Software Update: PTGui 11.9

A frequently discussed piece of software in the Photo & Video Workflow subforum is PTGui. This program focuses on stitching panoramic photos on both macOS and Windows systems. With a stack of photos as input, the program can figure out how to put them next to each other. For the computation-intensive part, it can also use the gpu via OpenCL to be ready faster. It features various options, where PTGui Pro also makes it possible to combine HDR photos, mask moving objects and adjust the viewing point, among other things. Version 11.9 was released a few days ago with the following changes:

Version 11.9

• Changed the curve of the Pencil Size slider in the Mask tab. Smaller sizes now make up a larger portion of the slider.
• Added Russian translation (thanks Andrey Ilyin!) and improved other translations (thanks Harald Bendschneider, Helmuth E. Günther, Thomas Bredenfeld, Erik Krause, Jeasung Park, Mario Carvajal, Lopertyur)
• Keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+J for ‘Generate control points for all overlapping images’
• Batch Stitcher: new context menu item: Open Containing Folder; opens the project file location in Finder / Explorer
• Added lens profile for Kandao Obsidian R
• Fixed: Batch Stitcher: if Project Settings – Batch Stitcher Actions – ‘only if enough control points found’ is selected, and insufficient control points were found, the project would be marked as Done (with a green check mark). 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.
• Fixed: on Windows, PTGui would by default use the language selected in ‘Regional Settings’ in Control Panel. 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