |
Photovista Panorama | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanoramaStudio | No | No | No | No | No | |
Stitcher Unlimited 2009[10] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | No | No | No | No | No | |
Panorama Composer 3 | No | No | No | No | No | |
Image Composite Editor | No | No | No | No | No | Supports 16-bit camera raw input via WIC plugins |
Panorama Perfect | No | No | No | No | No | |
Photoshop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
AIPR Lite 1 | No | No | No | Yes* | No | (*) color mapping around the seams allows to preserve the original photometric properties of the images |
Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanoramaMaker | No | No | No | No | No | |
Panorama Stitcher | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
SharpStitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Pano2VR / Pano2VR pro | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |
Name | HDR input (EXR, HDR, Logluv, etc.) | Merging to HDR from LDR images | HDR output (EXR, HDR, Logluv, etc.) | Tonemapping | Exposure fusion | Notes |
Image corrections[edit]
Name | Panorama leveling | Vignetting correction | Lens distortion correcting | White balance correction | Exposure correction | Viewpoint adjustment | Notes |
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Panoweaver Standard / Professional[11] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Dermandar | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
i2Align Quickage Express / Pro[12] | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
Pixtra PanoStitcher[13] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Also chromatic aberration correction if correction parameters provided |
Pixtra OmniStitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Also chromatic aberration correction if correction parameters provided |
QuickPHOTO | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
PhotoFit Harmony / Premium[14] | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | |
PanoramaPlus X4[15] | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
360 Panorama Professional | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
VRstitcher Fisheye Pro[16] | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | |
COOL 360 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
PanaVue ImageAssembler Std. / Pro. / Ent.[17] | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | |
The Panorama Factory v5[18] | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | |
PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
PTAssembler[19] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
PTgui / PTgui Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[20] | |
Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes*[21] | (*) Giga only. |
Autostitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Calico Panorama | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
Hugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[22] | |
3DVista Stitcher 3.0 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
D Joiner[23] | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Panorama Maker 6 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
Photovista Panorama[24] | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanoramaStudio / Pro [25] | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | |
ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | |
Panorama Composer 3[26] | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
Image Composite Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
Panorama Perfect[27] | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | |
Photoshop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
AIPR Lite 1 | No | Yes* | Yes | No | No | No | (*) color mapping about the seams greatly mitigates the effects of vignetting |
Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
PanoramaMaker | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
Panorama Stitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes* | No | Yes | Yes | (*) Only for rectilinear lenses |
SharpStitch | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Pano2VR / Pano2VR pro[28] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Name | Panorama leveling | Vignetting correction | Lens distortion correcting | White balance correction | Exposure correction | Viewpoint adjustment | Notes |
Export options[edit]
Name | Raster images (JPEG, TIFF, etc.) | Flash viewer | Java viewer | QTVR | HTML 5* | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Panoweaver Standard / Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Includes free Flash and HTML5 viewer. |
Dermandar | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Includes free Flash and HTML5 viewer. |
i2Align Quickage Express / Pro | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Pixtra PanoStitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Includes ActiveX viewer & export. |
Pixtra OmniStitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Includes ActiveX viewer & export. |
QuickPHOTO | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | |
PanoramaPlus X4 | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Flickr export. |
PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | Yes | Yes* | No | No | No | (*) Planar viewer. |
360 Panorama Professional | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | |
COOL 360[29] | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Embedding of panoramas into executables (.exe ) and Microsoft Office files. ActiveX viewer.
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PanaVue ImageAssembler Std. / Pro. / Ent. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
The Panorama Factory v5 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | |
PTAssembler | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
PTgui / PTgui Pro | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes[30] | |
Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
Autostitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Calico | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | |
Hugin | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
3DVista Stitcher 3.0 | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
D Joiner | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | |
Panorama Maker 6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Photovista Panorama | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | IVR export. |
PanoramaStudio / pro[31] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | VRML export. |
ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
Panorama Composer 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Includes ActiveX viewer & export. |
Image Composite Editor | Yes | No | No | No | No | Publish to Photosynth website, Silverlight based viewer. |
Panorama Perfect | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Photoshop | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
AIPR Lite 1 | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 3D viewer in stitcher / Publishing to gigapan.org 2D flash viewer / Embeddable flash viewer |
PanoramaMaker | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
PanoEdit | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
SharpStitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Pano2VR / Pano2VR pro | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
Name | Raster images (JPEG, TIFF, etc.) | Flash viewer | Java viewer | QTVR | HTML 5* | Notes |
(*) Export to HTML 5 usually means WebGL based viewer application.
Compatible equipment[edit]
Name | Rectilinear lenses (i.e. normal camera lenses) | Fish eye lenses | Partial or full (spherical) panoramas or images from panoramic cameras | Different focal lengths in single panorama | Different lens types in single panorama | Perspective correction lenses | Other/Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Panoweaver Standard / Professional[32] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
i2Align Quickage Express / Pro | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | No | |
Pixtra PanoStitcher[33] | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
Pixtra OmniStitcher[34] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |
QuickPHOTO | No | No | No | No | No | No | PROMICAM[35] microscope camera needed |
PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanoramaPlus X4 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
360 Panorama Professional | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
COOL 360 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanaVue ImageAssembler Std. / Pro. / Ent. | Yes | Yes* | No | No | No | ? | *) Circular fish eyes not supported,[36] diagonal fish eyes up to 180 degree field of view. |
The Panorama Factory v5 | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
PTAssembler[37] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
PTgui / PTgui Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also supports motorized panoramic heads, in Giga & Pro versions. |
Autostitch | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | |
Calico Panorama | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Hugin | Yes | Yes* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | * As of v2010.2 onwards, all known fish eye projections are supported (equisolid, orthographic, stereographic) |
3DVista Stitcher 3.0 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | "One shot" i.e. panoramic mirror lenses also supported. |
D Joiner | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Panorama Maker 6 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Photovista Panorama | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
PanoramaStudio / Pro | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | |
ADG Panorama Tools / Pro[38] | Yes | No | Yes* | No | No | No | *) Cylindrical only |
Panorama Composer 3 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Image Composite Editor | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Panorama Perfect | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Photoshop | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
AIPR Lite 1 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes* | (*) homographic model compensates for these type of lenses |
Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
PanoramaMaker | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | |
PanoEdit | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | |
SharpStitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Name | Rectilinear lenses (i.e. normal camera lenses) | Fish eye lenses | Partial or full (spherical) panoramas or images from panoramic cameras | Different focal lengths in single panorama | Different lens types in single panorama | Perspective correction lenses | Other/Notes |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Affinity Photo – award-winning photo editing software".
- ↑ "Lightroom Classic CC system requirements". helpx.adobe.com. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ↑ "Desktop photo editor | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic".
- ↑ "Autostitch for Android". cloudburstresearch.com/. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ↑ What is Photoshop?
- ↑ What is Photoshop?
- ↑ Panoweaver features page
- ↑ i2Align online help
- ↑ HDR module for QuickPHOTO microscope software
- ↑ Stitcher Unlimited 2009 FAQ Archived 2009-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Panoweaver user's manual
- ↑ "How Quickage works" page
- ↑ PanoStitcher tutorial
- ↑ "PhotoFit features". Archived from the original on 2009-08-31. Retrieved 2009-09-12. Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ PanoramaPlus X4 quickstart guide
- ↑ Product detaisl page
- ↑ ImageAssembler help files
- ↑ The Panorama Factory feature page
- ↑ PTAssembler home page
- ↑ PTgui viewpoint correction tutorial
- ↑ Autopano 2.5 announcement
- ↑ Hugin tutorial — Stitching murals using mosaic mode
- ↑ D Joiner tips section
- ↑ "Photovista user's manual" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2009-09-12. Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ PanoramaStudio feature overview page
- ↑ Panorama Composer's lens settings
- ↑ "Volný.cz".
- ↑ Pano2VR product page
- ↑ COOL 360 feature comparison chart & COOL 360 features PDF
- ↑ PTgui 9.0b
- ↑ "PanoramaStudio Viewer | PanoramaStudio Panorama Software".
- ↑ Panoweaver's edition comparison page
- ↑ PanoStitcher feature page
- ↑ OmniStitcher feature page
- ↑ PROMICAM microscope cameras
- ↑ PanaVue product comparison table
- ↑ PTassembler help page
- ↑ ADG Panorama Tools change log
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