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PTgui is a mature Windows and Mac OS X panorama photo stitching program developed by New House Internet Services BV. PTgui was initially created as a GUI frontend to Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools. It currently features its own stitching and blending engine along with compatibility to Panorama Tools. PTgui supports telephoto, normal, wide angle and fisheye lenses to create partial cylindrical up to full spherical panoramas.
PTgui pro also includes HDR and tone mapping support.
[edit] List of features
| Feature |
PTGui |
PTGui Pro |
| Automatic stitching: create panoramas with just a few mouse clicks |
YES |
YES |
| Manual mode: full control over the final result |
YES |
YES |
| Live preview: instantly see the effect of different settings, without the need to stitch first |
YES |
YES |
| Multi row panoramas: images can be stacked both horizontally and vertically |
YES |
YES |
| Stitch rotated and tilted images |
YES |
YES |
| Create HUGE panoramas: stitch hundreds of images into a gigapixel panorama |
YES |
YES |
| Support for JPEG, TIFF and PNG source images |
YES |
YES |
| Create panoramas in JPEG, TIFF or Photoshop format |
YES |
YES |
| Photoshop large document (.psb) support |
YES |
YES |
| Layered Photoshop output, ideal for retouching |
YES |
YES |
| Full support for 16 bit images, for the best image quality |
YES |
YES |
| Panorama editor: interactive adjustment of the panorama perspective |
YES |
YES |
| Create templates with frequently used settings |
YES |
YES |
| QTVR output: directly create a QTVR panorama in PTGui, or convert an existing panorama into QTVR format |
YES |
YES |
| Batch stitcher: prepare any number of panoramas and stitch them later without user intervention. |
YES |
YES |
| Support for multiple processors / multiple core computers |
YES |
YES |
| Stitch and blend HDR source images into an HDR panorama |
- |
YES |
| Stitch and blend bracketed LDR source images into an HDR panorama |
- |
YES |
| Calculate camera response curve from bracketed LDR source images |
- |
YES |
| Built in tone mapper |
- |
YES |
| Support for OpenEXR (.exr) and HDR Radiance (.hdr) source images |
- |
YES |
| Blend Priority parameter (useful for blending the nadir image in a spherical panorama) |
- |
YES |
| Viewpoint correction |
- |
YES |
| Vignetting, exposure and white balance correction |
- |
YES |
| Global adjustment of exposure and white balance |
- |
YES |
[edit] See also
Hugin is an open source alternative also based on Panorama Tools
[edit] Further reading
- Jacobs, Corinna - Interactive Panoramas: Techniques for Digital Panoramic Photography ISBN 3-540-21140-3
- Andrews, Philip - 360 Degree Imaging: The Photographers Panoramic Virtual Reality Manual ISBN 2-88046-732-2
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