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. The stitched panorama can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading it to the Photosynth web site. Or the panorama can be saved in a wide variety of image formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by Silverlight's Deep Zoom and by the HD View and HD View SL panorama viewers.

Features:

Accelerated stitching on multiple CPU cores

Ability to publish, view, and share panoramas on the Photosynth web site

Support for "structured panoramas" — panoramas consisting of hundreds of photos taken in a rectangular grid of rows and columns (usually by a robotic device like the GigaPan tripod heads)

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

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

Native support for 64-bit operating systems

Wide range of output formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, HD Photo, and Silverlight Deep Zoom
Support

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is provided free of charge and without official support. However, if you have questions or issues with Image Composite Editor, you may find help at the Image Composite Editor Forum, which is monitored by the developers and provides community-based support.