PTGUI
A clean and widely used GUI for the panotools under Windows and Mac OS X. Shareware. (30 days trial, 79 EUR or 149 EUR for the pro version with HDR support). PTGui has an enormous amount of features which implies a steep learning curve. For some of the features see tutorials section below.
User Comments
I've been using PTGUI for about a year now and I am very happy with it. In combination with Autopano and Enblend it makes for an almost care-free system that allow me to concentrate on the photography rather than on the computing. The user interface is intuitive although I miss the possibility to zoom on a section of the panorama and do micropositioning (keys to move images by one pixel in the four directions, rotate left or right by a degree, "shrink or expand" an image). Maybe a feature for future versions?
Yuval 17:33, 6 Dec 2004 (EST)
Screenshots
- http://www.ptgui.com/images/quicktour5/tutorial1.gif
- http://www.ptgui.com/images/quicktour5/tutorial2.gif
- http://www.ptgui.com/images/quicktour5/tutorial3.gif
- http://www.ptgui.com/images/quicktour5/tutorial4.gif
Tutorials
Internal
There is a rating system indicated by 's:
: Basic need (You are interested in panoramic photography and stitching and need to know basics)
: Nice to know (You have basic knowledge and want to learn more)
: Specialised (You want to get the most of your equipement)
- Circular cropping values in PTGui
- Edit zenith and nadir in one go with PTGui
- Extracting and inserting rectilinear Views
- Full 16 bit workflow
- How to stitch flat images
- How to use enblend for patching zenith and nadir images
- Leveling a Finished Panorama
- Perspective correction
- Stitching Nadir Shots
- Unusual remappings
- Using Autopano-SIFT With PTGui
External
- Quick Tour (PTGui site)
- How to straighten a curved horizon (PTGui site)
- Post processing a layered panorama (PTGui site)
- How to use Panorama Tools to produce a printable panorama (John Houghton)
- How to straighten horizons and correct verticals - John Houghton
- Correction of image distortion and perspective using Panorama Tools and PTgui - Philo
- Ultra-High Resolution Digital Mosaics (pdf) - J. Brian Caldwell, Ph.D.
- Stitching Panoramas with PTGUI and Panorama Tools (PTGui 0.15) - Lutz Kretzschmar
- Correcting lens distortion with Straight Line control points and PTGui - Erik Krause
Deutsch:
- Panoramen erstellen mit PanoTools und PTGui - Bernhard Vogl
- Entzerrung und die unverstandene Horizontlinie - Bernhard Vogl
- 360 Grad-Panoramen - Bernhard Vogl
- Verzeichnung und Farbfehler korrigieren mit PanoTools und PTGui - Erik Krause
Français:
- Faire un Panorama avec PTgui - Adrien Bonnat