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    PhotoFit Harmony
                                 Ver.   1.10

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Welcome to PhotoFit Harmony and the world of the whole panorama images.
PhotoFit is a high performance stitching software, which comes equipped with high precision multi-column and multi-row stitching ability, automatic focal length detection, automatic distortion cancellation, perfect perspective correction, and many projection types as Linear, Panorama, Ultra-Wide-Linear and Fisheye.

In addition, PhotoFit has easy-to-use interfaces. There are, Image File Finder, non-click thumbnail viewer, drag and drop stitching, PhotoFit Manager and others.

You may simply take overlapped photographs using your digital camera, then you may get a whole panorama image that has wider view angle and has larger pixels!

Enjoy PhotoFit.

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1.  Outstanding features
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Horizontal panoramas, Vertical panoramas and Whole panoramas (two dimensional, both column and row).

Panorama view (cylindrical),  Linear view (flat) and Fisheye view.

Our original Ultra Wide Linear view.

Auto-stitching or D&D-stitching selectable.

Full automatic focal length detection---no lens data file, nor manual input.

Anti-distortion algorithm makes straight line straight.

Easy and exact perspective correction provides you the best quality of output image.

Accepts various image sources. Digital camera image, scanned film image, scanned document image.

Tripod is not required. Auto aligning with tilted or rotated images.

Allows overlapped zone 20% to 100%.  40% to 60% makes the best results.

Ultra-fast thumbnail viewer.

Extraordinary pinpoint color correction. Try it!

Reads and writes BMP, JPG, TIFF and PNG format.

Output to QTVR format.

It can render an extremely large picture, up to one hundred million pixels or more.

Stitch & Stick!  You can make big signboard by printing separately and pasting.

Saves project-file to recreate constructions on later.


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2.  System requirements
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OS   : Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP and NT4
CPU  : Pentium 266 (or faster recommended)
RAM  : 128MB  (512MB recommended)
Disk space  : 50MB
Display colors  : High color or True color.

QTVR : You need to install QuickTime-5 to create QuickTime VR (QTVR).
       To download QTVR, visit directly Apple Computer.
         http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/index.html


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3. Installation
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Your downloaded PFitH110.zip file is archived. Extract it first, if not. However, in case of you can read this text, already, the extraction has completed.

3-1.  The file organization after extract is as follows.
(The mark * means folder name.)

 PFitH1102
 |---PFit_Harmony.exe        The executable program of the PhotoFit.
 |---Read1st-PFH.txt         This text, you are reading now.
 |---Setup.exe               Installation program.
 |---Setup.ini               Ini file for Installation program.
 |-*-PfGuide                 Folder for the operation guide.
 |    |---PfPrdcts.htm       Feature table of the Tekmate PhotoFit family.
 |    |---PfGuide.htm        Compact Guide.
 |    |-*-ImgFiles           Data for PfGuide.
 |    |---PfMnl.htm          Operation Manual.
 |    |-*-PfitMnl.fil        Data for PfitMnl.
 |    |---                   Others.
 |---*Program                Folder for miscellaneous program.
 |---*Pictures               Folder for the sample images.
 |---*Picts360               Folder for the sample images of 360 degree panorama.

3-2. Installation with setup program
(1)  Launch Setup.exe in the extracted file.

(2)  Enter the folder name which you install PhotoFitHarmony. It doesn't care about the folder that doesn't exist yet.  Default folder is C:\program files\PhotoFitHarmony

(3)  Clicking the [execute] button, the Photofit files are copied to your folder and an icon is registered to the Desktop.

(4)  PhotoFit does not affect any Windows system files except registry.


3-3. Manual installation

(1) Copy the extracted files set of PhotoFit to your folder.

(2) Drag PFit_Harmony.exe file and drop it on the Desktop. An icon will be created on the Desktop.

(3) It does not need to copy any PhotoFit file to Windows folder.

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4. Start up
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You can launch PhotoFit by clicking PhotoFit icon on desktop or use Start > Programs menu.

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5. Uninstall
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(1)  In the case PhotoFit was installed with installer, launch Setup.exe in the folder of PhotoFit, put a tick to 'uninstallation', and then execute it.  Another way, follow  Start > Settings > ControlPanel > Add/Remove Programs > PhotoFitHarmony, Press [Add/Remove..] button.
All files are deleted by any way, and the shortcut icon on the desktop is deleted.

(2)  In the case PhotoFit was installed by hand, delete whole folders of the PhotoFit.

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6. Limitations of PhotoFit Harmony
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(1) The projection type of the panoramic mode is limited to the Conformal panorama projection.

(2) The projection type of the fisheye mode is limited to the equidistant fisheye projection.

(3) The projection type of the ring fisheye mode is limited to Conformal fisheye projection.

(4) When the size of the creating image exceeds 12Mpixels(12,000,000 pixels), the creating image becomes black and white colors partially.

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7. Registration
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To register PhotoFit Harmony,  visit our web site.  [ http://www.tpfit.com ]

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8. Support
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For more information, visit our web site.  [ http://www.tpfit.com ]
You may download free sample images from above site.

If you have a problem using PhotoFit, Contact us.  [ support@tpfit.com ]


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9. Restrictions
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The sample images that are contained in this software are copyright protected.


(c) TEKMATE 2003

PhotoFit Harmony  Read1st-PFH.txt
