PTGui

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PTGui
Developer(s) New House Internet Services BV
Initial releaseJuly 27, 2001;23 years ago (2001-07-27)
Stable release
13.0 [1] / January 31, 2025;2 months ago (2025-01-31)
Written in C, C++
Operating system Windows, macOS
Available inEnglish, Russian, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (simplified), German, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese
Type Raster graphics editor
License Commercial proprietary software
Website ptgui.com

PTGui is a panorama photo stitching program for Windows and macOS developed by New House Internet Services BV. PTGui was created as a GUI frontend to Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools. It features its own stitching and blending engine [2] along with compatibility to Panorama Tools. PTGui supports telephoto, normal, wide angle and fisheye lenses [3] to create partial cylindrical up to full spherical panoramas. PTGui can handle multiple rows of images. [4]

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Originally released for Windows, version 6.0.3 introduced support for Mac OS X. [5]

The 'free trial version' of PTGui is fully functional but creates panoramas with embedded visible watermarks. [6]

PTGui Pro also includes HDR and tone mapping support. [7]

The upcoming version 13 beta 8 - though as of Nov. 2024 still slated as beta status, is now reported as quite reliable after 8 iterations - includes the following new features:  a Patch Editor (PTGui Pro only), DNG output, improved RAW / DNG handling, and JPEG 2000 support. [8] [9]
Version 13 beta 8 also claims significant performance improvements when optimizing large panoramas and also a speedier optimum seam finding algorithm. [9]

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Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Version history: https://www.ptgui.com/versionhistory.html
  2. ↑ Woeste, Harald (2008). Panoramafotografie : Theorie und Praxis (1. Aufl ed.). Dpunkt-Verl. p. 64. ISBN   978-3-89864-440-2.
  3. ↑ Bredenfeld, Thomas (2012). Digitale Fotopraxis - Panoramafotografie (2., aktualisierte und erw. Aufl ed.). Galileo Press. pp. 205–219. ISBN   978-3836218610.
  4. ↑ Highton, Scott. Virtual reality photography : creating panoramic and object images (1st ed.). Virtual Reality Photography. p. 101. ISBN   978-0-615-34223-8.
  5. ↑ Lassiter, Tom (March 2007). "PTGui 6.03 vs. Stitcher Unlimited 5.5, Give your photos a 360-degree view". Mac Life. Vol. 1, no. 2. Future US. pp. 66–67. ISSN   1935-4010.
  6. ↑ Kay, Melissa (April 2016). "Master the craft of night panoramas, Get the best results". Digital Camera World. Future Publishing. p. 52. ISSN   1477-1721.
  7. ↑ Bloch, Christian. The HDRI handbook 2.0 : high dynamic range imaging for photographers and CG artists (1st ed.). Rocky Nook, Inc. pp. 483–488. ISBN   978-1-937538-16-3.
  8. ↑ "PTGui 13 beta adds control through a Patch Editor". www.pixelsham.com. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  9. 1 2 "PTGui 13 beta". ptgui.com. Retrieved 2024-11-09.


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