Download PTGui 11.4

A frequently discussed piece of software in the Photo & Video Workflow subforum is PTGui. This program focuses on stitching panoramic photos on both macOS and Windows systems. With a stack of photos as input, the program can figure out how to put them next to each other. For the computation-intensive part, it can also use the gpu 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 11.4 was released a few days ago with the following changes:

Version 11.4

• For HDR projects with linked images, in the Control Points tab, PTGui Pro pops up a balloon showing individual images of each bracketed set. This balloon is now shown below the thumbnails, so it does not obscure the toolbar and menu. Also the balloon can be disabled in Options/Preferences | Control Point Editor.
• Improved performance of panorama editor and detail viewer, in particular if GPU acceleration is not available.
• Fixed: Detail viewer ignored the Interpolator setting and always used Lanczos2.
• Fixed: Crash when clicking the option to run Align Images from the Control Point Assistant.

Version 11.3

• Fixed: Switching the blending mode in the panorama editor or detail viewer would result in an empty window.

Version 11.2

• The size of the user interface elements (fonts and icons) is configurable. See Options/Preferences | General.
• Control Points table window: if sorted on first image number, the second image number is also sorted (as a secondary sort index)
• Performance improvements in Panorama Editor and Detail Viewer. In particular the response to adjustments in the tone mapping and exposure fusion parameters is much faster now.
• GPU acceleration can be disabled separately for the panorama editor and detail viewer in Options / Preferences (but still be used for rendering the final panorama)
• Fixed: the panorama editor and detail viewer always used the CPU for rendering, GPU acceleration was not used.
• Fixed: Slow reading or TIFF files.
• Fixed: Convert to QTVR would generate corrupted files (one of the cube tiles was missing).
• Fixed: A more descriptive error message if the tiff files to be sent to Enblend/Smartblend exceed the maximum supported size of 4GB.
• Fixed: A more descriptive error message if writing the output file failed (eg due to a full disk).
• Fixed: The stitcher could hang forever if writing the output file failed (eg due to a full disk).
• Fixed: When rotating an image in the Crop/Mask/Control Points tab, the thumbnails in the Project Assistant would be rotated as well. They now always reflect the orientation of the image in the panorama.