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PTGui

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 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 can handle multiple rows of images.

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PTGui
DeveloperNew House Internet Services BV
Initial releaseJuly 27, 2001 (2001-07-27)
Stable release
13.01 / January 31, 2025 (2025-01-31)
Written inC, C++
Operating systemWindows, macOS
Available inEnglish, Russian, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (simplified), German, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese
TypeRaster graphics editor
LicenseCommercial proprietary software
Websiteptgui.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 engine2 along with compatibility to Panorama Tools. PTGui supports telephoto, normal, wide angle and fisheye lenses3 to create partial cylindrical up to full spherical panoramas. PTGui can handle multiple rows of images.4

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.89
Version 13 beta 8 also claims significant performance improvements when optimizing large panoramas and also a speedier optimum seam finding algorithm.9

See also

See also

Further reading

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.
References

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. "PTGui 13 beta". ptgui.com. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
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