Windows Phone App Review: Pano

Pano for Windows Phone

Second generation HTC Windows Phone (Titan and Radar) owners have a panoramic setting in their camera app to let them stitch together three images to create a wide, panoramic epitome. But what about other Window Phone models? Enter the Windows Phone app Pano.

Pano was recently released over at the Windows Phone Marketplace that will allow y'all to stitch together upwards to xvi images to create a massively huge panorama. Pano has had a decent amount of success over on the iPhone and based on what we've seen, should be just as successful with Windows Phone users as well.

Pano is laid out actually unproblematic on screen controls to build the panorama, snap a photograph, and change the orientation from landscape to portrait. You tin use the hardware push to capture the images simply the on screen push button may be more than convenient.

Pano

Once you lot take the showtime image, an alignment window is created to the left of the screen. It is a ghost image of the far right of your kickoff picture that you will employ to line things upward for the next photo. Once lined up, snap your adjacent photo, align things upward again and repeat the steps every bit needed.

When you are through taking the photos, tap the check mark to build the panorama image. Depending on the number of photos being merged, this could accept several minutes to process. Once complete, the panorama image is displayed and saved to your Pictures Hub.

Pano Sample One

In taking Pano out for a exam spin, the end results weren't as well shabby. Trying to shoot a panorama hand held can be challenging and the best results came when I used a tripod. This doesn't mean you can't shoot panos hand held merely demand to have a steady manus and avoid shifting forrad or backwards.

You demand to concentrate on lining up the vertical lines in the alignment window. With shifts in landscape you may non be able to match things up exactly and I institute that Pano fabricated the necessary adjustments with the horizontal alignment. The merging seemed to struggle with curves (such as with the rounded sidewalk in the pond image) merely for the most part did a really nice job of information technology. The blending of images was equally as nice to avoid noticeable stitch lines. Paradigm resolution for the end product is 262 dpi. Naturally, overall size is dependent on how many images are merged together.

Pano Sample Two

It is overnice to be able to stitch upwards to 16 images and change the orientation to portrait. You can only most shoot a 360 degree pano with Pano. In comparing, the HTC Windows Phones' panoramic feature, that is built into the camera app, is express to iii images.

At times it was tough seeing the alignment window outdoors and it would accept been overnice to take seen a setting to adjust the transparency. But information technology's cipher a fiddling shade can't fix. I do like the ability to rotate the camera's perspective from horizontal to portrait. Information technology adds a trivial flexibility to your panoramic situations. All in all,Pano is a nice photography app for your Windows Telephone.

In that location is a complimentary trial version available with the full version running $ii.99. You tin find Pano here at the Windows Phone Market place.

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