This comprehensive guide teaches all the digital skills the amateur or student photographer will need when photographing on location, written in a practical no nonsense and entertaining style

You don't need to select pictures anymore, you don't need to take care about horizontal or vertical lines. Autopano finds and assembles panoramas alone.It's unbelievably fast, has a strong recognition engine based on SIFT technology, an exclusive color correction system which totally removes colors differences between pictures, and for the first time in the world, full support for HDR stitching.

Key features:
Automatic pictures finding:
· Autopano's engine finds pictures which belong to a panorama in a folder and ignores pictures which are not needed. You don't need to cope with this hard work of sorting pictures to prepare the panorama anymore. And the detectivity of Autopano's engine is really awesome, you can see it in action in our technology page.

Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Extended software delivers all the features in Photoshop CS4, plus new features for working with 3D imagery, motion-based content, and advanced image analysis. If you work in film, video, multimedia, 3D, manufacturing, architecture, engineering, medicine, or science, Photoshop Extended is for you. Breakthrough 3D painting and compositing capabilities let you work with 3D models as easily and powerfully as with 2D images. Whether you're a professional photographer, a dentist, or just like to shoot photos for fun, there's a Photoshop product right for you.

Ideal for:
- Film, video, and multimedia professionals
- Graphic and web designers using 3D and motion
- Manufacturing professionals
- Medical professionals
- Architects and engineers
- Scientific researchers

PTGui is panoramic stitching software for Windows and Mac OSX. Originally developed as a Graphical User Interface for Panorama Tools (hence the name), PTGui now is a full featured photo stitching application.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 software takes advantage of the latest graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware to deliver superior performance. The software offers a smooth pan and zoom experience that allows users to easily edit images at the highest magnification while maintaining clarity. The new Canvas Rotation tool makes it simple to rotate and work on an image from any angle. Photoshop CS4 helps keep work areas clutter-free with a new unified application frame, tab-based interface and self-adjusting panels that make it easy to quickly access advanced tools, and provide a more fluid way to interact with the application.

Kolor Autopano Giga - program for quick, semi-automatic creation of panoramas, virtual tours and gigapikselnyh images of selected photos. This utility automatically defines the boundaries of photos and puts them next to each other so that the seam is invisible. The program has tools for correcting color in the photographs in which provides a unified color scheme to the whole panorama. Besides, you can address the shortcomings associated with different shutter speeds. The program works with images in HDR format and has a high speed. Using the program is very simple - you just specify a folder containing one or more sets of images for the association, and the program will automatically find and combine these images in a panorama. In addition to the usual functions of Autopano Pro, Giga version allows you to create 360 ° panoramas and export them to Flash format in a virtual tour and create hundreds or thousands of photos gigapikselnye image. Interface is translated into several languages.

Kolor Autopano Giga is a software dedicated to the creation of panoramas, virtual tours and gigapixel images. Based on Autopano Pro software and including all its featues, Autopano Giga goes far beyond the creation of panoramas : stitch your images in 360°, export them into Flash virtual tours, link the tours together... so many possibilities to present in a new way all the photos and places you want to share. Resolution matters? Autopano Giga also enables you to stitch in a record time several hundred or thousand images to create photos of several gigapixels.

gPhotoShow Pro is an easy to use slide show maker and screen saver that turn your favorite images collection into a unique personal slide show (or Screen Saver) complete with transition effects. With gPhotoShow you can point to file directories (either local or on a network) containing jpeg, png, tiff, panorama files, web pages, animations and have them displayed to your screen in random order, alphabetically, or by date. There is no limit to the number of images your directories may contain. You have various options for stretching or shrinking the images and to show images information like file name or Exif,IPTC,XMP info taken from the images themselves.

Photo and video organizer and editor with batch enhancement,
Panorama and HDR stitching, RAW conversion.

Slide Show and Screen Saver Maker for Windows 2000/XP/Vista
gPhotoShow Pro is an easy to use slide show maker and screen saver that turn your favorite images collection into a unique personal slide show (or Screen Saver) complete with transition effects. With gPhotoShow you can point to file directories (either local or on a network) containing jpeg, png, tiff, panorama files, web pages, animations and have them displayed to your screen in random order, alphabetically, or by date.There is no limit to the number of images your directories may contain. You have various options for stretching or shrinking the images and to show images information like file name or Exif,IPTC,XMP info taken from the images themselves.You can also create image sets, create wallpaper, pause and continue the screen saver during normal operation.

gPhotoShow Pro it's the perfect software for a Digital Photo Frame. It can be easily controlled with a keyboard (or a remote control) and can detect and display newly added pictures without restarting the program and without editing the slideshow !gPhotoShow can also be used as a slide show maker. To prepare a slide show you need only to configure gPhotoShow as usual and save save the configuration to a file. Then every time you wish to start the slide show you need only to double click on the saved file. In the same way you can easily create auto start slide shows on cd-rom. gPhotoShow will also prepare the autorun.inf file for you !

Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 brings together all the sophisticated tools you need to organize, enhance, create, and share your digital photos. Digital Image Suite offers powerful tools that are intuitive and easy to use no matter what your skill level. It’s the complete photo solution that grows with you.

Flexify 2 - Amazing Plugin! Want to turn a picture of your kids into a cube, print your photos with origami folds, or make your house look as if it is reflected in a mirrored sphere? These are just a few things you can do with Flexify!
With Flexify you can bend spherical panoramas into vertiginous new shapes. Make hyper-wide-angle views, print panoramas and maps as foldable solids and 'globe gores', simulate impossible lenses, and much more.

If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem: Exposure Blending: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range. Tone Mapping: Reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures. The tone mapped image is ready for printing while showing the complete dynamic range captured.

Saving on lighting equipment
Given that most digital cameras can auto-bracket at different exposures, you do not need to acquire expensive lighting equipment -and carry it- when shooting high contrast scenes. Just enable Auto Exposure Bracketing, and let Photomatix merge your photos into an image with extended dynamic range.

PanoramaStudio. Creation of seamless 360 degree and wide angle panoramic images.This program combines simple creation of perfect panoramic images within a few steps with ambitious postprocessing features for advanced users.PanoramaStudio Pro. Creation of single and multi-row panoramas of up to full spherical 360x180 degrees.PanoramaStudio Pro is the complete solution for the creation of panoramic images. Besides the easy and established creation of panoramas PanoramaStudio Pro offers now also the option to stitch arbitrary arranged images to panoramas. This allows huge panoramas, even beyond the gigapixel limit.

Highlights:
• Easy user interface, large work space with a 2D and 3D preview
• Automatic alignment of the images
• Seamless blending into a panoramic image
• Manual postprocessing of all steps possible
• Automatic focal length detection, automatic correction of lens distortions
• Automatic exposure correction
• Panoramas can be connected to virtual tours in Java and Flash using hotspots
• Filters for additional image editing

AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker is a Flash album creator, Flash to Slideshow Maker to create elegant flash photo slideshow for share on Website, Blog, Myspace and more. It can easily make animated photo slide show with SWF file as the output format.

Creates seamless 360 degree and wide angle panoramas.Stitches your photos to huge panoramic images within minutes:
* Automatic alignment, enhancing and blending of your images
* Clear and easy user interface, large work space
* An adaptive blending method achieves seamless overlaps even with moving objects
* Supports nearly all compact and SLR cameras
* Export your panoramas in various image formats, as screensaver or interactive Java or Flash panoramas
* Supports virtual tours and hotspots in Java and Flash panoramas
* Prints panoramas as posters on multiple pages with the integrated poster printing function

CodedColor PhotoStudio by 1STEIN is a Windows photo viewer and editor to organize, edit, resize, reformat, correct, compare, sort, watermark, annotate and print digital images, and to edit EXIF and IPTC data in digital photos.

CodedColor PhotoStudio by 1STEIN is a Windows photo viewer and editor to organize, edit, resize, reformat, correct, compare, sort, watermark, annotate and print digital images, and to edit EXIF and IPTC data in digital photos. You can rename multiple images, remove scratches, create panorama pictures (stitch), convert RAW photos (from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc. cameras), send images via Skype, send photo SMS, burn digital watermarks, correct colors, run a screenshow, convert and correct JPEG images in a batch process, rename fields, open pictures and image folders from the Explorer, generate a webalbum in HTML and compress JPG images. The CodedColor software interface looks very similar to ACDSee, is easier to use than Photoshop and more versatile than Picasa and Irfanview, but still contains editing and correction features as effective as Paintshop. The software comes with a detailed handbook and a fast database to store EXIF / IPTC data and color informationen.

[center]MAGIX Music Maker 15 Premium is the easy-to-use music production software solution: If you've never made music, you can still get started right away and make your own songs. If you are are a musician, you will love all the software tools available to polish your masterpiece.

Slide Show and Screen Saver Maker for Windows 2000/XP/Vista
gPhotoShow Pro is an easy to use slide show maker and screen saver that turn your favorite images collection into a unique personal slide show (or Screen Saver) complete with transition effects. With gPhotoShow you can point to file directories (either local or on a network) containing jpeg, png, tiff, panorama files, web pages, animations and have them displayed to your screen in random order, alphabetically, or by date.There is no limit to the number of images your directories may contain. You have various options for stretching or shrinking the images and to show images information like file name or Exif,IPTC,XMP info taken from the images themselves.You can also create image sets, create wallpaper, pause and continue the screen saver during normal operation.

gPhotoShow Pro it's the perfect software for a Digital Photo Frame. It can be easily controlled with a keyboard (or a remote control) and can detect and display newly added pictures without restarting the program and without editing the slideshow !gPhotoShow can also be used as a slide show maker. To prepare a slide show you need only to configure gPhotoShow as usual and save save the configuration to a file. Then every time you wish to start the slide show you need only to double click on the saved file. In the same way you can easily create auto start slide shows on cd-rom. gPhotoShow will also prepare the autorun.inf file for you !

Discover how to turn your digital portraits and panoramas into masterpieces that mimic the oil and watercolor styles of Great Masters like Rembrandt, Monet, and Norman Rockwell. Join internationally renowned portrait artist, Fay Sirkis, as she shares the secrets and techniques behind her signature style of "photo painting" that uses Adobe® Photoshop® and Corel® Painter™X to create beautiful works of art!

Konvertor is a multimedia viewer/converter supporting conversion among 1845 image, photo, animation, audio, video and text formats quickly and easily. Konvertor is able to display and convert among nearly all multimedia formats conceivable.

With Konvertor you have the power to display, convert and organize all your pictures, graphics, videos and music with personalized descriptions, so you can find them quickly. It gives you intuitive, professional-quality imaging tools to get, view, modify, organize, enhance and print your images quickly. Enjoy a flexible and efficient user interface, and get fast operation with superior quality image display. It allows the conversion between many file formats. Just select the files to convert, choose a format and that's all ! 200 Filters are available (resizing, blur, noise, charcoal etc...) to modify/enhance your images.

•Roxio Creator 2010 Pro includes tools for creating preserving, and sharing video, audio and photos
•Built-in High-Def/Blu-ray Disc authoring lets you capture high-def video footage from AVCHD or HD camcorders and TiVo DVRs--create Blu-ray Discs or standard DVDs with HD content that can be played on any standard Blu-ray Disc player
•Includes SmartSound Sonicfire Pro for easily orchestrating music tracks, BIAS SoundSoap SE for removing unwanted audio noise, LightZone for enhancing photos, and BackOnTrack 3 for backing up your files
•Easily capture and convert your standard, HD or AVCHD video, audio or photo files to enjoy on DVD, on your big screen TV, online, or on portable devices like your iPhone and more
•Choose professionally-designed styles and themes for your photos then add fun effects and music--share online with family and friends, or even order it on DVD

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 offers powerful and features across the entire program to help you streamline your digital photography workflow. Sort and find the photos you want faster, target specific photo areas for more precise adjustments, showcase your talent using more flexible printing templates, and more.

Advanced Sphere Panorama Viewer can display large pictures at 360 degrees. It is XML and Papervision 3D driven, so it’s a quality component. Included in the pack are – support files, OOP classes, .fla and the test image. The image is poor quality for the file to load fast, but if you load a HD image it will display beautifully. With the new advanced panoramic viewer you can even add hotspots with video or images.

Features include:
-unlimited hotspots set through XML
-unlimited zoom with the mouse wheel. If you load a very large picture (ex: 10 000×3000 px ) this feature will come very handy as it will be possible to see the very small details.
-XML driven. You can change to photo being loaded easily from the .xml included
-It resizes automaticly to any size you wish. In the pack it is also included a index.html that will display it in fullscreen

In this course we will learn how to use Stitcher to create Panoramic images. Stitcher comes with many tools built to make the panorama creation process quick and easy. In only a few minutes we will be able to take fisheye photographs and render a seamless 360 degree panorama

If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem: Exposure Blending: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range. Tone Mapping: Reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures. The tone mapped image is ready for printing while showing the complete dynamic range captured.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended software delivers all the features in Photoshop CS4, plus new features for working with 3D imagery, motion-based content, and advanced image analysis.Easily access every tool for nondestructive adjustment of color and tone. Quickly adjust specific image areas with easier access to all the tools for creating and editing nondestructive masks.Now paint directly on 3D models; wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes; convert gradient maps to 3D objects; and add depth to pixel layers, text, 2D shapes, and DICOM frames with volume rendering.Paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence with ease using single-key shortcuts.Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Simply drag to resize brushes and adjust for hardness as you paint and preview brush strokes.....