PTGui Pro

PTGui Pro: Create high quality panoramic images.

The PTGui application was designed to be panoramic stitching software for Windows and Mac OSX. Originally developed as a Graphical User Interface for Panorama Tools (hence the name), PTGui now is a full featured photo stitching application.

PTGui comes in two versions: PTGui and PTGui Pro. The main difference between the two versions is support for HDR stitching, viewpoint correction and vignetting, exposure and white balance correction in PTGui Pro.

PTGui Pro features :

- Automatic stitching: create panoramas with just a few mouse clicks
- Manual mode: full control over the final result
- Live preview: instantly see the effect of different settings, without the need to stitch first
- Multi row panoramas: images can be stacked both horizontally and vertically
- Many panoramic projections
- Stitch rotated and tilted images
- Create HUGE panoramas: stitch hundreds of images into multi gigapixel panoramas
- Support for jpeg, tiff and png source images
- Support for many camera RAW source images (through dcraw)
- Create panoramas in jpeg, tiff or Photoshop format
- Photoshop large document (.psb) support (output only)
- Layered Photoshop output, ideal for retouching
- Full support for 16 bit images, for the best image quality
- Panorama editor: interactive adjustment of the panorama perspective
- QTVR ouput: directly create interactive QuickTime VR panoramas, or convert an existing panorama into QTVR format
- Support for multiple processors / multiple core computers
- Create templates with frequently used settings
- Batch stitcher: prepare your projects and send them to the batch stitcher for stitching when you are away from your computer
- Batch Stitcher can generate control points and set up a panorama
- Batch Builder: scan folders for panoramic source images and automatically create projects based on a template
- Support for Batch Lists (save and load a list of jobs for the Batch Stitcher)
- Stitch and blend HDR source images into an HDR panorama
- Stitch and blend bracketed LDR source images into an HDR panorama
- Calculate camera response curve from bracketed LDR source images
- Built in tone mapper
- Support for OpenEXR (.exr) and HDR Radiance (.hdr) source images
- Blend Priority parameter (useful for blending the nadir image in a spherical panorama)
- Viewpoint correction
- Vignetting, exposure and white balance correction
- Global adjustment of exposure and white balance
- Exposure Fusion
- Configurable Project Settings: control the behaviour of templates, custom default file names and more

Requirements:

- 1 GB of RAM
- At least 1 GB free disk space (for temporary files) is recommended

Limitations:

- Stitched panoramas will have a visible watermark
- Saves only the first 2 images of panorama
- The Panorama Tools stitcher and optimizer are not supported (only the built-in PTGui stitcher and optimizer)
- The trial version expires. Updates will be downloadable from this website
- Nag screen