Windows software

Basic Library

Most software listed on this page will need the pano12.dll library to work. You will find the pano12.dll library with the Panorama Tools

Stitching Software

Panorama Tools is a high quality Open Source panorama stitching software package.

Hugin(free, Open Source GUI)

PTAssembler (shareware)

PTGUI (shareware)

Anything else?

Helpers

Autopano automatically identifies control points. Works with Hugin, PTAssembler, PTGUI

Enblend overlays images so to make the seam invisible. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin and PTGUI

Remallax removes some parallax prior to stitching. Just a project, nothing usable available

Enblend Front End simplifies the use of Enblend

APClean is a program that can be used to quickly remove wrong control points (sometimes created by Autopano) from a PTGui project file. It can also be used to see which image pairs are linked by control points.

Photoshop plug-ins

• There are some in the original Panorama Tools by Helmut Dersch
• PT Lens free lens distorsion correction.
• Contrast Masking Actions lightens shadows and darkens highlights.
• Contrast Blending Actions combine a bracketed series of images to extend dynamic range.

Viewers

Quicktime

FSPViewer: a fast viewer for local, high resolution panoramic images.

SPi-V Hardware accelerated full screen viewer based on Shockwave 3D with very smooth movement and possibilities for special effects.

can somebody please link to other tools?

Non-Panoramic use

PT Shift chromatic aberration determination

PT Lens lens distortion correction

Printing

QImage is a commercial tool for printing up to 100.000 pixels wide images on roll paper even across paper size limitations (on some printers)