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PTgui is a commercial panorama

Panoramic photography

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio...

photo stitching program for Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

and Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

developed by New House Internet Services BV. PTgui was initially created as a GUI

Gui

Gui or guee is a generic term to refer to grilled dishes in Korean cuisine. These most commonly have meat or fish as their primary ingredient, but may in some cases also comprise grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb, "gupda" in Korean, which literally...

frontend to Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools

Panorama Tools (software)

Panorama Tools are a suite of programs and libraries originally written by the German physics and mathematics professor Helmut Dersch. Panorama Tools provides a powerful framework for re-projecting and blending multiple source images into immersive panoramics of many types...

. It currently features its own stitching

Image stitching

Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most approaches to image stitching require nearly exact...

and blending engine along with compatibility to Panorama Tools. PTgui supports telephoto

Telephoto lens

In photography and cinematography, a telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length. This is achieved by incorporating a special lens group known as a telephoto group that extends the light path to create a long-focus...

, normal

Normal lens

In photography and cinematography a normal lens, also called a standard lens, is a lens that reproduces perspective that generally looks "natural" to a human observer under normal viewing conditions, as compared with lenses with longer or shorter focal lengths which produce an expanded or...

, wide angle

Wide-angle lens

From a design perspective, a wide angle lens is one that projects a substantially larger image circle than would be typical for a standard design lens of the same focal length; this enables either large tilt & shift movements with a view camera, or lenses with wide fields of view.More informally,...

and fisheye lens

Fisheye lens

In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in a broad, panoramic and hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology to study cloud formation and called "whole-sky lenses", fisheye lenses quickly became popular in general photography for their unique, distorted...

es to create partial cylindrical up to full spherical panoramas.

The 'free trial version' of PTgui is fully functional but creates panoramas with embedded visible watermarks.

PTgui pro also includes HDR

High dynamic range imaging

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods...

and tone mapping

Tone mapping

Tone mapping is a technique used in image processing and computer graphics to map one set of colors to another in order to approximate the appearance of high dynamic range images in a medium that has a more limited dynamic range...

support.

List of features

Feature	PTGui	PTGui Pro
Automatic stitching Image stitching Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most approaches to image stitching require nearly exact... : create panorama Panorama A panorama is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model.... s with just a few mouse clicks	YES	YES
Manual mode: full control over the final result	YES	YES
Live preview: instantly see the effect of different settings, without the need to stitch first	YES	YES
Multi row panoramas: images can be stacked both horizontally and vertically	YES	YES
Stitch rotated and tilted Tilt (camera) Tilting is a cinematographic technique in which the camera is stationary and rotates in a vertical plane . A rotation in a horizontal plane is known as panning... images	YES	YES
Create HUGE panoramas: stitch hundreds of images into a gigapixel panorama	YES	YES
Support for JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , TIFF and PNG source images	YES	YES
Create panoramas in JPEG, TIFF or Photoshop format	YES	YES
Photoshop large document (.psb) support	YES	YES
Layered Photoshop output, ideal for retouching	YES	YES
Full support for 16 bit images, for the best image quality	YES	YES
Panorama editor: interactive adjustment of the panorama perspective	YES	YES
Create templates with frequently used settings	YES	YES
QTVR output: directly create a QTVR panorama in PTGui, or convert an existing panorama into QTVR format	YES	YES
Batch stitcher: prepare any number of panoramas and stitch them later without user intervention.	YES	YES
Support for multiple processors / multiple core computers	YES	YES
Stitch and blend HDR High dynamic range imaging In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods... source images into an HDR panorama	-	YES
Stitch and blend bracketed LDR source images into an HDR panorama	-	YES
Calculate camera response curve from bracketed LDR source images	-	YES
Built in tone mapper	-	YES
Support for OpenEXR OpenEXR OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic , released under a free software license similar to the BSD license.... (.exr) and HDR Radiance (.hdr) source images	-	YES
Blend Priority parameter (useful for blending the nadir image in a spherical panorama)	-	YES
Viewpoint correction	-	YES
Vignetting Vignetting In photography and optics, vignetting is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the image center. The word vignette, from the same root as vine, originally referred to a decorative border in a book. Later, the word came to be used for a photographic... , exposure Exposure (photography) In photography, exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium during the process of taking a photograph. Exposure is measured in lux seconds, and can be computed from exposure value and scene luminance over a specified area.In photographic jargon, an exposure... and white balance correction	-	YES
Global adjustment of exposure and white balance	-	YES
Exposure Fusion	-	YES
64 bit version	-	YES

List of features

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