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Features and capabilities
The Panorama Factory provides a rich set of features:
Project-file organization:
- Allows you to change intermediate images without starting over.
- Enables archival storage with reduced disk space.
Attention to image-quality issues:
- Includes automatic and manual "de-ghosting" tools.
- Solves the problem of multi-generation image degradation.
True full color support:
- Accepts up to 45-bit color images (15 bits each for red, green and blue).
- Reads and writes Windows BMP, JPEG and TIFF images.
- Optionally maintains full 45-bit data until final image output at 24-bits.
- Can work from positive or negative images.
- Includes a convenient and intuitive color correction tool.
- Trims images from negative strips with a semi-automatic corner finding tool.
Fast, high-quality image processing engine:
- Focal-length refinement.
- Image overlap from 1-99%.
- Automatic image alignment with manual override.
- Image rescaling with low-pass filtering – perfect for creating thumbnail images.
- 3x3 and 5x5 FIR filter tool.
- 3x3 image sharpening tool.
Several of these features make The Panorama Factory a natural complement to film (negative and slide) scanners. In fact, even if you never use its panoramic stitcher, The Panorama Factory is great for extracting and color correcting frames from negative strips.
Revised: October 12, 1999