Software update: PTGui 12.18

A regularly 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 separate shots. With a stack of photos as input, the program can then figure out how to place them next to each other. For the calculation-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. Since version 12.16, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 12.18:

• Fixed: the Batch Builder could crash when generating projects

Changes in version 12.17:

• Added lens profile for the 7Artisans 4mm f2.8 fisheye lens
• Linux: the computer is now prevented from going to sleep while PTGui is stitching a panorama. On macOS and Windows this was already implemented, but not yet on Linux.
• Fixed: Stitching DNG files with transparency (alpha channel) would result in the error message ‘The pixel format of this image is different from the pixel format recorded in the project file.’
• Fixed: Images from the Insta360 OneRS with the 4k lens are now correctly recognized. Previously PTGui assumed all images from this camera were spherical dual lens images.
• Fixed: Linux: PTGui Failed to start if the LANG environment variable was set to an unsupported language.
• Fixed: Linux: PTGui crashed with SIGBUS error if the temporary folder ran out of space. Now PTGui will show an error message instead.
• Fixed: Linux: ‘Open in default application for .jpg files (etc)’ did not always work.
• Fixed: Linux: The mouse wheel was not working in the thumbnail list in the Control Points, Mask and Crop tab.