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PanoCurrent Version: 4.5

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Pano is an award-winning app that lets you take beautiful, seamless panoramic photos straight from your phone, no other software necessary. Selected by Apple as one of the "Best Apps of 2009", Pano has gotten rave reviews from hundreds of thousands of users around the world! Pano is exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch (with camera).

Features:
- Deliciously simple interface
- Take 360-degree panoramas with up to *sixteen* photos
- Handy semi-transparent guide helps you line up each shot perfectly
- Advanced alignment, blending, and colour-correction algorithms provide seamless images in just seconds
- Finished panoramas save directly to your camera roll
- Final resolution of up to 6800x800
- Panos can be resumed if interrupted

Be sure to check out our Flickr group to see what people around the world are doing with Pano:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/iphonepanoramas/

What the reviewers are saying:
- MacWorld (4.5/5 stars): "Pano is an amazing app for creating on-the-spot panoramic photos without the need of desktop software to stitch the photos together." -- Tom Hesser.
- Webmonkey: "...Pano, a new app for the iPhone, makes taking extreme wide-angle panoramic photographs a total breeze." -- Michael Calore.
- iJustine -- "I just want to Pano everything! .. The interface is extremely easy...It works amazing..."
- Wired: "Pretty neat -- and a creative way to pass time with your iPhone. The panoramas look quite good considering the iPhone's meager 2-megapixel camera, wouldn't ya say?" -- Brian X. Chen.

Awards:
- Selected by Apple as one of their "Best Apps of 2009"
- Selected by Apple in 2010 as one of the "App Store Essentials Hall of Fame"
- Awarded "Best Photography App" in Best App Ever Awards.
- Awarded a Top Pick in O'Reilly's "Best iPhone Apps"
- Selected by iLounge as one of their "100 Essential iPhone Apps"
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Pano Review

Creating panoramic shoots on the iPhone is a breeze

by Tom Hesser, Macworld.com

Pano is an amazing app for creating on-the-spot panoramic photos without the need of desktop software to stitch the photos together. Developed by Debacle Software, Pano does a very simple thing in principle, but the results are incredible given that this is something created by a mobile application.


It’s A Snap: Pano leads you through the whole process of shooting images for a panoramic photo with simple instructions.

Pano relies on the iPhone’s built-in camera to take the images that will make up the completed panoramic shot. (As a result, this app won’t work with the iPod touch.) Pano’s interface is simple and very effective. When you launch Pano, the app prompts you to start taking a series of pictures. Tapping Cancel lets you switch between portrait and landscape orientation, quit, or resume your snapshots.

After each shot, you can discard and retake it, or save and proceed to the next in the series. A semi-transparent portion of the edge of the previous shot allows you to line up the next, continuing until you have completed six shots. After your final shot, Pano stitches the images together into one photo and then saves it to your iPhone’s photo album.

I was amazed with the results. Even after blowing up the image in iPhoto, I had a hard time seeing where the edges of each individual image blended together. In my test image, I even had moving subjects in the background—these were only marred by a slight blur around their edges in Pano’s finished product.

I never had much interest in creating panoramic photos due to the time it took to work with the photos and adjust for misalignments with my camera. Pano makes the process fun. I just wish my six-megapixel camera had this built-in capability.


The Finished Product: Here’s a final version of the Pano-created panoramic shot, assembled from images taken in portrait mode.

Pano is compatible with any iPhone running the iPhone 2.2 software update.

[Tom Hesser loves tech and spends his time testing software on his iPhone, playing with a new gadget, hammering out a blog post, or trying to master the art of podcasting.]

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