Download PTGui 11.30

A frequently discussed piece of software in the Photo & Video Workflow subforum is PTGui. This program focuses on creating and adjusting composite images. This can be a vertical or horizontal panorama, but also an enormous resolution of one large image composed of countless individual shots. Using a stack of photos as input, the program can figure out how to put them side by side on both macOS and Windows computers. For the computation-intensive part, the GPU can also be used via OpenCL to be ready faster. It features various options, where PTGui Pro also makes it possible to combine HDR photos, mask moving objects and adjust the viewing point, among other things. Version 11.29 has been released and due to a problem a successor has already appeared. The changelog for both versions looks like this:

Changes in version 11.30:

• Fixed: macOS: PTGui could crash upon startup, or while checking for updates

Changes in version 11.29:

• PTGui will use the (new) functionality provided by Windows 10 to create a dark window. Until now PTGui had to custom draw the window frame in order to get a dark themed window. This solves a few display glitches and will provide better compatibility with future Windows updates.
• Holding down the Shift key while launching PTGui will disable OpenCL for the current session. This may be helpful when dealing with GPU driver bugs.
• All sliders can be moved slower and more precisely by holding down the Shift key while dragging with the mouse, or by holding down Shift while pressing the Arrow keys.
• PTGui is now compatible with macOS 11.0 (Big Sur)
• PTGui now runs natively on future Apple Silicon macs (universal binary)
• Fixed: cropping a cylindrical or equirectangular source image would cause the wrong projection to be used
• Fixed: straightening panorama did not work accurately if a nadir or zenith image was included in the project.
• Fixed: occasional crashing
• Fixed: HDR TIFF files would always contain an alpha channel, even if ‘No alpha channel’ was selected in the file format settings.