Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. Microsoft Image Composite Editor can save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of ways, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by several panorama viewers.

Features:

• State-of-the-art stitching engine
• Automatic exposure blending
• Choice of planar, cylindrical, or spherical projection
• Orientation tool for adjusting panorama rotation
• Automatic cropping to maximum image area
• Wide range of output formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, HD Photo, and multiresolution tiled formats for panorama viewers
• Support for "structured panoramas" — panoramas consisting of hundreds of photos taken in a rectangular grid of rows and columns
• No image size limitation — stitch gigapixel panoramas
• Support for input images with 8 or 16 bits per component
• Ability to read raw images using WIC codecs
• Photoshop layer and large document support
• Stitch directly from a video (only on Windows 7)
• Automatic lens vignette removal
• Native support for 64-bit operating systems
• Accelerated stitching on multiple CPU cores
• Options dialog to control memory usage and scratch disk locations