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About
Panorama Tools was originally created by Professor Helmut Dersch of theUniversity of Applied Sciences Furtwangen.
News 13th May 2013
Sourceforge have moved all the repositories! If you have libpano13 checkedout via Mercurial, you need to switch to the new path since the old repositoryis now read-only.
The repositories for the other projects (Panotools::Script, GIMP plugin,Photoshop filters, and MPRemap) have now switched from Subversion to Mercurial,so you will need to check these out again.
News 2nd May 2011
libpano13-2.9.18 released. libpano13 is the PanoToolslibrary, this release adds the Thoby projection and bugfixes.
News 11th February 2011
Switch to Mercurial. libpano13 sourcecode development hasmoved from SVN (Subversion) to HG (Mercurial), see below for instructions tofetch the current development code.
News 7th February 2011
libpano13-2.9.18_beta1 released. libpano13 is the PanoToolslibrary, this release adds the Thoby projection and is required to test recentHugin snapshots.
News 11th September 2010
Google Summer of Code 2010 completed. All students havecompleted successfully, Tomasz Meger has added a test suite to libpano13.
News 10th September 2010
libpano13-2.9.17 released. libpano13 is the PanoToolslibrary, this release adds a new output projection, mosaic mode, cleanups andbugfixes.
News 24th May 2009
libpano13-2.9.14 released. libpano13 is the PanoToolslibrary, this release adds a number of new input and output projections, a newcommand-line tool, documentation, cleanups and bugfixes.
News 19th March 2009
hugin/panotools has been accepted again as a mentoring organisation for the2009 Summer of Code. If you are a full time student and would like to apply fora paid summer internship with Google and mentored by our team, then you need toget involved now, see: We want youand Summer of Codeideas.
News 20th March 2008
If you are a full time student and would like to apply for a paid summerinternship with Google and mentored by our team, then you need to get involvednow to develop the project brief before the application deadline: March 31 5:00PM PDT. More details here: panotools/huginGoogle Summer of Code 2008
News 12th April 2007
Five google Summer of Code students have been accepted. The following projects are scheduled forcompletion by August 31 2007:
- Pedro Alonso from Spain, mentored by Herbert Bay from Switzerland,will develop a new algorithm to identify better control points, so critical to the stitching process
- Ippei Ukai from Japan currently in Scotland, mentored by Yuval Levy from Israel currently in Canada, will produce a new user interface to make thisversatile tools even easier to use on multiple platforms(Windows/Mac/Linux/Unix)
- Jing Jin from USA, mentored by Pablo d'Angelo from Germany, will develop a robust blending algorithm to eliminate ghosting in HDR panoramas to widen therange of applications for the HDR technique beyond the perfectly stillscenes
- Mohammad Shahiduzzaman from Bangladesh, mentored by John Cupitt from UK, will look at the current bottleneck in panorama rendering to enable efficientprocessing of very large images
- Leon Monctezuma from Mexico, mentored by Aldo Hoeben from The Netherlands, will build on the community effort started last year to produce a modern,native, universal VR viewer to support the widest variety of panorama formatson multiple platforms
News 15th March 2007
Hugin and panotools are participating in google Summer of Code 2007, wherestudents are paid by Google to work on hugin and/or panotools and mentored byexperts in the field.
Some suitable projects are listed on the panotools wiki SoC 2007 projectspage.
The deadline for student applications is 24th March 2007. Applicationdetails can be found on the Google SoC 2007 page onthe wiki.
News 12th July 2006
Mailing lists
The old PanoTools Userlist has been abandoned by most of the regular contributors due tomanagement issues. The recommended mailing list for support is now the PanoToolsNG yahoolist.
To clarify the situation, these are now the relevant lists for discussionof Panotools and related software:
- PanoToolsNG
- Questions and answers about panorama photography and usage of the various tools.
- panotools-devel
- For questions and discussion regarding compiling the source and developing it further.
- Panotools-List
- For discussion of the management issues of the PanoToolsNG group and thewiki.
- Hugin PTX
- For discussion of the Hugin panorama stitcher and related tools.
Switch from CVS to Subversion to Mercurial
All the panotools projects have now switched to Mercurial (HG). Any CVS orSubversion (SVN) repositories you may have are out-of-date.
What's here?
- PToptimizer, a utility for optimising control points.
- panoinfo a utility for querying the library version.
- PTmender a replacement for PTStitcher.
- PTblender implements just the colour and brightness correction of PTmender.
- PTtiff2psd Converts a set of TIFF files into a PSD file.
- PTuncrop Converts 'cropped TIFF' files into 'normal' TIFF files.
Software using the Panorama Tools library
Note that most of these software packages come supplied with a pre-compiledversion of the library and everything else needed to stitch photographs- You probably don't need to download anything from here.
- Hugin is an Open Sourcecross-platform GUI for Panorama Tools. Supported platforms are Linux, Windowsand OS X.
- The original PanoramaTools contains a number of tools that use the pano12 library, notablyptpicker, pteditor, PTOptimizer andPTStitcher. Panorama Tools is available for Windows, Mac classic andLinux platforms.
- PTGui is a graphical Panorama Toolsfront-end for Windows platforms.
- PTAssembler is aWindows helper program for Panorama Tools.
- PTMac is a front end for creatingpanoramas using Panorama Tools. PTMac is available for Mac OS X and OS 8.6 to9.x.
- ControlPoints isa Windows application that allows you to select control points.
- PanoPoints is an OpenSource graphical front-end control point picker for Linux systems.
- PanoWizard is a freewarefrontend for autopano and panorama-tools.
Important information
![Panorama Tools For Mac Panorama Tools For Mac](/uploads/1/2/6/5/126579499/237141525.jpg)
There may or may not be US patents covering stitching of fisheyephotographs, consequently the sourcecode of this library has an artificiallimit that prevents the use of fisheye images with a field of view greater than160°.
Panorama Tools For Macbook Pro
All files available on this site are licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Most front ends for Panorama Tools use the PTStitcher tool to dothe actual stitching, this has no available source-code, so you may need to download PTStitcherseparately or use the included PTmender replacement forPTStitcher which is still under development. Note that hugin contains a drop-in Open Sourcereplacement for PTStitcher called nona.
Binary versions
Hugin, the GUI stitching front-end, usually ships with a recent version ofthe library and command-line tools. So just downloadhugin to get hold of panotools and start stitching.
A Windows installer containing a recent version of the library, thecommand-line tools and the Photoshop plugins is available at Jim Watters' site
An OS X bundle containing the library is available here.
There will be occasional binary versions available from Sourceforgefile downloads. Though if you want the very latest version, youmay have to compile from source.
Free Panorama Tool
Getting the code
If you are running Windows you need to installa Mecurial client before downloading the source code - Linux userswill probably have Mercurial installed already.
Basic instructions for downloading the pano13 library source code are:
Compiling the library
Instructions can be found in the source, these instructions may beout-of-date for your platform, feel free to contribute updated versions.
Mailing lists and support
Questions and answers about usage of the various tools and front-ends belongon the PanoToolsNGmailing-list, you might want to consult the PanoTools wikibefore posting.
There is a panotools-develmailing list for questions regarding compiling the source and developing itfurther.
Anyone subscribing to 'panotools-devel' should also subscribe to panotools-cvsto receive a copy of each sourcecode SVN commit.
The PanoTools wiki aims to be thedefinitive reference for Panorama Tools. It contains a lot of usagedocumentation for the tools hosted here on sourceforge.
The Launchpad tracker hasour bug tracking database. If you find a bug in libpano13, you can report itthere.
Links
IQTVRA have a comprehensive set of panoramic imagerelated links
Last updated 13th May 2013 - Bruno Postle
- 4Photoshop
Basic Library
Most software listed on this page will need the pano12.dll library to work. You will find this bundled with the Panorama tools
Stitching Software
- Panorama_tools is a high quality Open Source panorama stitching software package.
- Hugin (free, Open Source GUI)
- VolumePhoto SE (commercial)
- PTAssembler (shareware)
- PTGUI (shareware)
- Autostitch (currently free, fully functional demo) - powerful and fast!
- PanoramaStudio (shareware)
- PhotoVISTA Creates panoramas and 360°'s. Commercial. Available for Windows and Mac.
- 3DVista Stitcher (commercial) Supports donut (oneshot) images
Helpers
- Autopano automatically identifies control points. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin, PTAssembler, PTGUI
- Enblend overlays images so to make the seam invisible. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin and PTGUI
- Enblend Front End simplifies the use of Enblend
- Enfuse combines multiple exposure bracketed images.
- APClean is a program that can be used to quickly remove wrong control points (sometimes created by Autopano) from a PTGui project file. It can also be used to see which image pairs are linked by control points.
- PanoCube converts equirectangular (360°x180°) panos to QuickTime cubic movies. Freeware (Windows) and more featured shareware (Windows, Linux) versions.
- PanoLink links QuickTime cubic movies into virtual tours.
- Pano2QTVR is a new and very promising Windows freeware project to convert equirectangular (360°x180°) panos to QuickTime cubic movies and link them together to virtual tours. Includes Hotspot Editor.
- SmartBlend overlays images so to make the seam invisible. Works on the command line or as a plug-in for Hugin and PTGUI. Other than enblend SmartBlend attempts to remove parallax and similar errors from seams.
Photoshop
Plug-ins
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/2/6/5/126579499/935793961.jpg)
- The Panorama Tools Plugins are part of the original Panorama tools by Helmut Dersch recently made 16 bit compliant and actionable by Thomas Niemann
- PTLens free lens distorsion correction.
Actions
- Contrast Masking Actions lightens shadows and darkens highlights.
- Contrast Blending Actions combine a bracketed series of images to extend dynamic range.
Plugins for the Gimp
The Gimp is a sophisticated image editor similar to Photoshop.There are several panoramic photography related gimp plugins that can be used to manipulate panoramas.
Viewers
- Syborg Rooms can connect multiple panoramas and enrich the expierence with videos, images and text. Based on Flash. It's free.
- PTViewer Original panotools viewer. Recent versions are 3.1.2 from Helmut Dersch (capable of adaptive dynamic range display) and 2.7L2 from Fulvio Senore with better interpolator and numerous additions to the original Dersch version 2.5
- FSPViewer: A fast viewer for local, high resolution panoramic images.
- SPi-V Hardware accelerated full screen viewer based on Shockwave 3D with very smooth movement and possibilities for special effects.
- panoglview: an open source hardware accelerated viewer for equirectangular panoramas.
- FlashVR Flash based viewer, hot spot and menu functions.
- 360DOF Flash 360dof's Flash based viewer.
- Destry Hines Simple pano viewer, applet based.
- IBM Hotmedia Only works with Hotmedia Panos
- Panorado A full-featured image viewer/browser supporting panoramas (JPEG & QTVR)
- DevalVR Multipurpose panoramic viewer, with local player version and browser plugin for IE and Netscape/Firefox/Opera browsers (JPEG & QTVR)
can somebody please link to other tools?
Virtual Tour Software
- Syborg Rooms - Now available for free
- The Panorama Factory - Decent bang for the buck
- 360 Degrees of Freedom - Overpriced for what you get
- EasyPano Tourweaver - Expensive, but nice
- PanoLink - Basic linking for QuickTime MOV files. Technically a 'helper' but it does much more.
- Pano2QTVR - Another, easier to use, linking package for Quicktime MOV files. Technically a 'helper' but it does much more.
- Imatronics Panorama Express - Supports stock and custom donut images (oneshot lenses) and spherical images.
- 3D Vista - Another easy to use tour creater, but with less options. Also supports donuts.
- JATC - Just Another TourCreator. Creating tours for SPi-V and PurePlayer. Freeware.
Non-Panoramic use
- PTShiftchromatic aberration determination
- PTLens lens distortion correction
- Extended Depth-Of-Field creats masked layers for a focus-bracketed series of images. From Rik Littlefield
- GIMP: Save Layers in seperate files. Little Helper for Multilayer TIFF. If you are using multilayer tiff with GIMP for optimizing blending, you might need this script for saving every layer to a seperate file. Download continous_save.zip
Printing
- QImage is a commercial tool for printing up to 100.000 pixels wide images on roll paper even across paper size limitations (on some printers)
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