A frequently discussed piece of software in the Photo & Video Workflow subforum is PTGui. This program focuses on creating and adjusting composite images. This can be a vertical or horizontal panorama, but also one large image with an enormous resolution that is composed of countless individual shots. With a stack of photos as input, the program can then figure out how to put them next to each other. For the computation-intensive part, the GPU can also be used 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:
Changes in version 12.11:
- Previous versions (since 12.0) did not copy the camera response curve from templates. This omission is now fixed. A new field was added to Project Settings – Template Behavior to control whether the camera curve is copied from the template. By default the camera curve is copied except when working with RAW images. This is because PTGui assumes RAW images to be linear, so no camera curve should be used. See the tooltip in Project Settings – Template Behavior for more information.
- PTGui now recognizes that the LEICA DG 8-18/F2.8-4.0 is a rectilinear lens and no longer prompts for the lens type.
- Fixed: macOS: PTGui 12.10 would not be listed in the ‘Open With’ menu for image files in Finder.
| Version number | 12.11 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11 |
| Website | PTGu |
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| License type | Paid |