Software Update: PTGui 12.9

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. Using a stack of photos as input, the program can figure out how to put them side by side on both macOS and Windows computers. 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 12.9:

• Updated LibRaw, some new cameras supported†
• The Linux version now also supports using a calibrated monitor. The ICC profile for the monitor must be configured in Options – General – Monitor Color Profile. The Windows and macOS versions already supported calibrated displays through the operating system’s display color settings.
• Updated traditional Chinese translation (謝謝 Allen Chen!).
• Fixed: Windows: when using multiple monitors with different color profiles, the colors were not updated when dragging a window between different monitors.
• Fixed: File – Append Project could cause PTGui to crash, or show ‘Assertion Failed’ errors.
• Fixed: Windows: if individual layers were output (as separate files, not a layered Photoshop file), PTGui would abort with an error if there were more than 500 source images. The maximum has been raised to 8150.
• Fixed: certain .dng files would be loaded in the wrong orientation.
• Added workaround for faulty Mavic 3 EXIF ​​data.
• Fixed: stitching errors (misalignments) could occur at the -180 / +180 degree boundary.
• Fixed: PTGui could crash when clicking the filter dropdown list in the Control Points editor if the project contained many hundreds of source images.