PTGui
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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]
| PTGui | |
|---|---|
| Developer | New House Internet Services BV |
| Initial release | July 27, 2001 |
| Stable release | 13.0[1]
/ January 31, 2025 |
| Written in | C, C++ |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS |
| Available in | English, Russian, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (simplified), German, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese |
| Type | Raster graphics editor |
| License | Commercial proprietary software |
| Website | ptgui |
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]
See also
- Hugin – an open source alternative also based on Panorama Tools
Further reading
- Jacobs, Corinna (2004). Interactive Panoramas: Techniques for Digital Panoramic Photography. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 3540211403.
- Andrews, Philip (2003). 360 Degree Imaging: The Photographer's Panoramic Virtual Reality Manual. RotoVision. ISBN 9782880467326.
