Why is Microsoft ICE limiting my panorama export size when using RAW/DNG files?

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I'm stitching a panorama in Microsoft ICE. With my RAW/DNG source files, ICE only lets me export an image around 5120 px wide, but using the JPEG versions I can render well over 20,000 px. PTGui also exports the panorama at much higher resolution.

Does ICE have a resolution limit, or is this related to using RAW/DNG files? If so, is there a workaround to export the panorama at full size?

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There is no such limit in ICE. You should be able to the output scale to 100% just before you export. It will give you the maximum resolution possible for your panorama. I often use ICE to make panoramas initially since it is so easy and go to something more sophisticated if it fails. There might be a limit IIRC but it is beyond 19K.

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ICE does not appear to have a general 5K panorama-width limit. In normal use, you should be able to set the output scale to 100% before export and get the maximum available resolution.

Based on the reports here, the restriction is likely tied to your source or export format rather than panorama size itself. Several users found that ICE limited output when working from RAW/DNG files, but allowed full-resolution output when those files were first converted to TIFF (or when using JPEGs).

So the practical workaround is:

  • stitch at 100% output scale in ICE
  • if DNG files are limiting size, export them from Lightroom or another RAW converter as TIFF first
  • then stitch/export from those TIFFs instead

There may also be a very high overall image-size limit in ICE (one answer mentions about 537 megapixels), but that is far above 5120 px wide in most cases. In short: this is probably a DNG/format handling issue in ICE, not a normal panorama-resolution cap.

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