PTGui comes in two versions: PTGui and PTGui Pro. The main difference between the two versions is
support for
HDR stitching,
viewpoint correction and
vignetting, exposure and white balance correction
in PTGui Pro. The table below shows a detailed list of features:
Features
| PTGui | PTGui Pro |
|---|
| Automatic stitching: create panoramas with just a few mouse clicks |
YES | YES |
| Manual mode: full control over the final result |
YES | YES |
| Live preview: instantly see the effect of different settings, without the need to stitch first |
YES | YES |
| Multi row panoramas: images can be stacked both horizontally and vertically |
YES | YES |
| Stitch rotated and tilted images |
YES | YES |
| Create HUGE panoramas: stitch hundreds of images into a gigapixel panorama |
YES | YES |
| Support for jpeg, tiff and png source images |
YES | YES |
| Create panoramas in jpeg, tiff or Photoshop format |
YES | YES |
| Photoshop large document (.psb) support |
YES | YES |
| Layered Photoshop output, ideal for retouching |
YES | YES |
| Full support for 16 bit images, for the best image quality |
YES | YES |
| Panorama editor: interactive adjustment of the panorama perspective |
YES | YES |
| Create templates with frequently used settings |
YES | YES |
| QTVR ouput: directly create a QTVR panorama in PTGui, or convert an existing panorama into QTVR format |
YES | YES |
| Batch stitcher: prepare any number of panoramas and stitch them later without user intervention. |
YES | YES |
| Support for multiple processors / multiple core computers |
YES | YES |
| Stitch and blend HDR source images into an HDR panorama |
- | YES |
| Stitch and blend bracketed LDR source images into an HDR panorama |
- | YES |
| Calculate camera response curve from bracketed LDR source images |
- | YES |
| Built in tone mapper |
- | YES |
| Support for OpenEXR (.exr) and HDR Radiance (.hdr) source images |
- | YES |
| Blend Priority parameter (useful for blending the nadir image in a spherical panorama) |
- | YES |
| Viewpoint correction |
- | YES |
| Vignetting, exposure and white balance correction |
- | YES |
| Global adjustment of exposure and white balance |
- | YES |
| Exposure Fusion |
- | YES |
PTGui runs on Microsoft Windows (Windows 2000, 2003, XP or Vista) and Apple Mac (OSX 10.4 or later). At least 1 GB free disk space (for temporary files)
is recommended. PTGui has been optimized for stitching large panoramas; despite the amounts of data involved with photo stitching,
PTGui runs fine with only 256 MB of RAM.
