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Why Stitch At All
Some Rooms Do Not Fit in One Frame
A long kitchen-diner, a narrow galley, a terrace running the width of the building — go wide enough to hold them in one shot and the lens bends the room outward at the edges until the proportions stop being true. Buyers read that distortion as a small room being oversold, which is the opposite of what the shot was for.
Panning across in overlapping frames and stitching them keeps the geometry honest and the resolution high. The difficulty moves into the merge. Automatic stitching is confident on detailed scenes and quietly terrible on the things properties are full of — plain painted walls, repeating floor tiles, kitchen splashbacks, flat water. It finds a match that is not there and puts a kink through a doorframe.
So we place control points by hand where the software has nothing to grip on, square the verticals and the horizon across the full width, blend out anything that moved between frames, and grade the whole sweep as one image rather than a row of them. $3 per finished panorama, not per input frame.
Want a navigable sphere rather than a flat image? That is 360 virtual tour editing, priced per pano input. Costing a whole listing? The real estate photo editing cost guide sets every service against sourced market rates.
What Is Included
One Image, No Visible Joins
Multi-Frame Stitching
Overlapping frames merged into one continuous image, with control points placed by hand where automatic stitching gives up — repeating tiles, plain walls, open water.
Alignment Correction
Verticals straightened and the horizon levelled across the full width. Door frames and wall corners have to stay parallel or the join announces itself.
Ghosting and Seam Removal
Doubled edges where something moved between frames — a branch, a curtain, a person walking through — blended out so the seam disappears.
Lighting Optimisation
Exposure evened across the sweep. A pan from a window wall to a dark corner exposes differently at each end, and the finished image must not show it.
Colour Enhancement
White balance matched frame to frame, then the whole panorama graded as one image so the left side does not run warmer than the right.
Detail Preservation
Resolution kept through the merge and the crop, so the finished panorama still holds up printed on a window card or a full-width brochure spread.
When To Use It
Worth It On These
Narrow rooms a single frame cannot hold
Open-plan living and kitchen-diners
Full-width window and view shots
Long gardens, terraces and balconies
Waterfront and coastal outlooks
Commercial floor plates and warehouses
Brochure spreads and window cards
Listing headers that need width, not height
How It Runs
Frames to Finished in 24 Hours
1
Send the overlapping frames
The whole sweep, in order, JPEG or RAW. Send every frame including the ones you think are redundant — spare overlap makes the blend better, not worse.
2
Tell us the output
Aspect ratio, final width, and where it is going — portal listing, brochure spread, window card. The crop is decided by the destination, so it is worth a line.
3
We stitch, align and grade
Frames merged, control points corrected by hand where needed, verticals and horizon squared, ghosting blended out, and the full sweep graded as a single image.
4
Review and revise
Back in 24 to 48 hours. Look along the joins at full width — if anything doubles or bends, say so and we will re-blend that section.
Most panoramas delivered in 24 to 48 hours. Rush available on request.
Common Questions
Panorama stitching questions
How much does panorama stitching cost?
Panoramas start at $3 each, priced per finished panorama rather than per input frame. Whether the sweep took four frames or nine, the price is for the image you get back.
What is the difference between a panorama and a 360 tour?
A panorama is a flat wide image you look at, delivered as one file from $3. A 360 tour is a navigable sphere you move around inside, priced from $2 per pano input because a tour is many shooting positions. If you want a single wide photo for a listing or a brochure, you want a panorama.
How much overlap do the frames need?
Roughly a third between neighbouring frames is comfortable, and more is better than less. Send every frame in the sweep including any you think are redundant — spare overlap gives the blend more to work with.
My stitching software leaves a kink in the doorframe. Can you fix that?
Yes, and it is the most common reason people send us a sweep. Automatic stitching struggles on plain walls, repeating tiles and flat water because there is nothing distinctive to match on. We place control points by hand in those areas instead.
Can you stitch an existing panorama that came out badly?
If you still have the original frames, yes — we would rather re-stitch from source than patch a bad merge. If the frames are gone we can often repair alignment and blending on the flattened image, but the result is limited by what is already baked in.
What if someone walked through the shot?
That produces ghosting — a doubled or half-transparent figure at the join. We blend it out as part of the standard stitch, along with curtains, branches and anything else that moved between frames.
Will the exposure be even across the whole width?
Yes. A pan from a window wall to a dark corner exposes very differently at each end, so we even the exposure across the sweep and grade the panorama as one image rather than a row of separate frames.
Is the resolution high enough for print?
Yes. Resolution is preserved through the merge and the crop, so a stitched panorama holds up on a window card or a full-width brochure spread — usually better than a single wide-angle frame would.
Can I see it on my own frames first?
Yes. Send one sweep and we will stitch it free, with no card required. Look along the joins at full width before you send a whole shoot.
Other Real Estate Editing
A panorama is usually one line on a listing order. These are the rest.
Get Started
Send Us a Sweep
Tell us how many panoramas and what they are going into, and we'll quote within 24 hours.
Panorama Stitching
Project Details
Tell us how many panoramas, roughly how many frames per sweep, and the final width or aspect ratio you need.