About DoubleTake

DoubleTake is for Mac users who like compact cameras, but sometimes wish they could magically pull out a wide angle lens of their pocket, or plug in a sensor with a few extra megapixels for that large print.

DoubleTake handles this by giving you both automatic and manual control of how to stitch photos perfectly, with simple drag and drop.

Price

DoubleTake costs €16.95. When you have paid, you receive a license number which you enter together with your name in the Registration Window.
When you register, the "DoubleTake" watermark disappear from the image.

Upgrade from of previous versions of DoubleTake is free.
 
To purchase DoubleTake, click the Buy button in the Registration Window, or visit my web shop at Kagi (international) or eSellerate (in English only).

License

The license to DoubleTake is a non-exclusive single user license. The license to use DoubleTake is personal and not for rent, lease or resale.

Requirements

DoubleTake requires Mac OS 10.4
DoubleTake 1.6.2 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9

History

Version 2.1 - April 16 2007

• New: Poster printing
• Fixed: problem where handles turned the entire panorama red
• Fixed: Images only overlapping a few pixels would not save withthe overlap only partially drawn

Version 2.0.5 - February 25 2007

• New: Portuguese localization - many thanks to Luis Damas
• New: Swedish localization done by Henrik Dalgaard (jeg er dansker!)

Version 2.0.5 - December 7 2006

• New: You can drop 360 degree images into DoubleTake wrap them into a QTVR movie
• New: Chinese localization by Ayee
• Fixed: rare crash when placing images within 2 pixels of each other with no overlap
• Improved: vertical banding removed when stitching night shots

Version 2.0.4 - August 25 2006

• New: Manual cropping of the panorama
• New: keyboard shortcuts (as in PhotoShop) for zoom to fit and zoom to actual pixels
• Fixed: the with and height fields were disabled on a 2nd save
• Fixed: the selection of images was lost when zooming
• Fixed: ICC profile was not written in TIFF panoramas if the photos were 16 bit

Version 2.0.3 - July 19 2006

• New: Rotate left and right for all images
• Fixed: a memory leak which could make DoubleTake run out of memory after having stitched about 30-60 images
• New: Control click in DoubleTakes window to force it to arrange images in horizontally, vertically or sort by time taken if the default arrangement does not pick the right solution. See the Chamhord sample for such a case.

Version 2.0.2 - July 9 2006

• Fixed: redraw problems with "blank" images after some undo operations. They would redraw again if nudged a bit
• Fixed: QTVR now opens at the zoom and tilt corresponding to the last view in DoubleTake before saving. This did work except if the zoom was at the back seam
• Fixed: the 360 degree seam would not enable if the 2 rightmost images were almost on top of each other
• Improved: the case where the .doubletake files have been moved from the images now asks where they have been moved to.
• New: Save a QTVR from a single image (which is already 360 degrees). Just open the image, turn on the 360 seam and save as QTVR.

Version 2.0.1 - June 20 2006

• Fixed: using the arrow keys, or clicking the geometry sliders and not moving could make images disappear
• Fixed: starting DoubleTake 2 on Mac OS X 10.3.9 now refers to DoubleTake 1.6.2 instead
• Fixed: layout of info window fixed in German, French and Italian

Version 2.0 - June 16 2006

Most of the code is now rewritten to take advantage of Tiger's Core Image graphics card acceleration. It is of course also a Universal Binary.

• Adjust and Geometry tools - try the Samples
• Rotate mode - hit r on keyboard - notice how the corner handles change
• Scale mode - hit s
• Free Perspective mode - hit p
• Normal move mode - hit n
• Image menu
• Exposure matching
• Align button for making manual re-orderings snap together
• Rotation of all selected images at once via the geometry window.
• QTVR save option

Version 2.0 - the beta versions

See the separate beta-readme page for version 2

1.6.2 June 28 2005

• Performance improvement when saving. Mac OS 10.4 is faster for this.
  
• Translation to Dutch - (not proof read yet).
  

1.6.1 June 15 2005

• Banding problem when stitching overexposed images fixed.
  
• Translation to Italian: Pierino Donati - Studio tecnico geom. Pierino Donati

1.6 June 11 2005

• A few extra Save options
  
• Printing
• G4 requirement for Tiger removed
  

1.5 April 13 2005

• Redrawing of the crop frame polished, and a redraw problem is fixed
• Fixed a problem which occurred If you dragged in the images one at a time. DoubleTake could go into infinite loop, and be come unresponsive.
  

1.5b2 - April 12 2005

• You can now save a DoubleTake document which contains references to the original images and how they are arranged. This is handy if you want to come back and do minor adjustments later.
• You can adjust images currently being worked with in DoubleTake in other applications, as iPhoto. If you find one image which needs a bit of rotation or exposure correction, you can do this there and save it. When you return to DoubleTake it will notice that the file has been updated and reload it.
• Images rotated, with tag only rotation, will now show up correctly.
• The x-ray mode of overlapping the images has been replaced by transparency, as this is much simpler, faster, and require less memory. It also has a cool visual effect when DoubleTake blends the overlaps.
• Keyboard sort cuts. See the menus. Arrow keys move the selected image, and turns it transparent for 2 seconds. Useful for fine tuning image positions. Tab selects the next overlap, useful when you are zoomed in.
  
• Dragging more than one image. Select them with the shift key held down.
• Locking overlaps. See the overlap menu, and use the additional shortcut at the space bar.
• Better sorting when opening many images. It sorts by filename, and tries both backwards and forwards order. When sorting fewer than 9 images all possible arrangements are tried. This does not mean that it gets it perfect every time. The Stonehenge example shows why.
• Spelling fixes in the German translation. Danish translation added. I have looked up more words in Japanese. I am happy to receive corrections to the translations.
• New icon
  

1.5b1

• Performance enhancements of all operations.
  
• 2 Crop modes: outside all the images, or inside.
  
• Fish eye correction for shorter focal lengths.
  
• Paste of images from iPhoto. Copy & paste of the merged image to iPhoto
• Undo of the movement operations.
• Automatic guess of arrangement is now enabled for more than 2 images.
• Delete of accidentally imported images. Select it with one click, and chose "Delete".
  

1.0.1

• Fixed crash when moving images with the keyboard.
• Larger handles showing which image is selected for keyboard control.
• Fixed problem reading TIFF files with higher resolution.
  

1.0 March 23 2005

• Simplified and cleaner interface.
  
• More control of the final result.
• Better handling of panoramas wider than 2 images.
• Support for vertically stacked images
  

0.99 February 3 2005

• This is the first release.
  

Bugs and Improvements - in version 2.0.1

• Improve documentation on QTVR.
• Make gallery.

Bugs - in version 1.6.2

DoubleTake requires "Millions of Colors" in your "system preferences" to blend images properly. It is a bug not to put up an alert about this (like iPhoto does). DoubleTake use the graphics card, and this is even more true for the next version.

Bugs - Please Report!

Please report bugs to Henrik Dalgaard - feedback@echoone.com.

Installation

You can test DoubleTake right from the disk image. To install it drag the DoubleTake application from the disk image to the Applications folder on your computers hard drive or anywhere you wish to keep it.

Uninstallation

Drag DoubleTake to the trash.

Credits

Localizations

Portuguese: Luis Damas
French: Ronald Leroux
Japanese: Yukirou Murai
German: Georg Seifert
Chinese: Ayee
Italian: Pierino Donati - Studio tecnico geom. Pierino Donati
Dutch: Sander van Vugt.
Danish, Swedish: Henrik Dalgaard

Localization Tools

iLocalize and Apple's dictionaries.
Translation to German done by Henrik Dalgaard and Sabine Schulz.

Disclaimer

DoubleTake comes with no warranty, expressed or implied. It may or may not work as intended, and I am not responsible for any damages, special, indirect, consequential, or whatsoever caused by using the software.

Contact

Feedback and questions are welcome to:

Henrik Dalgaard
Echo One
feedback@echoone.com