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Updated Russian translation thanks Magomed Khaybulaev! Added camera sensor sizes of new cameras. These lenses exist in multiple variants; the appropriate focal length must be entered. Fixed: Olympus ED mm lens was recognized as fisheye instead of rectilinear. Fixed: Crash when working with large gigapixel source images with alpha channel.

Fixed: Images from Yi latest firmware were not recognized. Smaller sizes now make up a larger portion of the slider.

Added Russian translation thanks Andrey Ilyin! Now it will be marked in the Batch Stitcher as Failed with a red cross. Fixed: 'assertion failed' error when loading images from certain cameras Fixed: layer names in Photoshop output were garbled if they contained non-ascii characters Fixed: numbering for individual image layers in Photoshop output would start from 0 instead of 1 Fixed: individual layers would be output in a different order than in which they appeared in the project.

They now follow the same order again Fixed: when outputting individual layers, PTGui could skip images if they were outside the visible area of the panorama. Now a file or Photoshop layer will be created for every source image. Fixed: crash when deleting all images except one from a set of linked bracketed images Fixed: manually linking images by right clicking in the Source Images tab would change the order of the images. It will now use the language selected in Preferred Languages in Region and Language.

This default language can be overridden in Options. Fixed: Mac: Tools - Open Folder would not open the selected folder, but its parent folder Version This solves the problem, but GPU accelerated stitching will be somewhat slower. This also causes better rejection of control points on moving objects e. If the output folder for the panorama does not exist, it will be created automatically when stitching the panorama Batch Stitcher: new function File Append Batch List.

This adds all projects from the selected Batch List to the currently active Batch List. Batch Builder: if the batch stitcher is still busy stitching the previous Batch List when sending another Batch List to the Batch Stitcher, it will now offer to append the new batch list instead of replacing the active batch list. Fixed: Lens database associations for GoPro cameras were ignored Fixed: When tone mapping LDR panoramas containing some black areas, the tone mapped panorama could be completely black.

Fixed: Importing a PTGui 10 project containing individual lens parameters circular fisheye would result in the wrong lens parameters being assigned Fixed: Under some circumstances, straight lines near the center of a wide angle fisheye image could become curved Fixed: Fill Yaw right click in Image Parameters table didn't function correctly Fixed: Batch Builder: if the 'one subfolder per camera' configuration was used, the images in the generated projects would be sorted by the file names.

This could result in unexpected swapping of images. Images are now sorted by the name of the containing folder. Fixed: File name suffixes for cube face filenames as set in Tools - Convert to Cubic were not preserved across restarts Fixed: Windows: crash when loading corrupted jpeg files Fixed: When editing and re-saving images in another application while they are loaded in PTGui, PTGui could pop up an error message about corrupt or empty files.

PTGui will now wait until the image is saved completely by the other application. Fixed: PTGui would use 'circular fisheye' for the tokina at 10mm, while it could use fullframe fisheye Fixed: For large panoramas PTGui would create too large temporary files up to 2 TB each , wasting temporary disk space when stitching large panoramas.

Fixed: Windows: crash if the drive containing temporary files is disconnected while PTGui is running e. See Q2. Fixed: certain papywizard files were not imported correctly for HDR panoramas containing bracketed images. Fixed: PTGui now remembers across sessions whether one or two images were shown in the Mask tab. This balloon is now shown below the thumbnails, so it does not obscure the toolbar and menu.

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.

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. Fixed: A more descriptive error message if writing the output file failed e.

Fixed: The stitcher could hang forever if writing the output file failed e. They now always reflect the orientation of the image in the panorama. Fixed: 'assertion failed' error when optimizing certain projects with one or more 'use control points of' checkboxes deselected. First of all: software piracy has been a ongoing problem for almost the entire 17 years of PTGui's existence.

To protect against piracy PTGui 11 will require online activation upon installation. The licensing itself has not been changed, e. We've made it as user friendly as possible: if you buy a new computer PTGui can be deactivated with one click and immediately moved to a different machine.

For computers not connected to internet an offline activation method is provided. Activations can be managed online using just the license key. And in case of a hard disk crash, a stolen laptop, etc. New, dark-themed user interface. New 'fisheye projection' parameter, to provide support for all known fisheye projections.

PTGui includes lens presets for many known fisheye lens models. By knowing the lens projection, the cropping circle is set more accurately and more control points will be found.

Landscape and portrait images can now be mixed in the same project. New Lens Database. The same entry can be used for landscape and portrait images.

New Camera Database, to store custom camera sensor sizes. Entries can be associated with EXIF data. This will make it much easier to incorporate new features in the future. Of course PTGui 11 can read project files from previous versions. Also an 'export to PTGui 10' function is included to enable interoperability with previous versions and third party software, although this will not cover the new functionalities and parameters.

The Panorama Tools optimizer can no longer be used with PTGui; many of the new features such as the new fisheye lens model are incompatible with Panorama Tools. The PTGui optimizer now natively supports 'line type' control points. Smooth zooming in the Control Points, Crop and Mask tabs. Mac users can use Pinch gestures to zoom Mac: Touchpad two-finger rotate gesture can be used to rotate the images in the Mask, Crop and Control Points tabs Images can be re-ordered by dragging them in the Source Image tab.

Multiple images can be dragged at once. Batch Lists files are now supported in the standard version. Previously this was a Pro feature. Gigapixel panoramas can be output as. Reduced memory use when handling large panoramas in the GUI. When opening a project in PTGui 10 all images would be loaded in memory and subsequently swapped to disk. PTGui 11 only keeps reduced size thumbnails in memory, loading full size images when needed.

When opening a project or adding new images, PTGui first reads any embedded thumbnail from the images. This results in a nearly instant panorama preview. The OpenEXR library has been updated to v2. PTGui is now a single process application: multiple projects can be open in a single running PTGui application. The Batch Stitcher runs in the same process.

In particular on Mac this is the expected behavior: there's only one icon visible in the Dock. File - Open and File - New will open a new window. Double clicking a. Improved ability to handle symmetrical panoramas: PTGui 10 could get confused by images taken from the center of a symmetrical room. It would place control points not only on overlapping images, but also between similar looking features on opposite sides of the room.

This caused a completely misaligned panorama and confused users. PTGui 11's Align Images function handles this more intelligently and generally gives a perfectly aligned panorama.

Added option to use simple alpha blending instead of the default Multiband blending algorithm. This is useful for combining non overlapping images such as cube faces where multiband blending causes defects.

And when stitching 32 bit HDR source images alpha blending may give better results. The PTGui stand alone panorama viewer now uses Lanczos pixel interpolation, resulting in a sharper image previously it used bilinear interpolation.

Panorama output size can be fixed to either a percentage of the optimum size, or to a certain number of megapixels. The output size is recalculated automatically after changing the projection or field of view.

The scroll bars of the two images in the Mask tab can be linked, just like in the Control Points tab. Reset disables optimization and will reset the viewpoint parameters to 0. Previously this had to be done manually after disabling viewpoint optimization.

Control point generator now supports equirectangular images as well. Control point generator works well with 32 bit HDR source images. In PTGui 10 it was often necessary to add control points manually. Preview Exposure now 'snap' at the value 0, so they can be easily reset to zero. Previously it would store temporary files on the drive with the most space available.

Previously temp files would not be removed if PTGui crashed or was forcefully closed. Temporary data is now written to disk in a few large files instead of many small ones, improving performance. Windows: if a progress window is being shown 'please wait Some Fujifilm cameras incorrectly record a focal length of 50mm in the EXIF data when a manual lens is used. PTGui identifies and corrects this. EXR output: the compression algorithm and bit depth 32 bit full float or 16 bit half float are now configurable If stitching is canceled, or aborted due to an error, all incomplete output files will be deleted.

Previously PTGui would leave unfinished corrupt files, potentially causing other applications to crash if they attempted to load the corrupt file. This should give a significant speed improvement when aligning gigapixel panoramas and reduces the chances of faulty control points. This behavior can be enabled using the 'Images are already roughly positioned' flag in Project Settings - 'Align images' behavior.

This flag also appears in the Project Assistant when appropriate, after applying a template, after applying a PapyWizard file or after using Align to Grid.

Also a new option 'Generate Control Points for overlapping images' has been added to the Control Points menu. The control points table in the Control Points tab has been moved to the right hand side of the window.

Control point numbers are shown in the same color as the corresponding markers in the images. The table can be collapsed when it is not needed. The contents of the metadata dialog box has been moved to a new Metadata tab in the main window. Batch Builder: new layout. The options for combining and removing projects are no longer shown as hyperlinks in the projects list, but have been moved to the right-click context menu.

Batch Builder: new configuration 'Multiple cameras, one subfolder per camera'. This is intended for creating time lapse panoramas using multi camera rigs. The memory card from each camera should be copied to a separate subfolder. Each subfolder should contain the same number of images, in the same ascending numerical order. The generated project files will take one image from each folder. These cameras produce a single image containing two circular images side by side.

This behavior can be disabled in Project Settings - Miscellaneous if necessary. This even works in the Batch Builder. Due to manufacturing tolerances there will be small differences between individual cameras of the same type, resulting in different small offsets of the image circles. A template can be created for each individual camera by taking a photo outside, with no objects close to the camera , adding control points and optimizing. Then do File - Save As Template. OpenCL is now initialized in the background.

No longer shows the 'Initializing OpenCL True command line stitching without showing any windows. The command does not return until stitching has finished, so this makes it easy to include PTGui as part of a larger batch process. Three options: Link images in the same way as in the template Automatically link images based on exposure EXIF Don't modify the way images are linked This makes it possible for example to apply a template of a non-HDR project to an HDR project with bracketed images.

New option: Project Settings - Miscellaneous - Set the panorama projection to equirectangular when loading wide angle images. This immediately changes the panorama projection when loading a spherical image or an image with a field of view of degrees or more. Re-projecting an equirectangular image can now be done just by loading a equirectangular image into PTGui and dragging in the Panorama Editor.

Batch Stitcher: the ordering of projects can be modified. Projects can be dragged up and down by clicking in the left hand header.

If selected which is the default , the 'CP type to add' in the Control Points tab will be reset to the default value after switching images. The default value is 'Normal' if two different images are selected, or 'Vertical Line' if the same image is selected in both panels.

This setting is a common source of confusion, so this should make it more clear what the batch stitcher will be doing. PTGui 11 continuously recalculates the control point distances in the background PTGui 10 only did this when running the optimizer.

When loading a project or adding images, PTGui initially attempts to load the thumbnails embedded in the image file if available. This gives a nearly instant panorama preview, even for panoramas consisting of hundreds of images. The computer is now prevented from going to sleep while stitching, aligning and optimizing projects. Convert to cube faces: this now adds the focal length to the EXIF data of the generated images. When loaded back in PTGui, the lens parameters are set to 90 degrees field of view.

Added sensor size data for many new camera models PTGui now offers a straightforward method for assembling cube faces into an equirectangular image. Just start a new project, add the 6 cube face images and go straight to Create Panorama. PTGui will use these names to figure out which of the 6 images is which cube face. Improved 'Delete Worst Control Points'. PTGui 10 was very conservative and would often not remove outlying control points.

These have been removed. For new panoramas the desired mode can be selected in the Publish to Website window. Existing web pages can be switched to the 'drag' mode by replacing PTGuiViewer. PTGui supports several panoramic projections including equirectangular for spherical panoramas , rectilinear for architectural scenes with straight lines and stereographic, for Little Planet images such as this one.

For a comparison see all features ». Try Give PTGui a try! The trial version is fully functional, there's no time limit, but stitched panoramas have a visible watermark. Buy Or purchase a license and start creating your own panoramas! Buy a license. Gallery A few examples of panoramas created by PTGui users:. Pretty Good Solitaire v Aurora 3D Presentation Microsoft Office Project Professional SatPC32 v Sage ACT Premium Acronis True Image Home Corel Website Creator X6.

Sage Payroll v IDM UltraEdit v Zoner Photo Studio Professional v How can I show a panorama on my website? How can I publish a panorama to Facebook? Why does Facebook display my panorama as a flat image, not as an interactive panorama? How do I fill the missing parts to make the panorama truly spherical?

After running Publish to Website my panorama has black holes at the top and bottom; how do I get rid of these? PTGui leaves some blank space around my panorama. How can I crop the panorama so that it fills the canvas entirely? How can I tell PTGui to output panoramas at a specific size?

How can I defish a fisheye image in PTGui? How can I extract a 'flat' image from a spherical panorama? I have taken multiple panoramas from the same viewpoint, to create a time lapse movie. How can I ensure that subsequent panoramas are aligned when played back in sequence?

My project contains one or more images without any recognizable detail and it's impossible to place control points. How can I stitch my panorama? How can I view a finished panorama interactively on my computer? Is it possible to view a panorama interactively without needing to install a plugin first?

How can I do this? How can I stitch a PTGui project from the command line? Can I use PTGui to arrange pictures into a collage? How can I stitch panoramic video in PTGui? Is there a way to stitch many panoramas using the same settings?

How can I make 'little planet' images in PTGui? Do you offer a Lightroom plugin? Can you tell me how to make 3d stereoscopic panoramas in PTGui? How can I stitch two back-to-back circular fisheye images? How can I retouch the nadir of a spherical panorama? How can I prevent PTGui from placing control points in certain areas? We are trying to parse a PTGui. Can you explain how the lens parameters are stored?

How can I rotate individual images? The rotation buttons in the Project Assistant tab only seem to rotate all images together. My images don't contain EXIF exposure information. Can I still use them to stitch HDR panoramas? PTGui Pro doesn't recognize my bracketed exposures!

What does linking images do? Can I retouch an HDR panorama, e. I would like to stitch my panorama in PTGui Pro, but use another application e.