Product reviews by GURL
PanoTools
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Updated: 19 Oct 2004 at 15:22 GMT,
by GURL
I think the current version of Pano Tools review on PanoGuide needs a main updates. Panotools should not be seen anymore as a self-contained software but as the main engine for a large family of tools!
Four interfaces:
- PTgui
- PTassembler
- Hugin
- PTmac
Many great "add-on":
- Enblend (sophisticated edges blending)
- Autopano (control points setting)
- PTlens and associated Photoshop Correct filter (FOV, distortion)
- PTviewer (improved)
Many interesting versions of pano12.dll:
- much faster versions
- 16-bit versions
- etc (ask Google about pano12.dll !)
Many tutorials, FAQ and forums
- too many of them again, ask Google
Most of my (amateur) photo work (panoramas and mosaics) now derives from those many tools. For me, the most important one was Max Lyons tutorial: www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr_tutorial.htm because it's a proof Pano Tools not being anymore "an over-kill for simple cylindrical panorama stitching" and the first step to some 100 millions pixels mosaics like those:
www.pbase.com/image/29776279/original
www.afric-impact.org/perso-coldfusion/gurl/Theze-...
www.afric-impact.org/perso-coldfusion/gurl/Pbase_...
[I use:
- PTOptimizer and PTStitcher 2.6.ML12 from Mas Lyons site
- Jim Water pano12.dll (318KB) Version: 2.7.0.6 Date: 2004-10-07 as described there: photocreations.ca/panotools/index.html ]