Beware of this and other products from Arcsoft. Entirely slows down your Mac by running some weird services, causing Spotlight and Intego Virus Barrier running at 100% CPU usage.

DO NOT USE ANY ARCSOFT PRODUCT!

I saw the MacUpdate reminder that this panorama maker 7 offer was expiring soon, so I came to the page. I spotlighted the words and found I too had bought (and never used) Panorama Maker 5. And, for good reason. I launched it to see if the app's built in Upgrade would offer something different. Forget about it. The app launched and started looking for unmounted drives, then looking for a movie I do not know even exists, and then just hung with the Cancel button inoperative.

Figuring there was no harm in trying out the trial version of PM7 I went to their site… what a bunch of BS… it downloads the free trial (linked on the PM7 page) but it is PM5. That probably means PM7 is even worse than PM5 Mac. The PC version too is an older version that it downloads.

Then I remembered why over the years I had never had any positive experience with any ArcSoft product… probably some nice guys and gals in some now bigger sized garage with good wishes and ideas but poor implementation.

Alas, even as a big fan of panoramas for decades, even at this discounted price I would not and cannot risk this.

Imran

I scan my paintings on a flatbed scanner and then join the images. I was using an older windows app was $300 at the time Panavue, it had auto but I preferred fully manual for doing flags to join images.

Panorama Maker is starting to look like it. I wish it had more manual overrides, I think parallax issues of a camera compared to a flatbed image gives me more grief cause that setting isn't available so the software has to work harder to join.

If I do each row in slices and then join the final image I get a 600 MB massive crisp image. I was able to get it working perfect once and it will likely do the job!

A different app called PanoEdit worked faster but had some blurry spots, I literally did get a perfect scan joined, it took some effort and playing around with the Panorama Maker 5 software, but I'm glad I bought it. The trial software never seemed to work, plunking down the CASH to unlock the app helped. I paid $30 seeing it on sale on MUpromo and although had failures earlier plunked down the cash.

I'm elated that I have a $30 mac app that could be equal to a $300 PC app, I'm looking forward to using this application again.

I recommend the developers buy Panavue then grab a canvas painting and scan it on a flatbed and start joining the painting back together again, I'm sure you would be able to make improvements for Mozaic flatbed scanning.

But I'm impressed with this app and I have bought a lot of stitching apps that go nowhere. This one is a keeper, I tried your earlier versions and they didnt work, so this software is starting to mature and be a professional product.

Get the PRO!

I'm afraid I can't give it positive review. On my Mac Pro running 10.8.2 it installed perfectly, but wouldn't run. Upon launch it started using up CPU cycles and Activity Monitor show it "not responding" for about 10 minutes before I gave up and force quit it. I also needed to force quit an ArcSoft Daemon.

[I didn't want to rate anything except stability, because it isn't really fair of me to rate features, ease of use, etc. when I can't get it to run, but MU doesn't allow one to give a rating unless one rates each of the categories]

Really cool. I love it.

Crashed upon launch. Seems to be primarily a Windows company because the support request I sent from the web site says 7-9 days for a response!