Portable PanoramaStudio Pro 4.0.9.419
PanoramaStudio Portable creates seamless 360 degree and wide angle panoramic images. It stitches your photos to huge panoramic images within minutes. This program combines simple creation of perfect panoramic images within a few steps with ambitious postprocessing features for advanced users. PanoramaStudio Portable creates single-row and multi-row panoramas of up to full spherical 360×180 degree panoramas. It is the complete solution for the creation of panoramic images. Besides the easy and established creation of panoramas PanoramaStudio Portable offers now also the option to stitch arbitrary arranged images to panoramas. This allows huge panoramas, even beyond the gigapixel limit.
Main features:
- Seamlessly stitch together a series of images into a flat or 360-degree panorama
- Seamless gluing of multi-level images
- Support for creating spherical panoramas 360×180
- Automatic alignment and blending of a series of images
- Fully 16-bit working environment for 16-bit images
- Detection of more than 1200 digital cameras using EXIF information
- Automatic vignetting correction
- Adjusting the exposure of internal/imported images
- Automatic panorama exposure correction
- Manual post-processing settings for all panorama creation steps
- Control Point Editor
- Export to interactive Java and Flash panoramas
- Exporting a panorama as a screen saver or executable file
- Save to a variety of graphics files including JPG, TIFF, PSD, BMP, PNG, PCX, RAS and TGA
- Import images in JPG, TIFF, PSD, BMP, PNG, PCX, RAS, IFF and TGA formats
- Importing existing panoramic images for further processing
- Import about 300 RAW formats, including DNG, CRW, NEF, CR2, RAW, MRW, DCR, ORF, ARW, PEF, etc.
- Poster printing function
- Supports cylindrical, spherical and perspective panorama design
- Editing “hot spots” for Java and Flash panoramas to create virtual tours
- Using filters for the created panorama (clarity, color balance, brightness and contrast, etc.)
- Export individual panorama images as a layered PSD file or multi-page TIFF file
What’s NEW in Version 4:
With this new major release, the standard and Pro versions have been significantly enhanced. The standard version now includes most of the functions of the previous Pro version. The new Pro version, on the other hand, now offers full HDR support and more.
Both versions have received numerous improvements and new functions. See a comparison on the Features page.
- Full HDR Support PRO
Exposure brackets or HDR input images can be processed to create HDR panoramas – either using HDR / Tonemapping or Exposure Fusion. - Improved quality. All panoramas are now processed internally in an HDR color space (standard and Pro version).
- Loading and saving of HDR image formats such as OpenEXR, Radiance HDR and 32bit Tiffs. PRO
- The new Renderer provides a significant increase in performance – it is typically around 2x to 3x faster than before.
- There are even greater performance gains in some cases with “adaptive blending” (anti-ghost) and with large gigapixel panoramas.
- Improved adaptive blending. The adaptive blending, which determines optimum seams between the input images to avoid ghosting in dynamic scenes and achieve seamless transitions, now delivers better results in many cases and is also significantly faster.
- New real-time preview. Previously, the preview just showed the images in an overlapping manner. Two new modes have been added at this point, linear blending and multi-band blending, with the latter already being very close to the final image. All these modes show a preview of the panorama in real-time in either a 2D or 3D view.
- New non-destructive image processing filters.
To refine and improve the appearance of the panorama directly in PanoramaStudio a range of filters are available in the categories HDR/Tone Mapping PRO, Light & Color, Tone Curve and Color Balance.
All these filters are non-destructive, meaning that they do not change the underlying image and can still be adjusted until the panorama is exported. - Configuration of the HDR / Tonemapping parameters and basic image processing filters along with the real-time preview is possible before as well as after the rendering. PRO
- Redesigned image export.
The color depth and color space of the images can still be configured when they are saved. This allows for example that panoramas can be exported in a higher color depth and with a larger color space than the individual input images. - The RAW import is now up to date again and includes an additional function for reconstructing highlights.
- Exporting large (gigapixel) panoramas as interactive panoramas is now much faster.
- The new version of the PanoramaStudio Viewer:
- offers more options for the Autoplay (relative speed, tilting back to initial level)
- can play virtual tours as a animated slide show
- includes improved hotspot positioning
- provides an optional Close button
- has an improved performance
- has been adapted to current browsers
- … and many more small improvements.
Release Notes:
- Substantial improvements for the import of DNG files.
- The average performance has almost doubled.
- Improved quality in the development of the raw data.
- More supported compression methods (e.g. JPEG-XL).
- Optimization of the new renderer:
- Improved quality due to smoother brightness transitions, fewer artifacts.
- Fixed occasional occurrence of artifacts on hard contrasts and in the area of zenith/nadir interpolation.
- Sporadic errors in the preview under macOS corrected.
- Better adaptation of the user interface to multi-monitor systems with different scaling (Windows version).
- TIFF import/export updated and improved.
- Bug fixes. Including:
- Export of interactive HTML5 panoramas: Fixed occasional problems with the export of a tour gallery and with the integration of the radar or compass view.
- Fixed occasional errors when loading saved presets for interactive panoramas.
- Command line parameter ‘Auto-Quit’ did not work correctly.
- Fixed a rare bug while loading project files.
