Major PTGui update 10.0.3 (GPU stitching!)
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Version 10.0 (29 July 2014)
Major update! For an overview see What's new in PTGui 10.
◦A new blazing fast, GPU accelerated stitching engine. Up to 10 times faster stitching!
◦PTGui now comes with a standalone viewer (Windows and Mac) for equirectangular panoramas. The viewer can also be used outside of PTGui. It supports full screen display on Windows and mac. On mac the trackpad can be used for navigation (swipe and pinch). The viewer can be launched through Tools - PTGui Viewer and via the View / Preview functions in PTGui.
◦New tone mapping algorithm for HDR panoramas with very natural looking results (Pro version)
◦The tone mapper (PTGui Pro only) can now be used for LDR panoramas as well. This works great for boosting the shadows in a non-bracketed panorama and can (at low ISO) avoid the need to shoot bracketed images.
◦New menu Images - Select: this allows for example to delete all images outside the visible area of the panorama. Or in conjunction with the yellow crop lines in the panorama editor, to delete images any rectangular area of the panorama.
◦Options/Preferences - Advanced: RAM usage is now specified as an absolute number of megabytes; previously this was set as a percentage of available RAM
◦Faster loading of uncompressed tiff images from spinning hard disks (reduced chance of disk thrashing)
◦HDR/Exposure tab: section 'HDR' has been reworded
◦Windows: The installer now adds PTGui to the 'Send To' context menu in Explorer. In Explorer you can select a set of images to be stitched, right click and choose 'Send to -> PTGui'.
◦'Set optimum size' button now directly picks the optimum size (formerly 'maximum size' in the popup menu). The options 'For print' and 'For web' have been removed.
◦Changes in the way external viewers are configured: In Options/Preferences - Advanced now up to 3 applications can be configured. These applications will be shown in the popup list under the View button (Create Panorama tab) and Preview button (Preview tab). The new PTGui Viewer is always included for equirectangular panoramas.
◦PTGui now checks upon startup whether the configured temporary folders exist and can be written to; it will warn if there is a problem.
◦Slightly improved detail in exposure fused result in areas with saturated colors
◦Updated dcraw to version 9.22
◦Added EXIF sensor size data for a number of cameras
◦Fix: mac: several windows had a keyboard shortcut Cmd+C for the Close or Cancel button. This would override the keyboard shortcut for copying to clipboard. These windows can now be closed using the Esc key and copying can be done using Cmd+C.
◦Fix: mac: if individual lens settings were used, PTGui would crash if the lens type for an image was changed in the Image Parameters tab
◦Fix: Minor layout issues in main window
◦Fix: Blending artifacts when stitching RAW images
◦Fix: Blending artifacts when generating HDR panoramas
◦Fix: PTGui web viewer will no longer use CSS3D in Firefox under Linux, due to rendering bugs in this browser
◦Fix: PTGui web viewer previously had a minimum size of approximately 300 pixels, causing problems on small (smartphone) screens
◦Removed support for 16 bit linear HDR output: previously PTGui Pro could save HDR output in a 16 bit fixed point TIFF or PSD file. This is no longer possible, HDR output is now 32 bit floating point or 16 bit half float EXR. Note that this was a rarely used feature, and regular 16 bit output is still fully supported for low dynamic range and tone mapped output.
◦PTStitcher is no longer supported
◦The 'Use Quicktime Player' option for previewing has been removed (current QuickTime versions do not support panoramas anymore)
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Version 10.0 (29 July 2014)
Major update! For an overview see What's new in PTGui 10.
◦A new blazing fast, GPU accelerated stitching engine. Up to 10 times faster stitching!
◦PTGui now comes with a standalone viewer (Windows and Mac) for equirectangular panoramas. The viewer can also be used outside of PTGui. It supports full screen display on Windows and mac. On mac the trackpad can be used for navigation (swipe and pinch). The viewer can be launched through Tools - PTGui Viewer and via the View / Preview functions in PTGui.
◦New tone mapping algorithm for HDR panoramas with very natural looking results (Pro version)
◦The tone mapper (PTGui Pro only) can now be used for LDR panoramas as well. This works great for boosting the shadows in a non-bracketed panorama and can (at low ISO) avoid the need to shoot bracketed images.
◦New menu Images - Select: this allows for example to delete all images outside the visible area of the panorama. Or in conjunction with the yellow crop lines in the panorama editor, to delete images any rectangular area of the panorama.
◦Options/Preferences - Advanced: RAM usage is now specified as an absolute number of megabytes; previously this was set as a percentage of available RAM
◦Faster loading of uncompressed tiff images from spinning hard disks (reduced chance of disk thrashing)
◦HDR/Exposure tab: section 'HDR' has been reworded
◦Windows: The installer now adds PTGui to the 'Send To' context menu in Explorer. In Explorer you can select a set of images to be stitched, right click and choose 'Send to -> PTGui'.
◦'Set optimum size' button now directly picks the optimum size (formerly 'maximum size' in the popup menu). The options 'For print' and 'For web' have been removed.
◦Changes in the way external viewers are configured: In Options/Preferences - Advanced now up to 3 applications can be configured. These applications will be shown in the popup list under the View button (Create Panorama tab) and Preview button (Preview tab). The new PTGui Viewer is always included for equirectangular panoramas.
◦PTGui now checks upon startup whether the configured temporary folders exist and can be written to; it will warn if there is a problem.
◦Slightly improved detail in exposure fused result in areas with saturated colors
◦Updated dcraw to version 9.22
◦Added EXIF sensor size data for a number of cameras
◦Fix: mac: several windows had a keyboard shortcut Cmd+C for the Close or Cancel button. This would override the keyboard shortcut for copying to clipboard. These windows can now be closed using the Esc key and copying can be done using Cmd+C.
◦Fix: mac: if individual lens settings were used, PTGui would crash if the lens type for an image was changed in the Image Parameters tab
◦Fix: Minor layout issues in main window
◦Fix: Blending artifacts when stitching RAW images
◦Fix: Blending artifacts when generating HDR panoramas
◦Fix: PTGui web viewer will no longer use CSS3D in Firefox under Linux, due to rendering bugs in this browser
◦Fix: PTGui web viewer previously had a minimum size of approximately 300 pixels, causing problems on small (smartphone) screens
◦Removed support for 16 bit linear HDR output: previously PTGui Pro could save HDR output in a 16 bit fixed point TIFF or PSD file. This is no longer possible, HDR output is now 32 bit floating point or 16 bit half float EXR. Note that this was a rarely used feature, and regular 16 bit output is still fully supported for low dynamic range and tone mapped output.
◦PTStitcher is no longer supported
◦The 'Use Quicktime Player' option for previewing has been removed (current QuickTime versions do not support panoramas anymore)
