Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

Comments
Over a period of several years, Joost Nieuwenhuijse has developed and refined PTGui
to make it what it is today:—a stable, reliable product with very good image quality and
enough features to keep most photographers happy. It will not yet help you create virtual
tours, but it allows you to save settings to a template so that you can batch process
subsequent images.
PTGui is wonderfully accommodating, making it easy to create high-res composite
images or panoramas without compelling you to buy a specialized “pano head” for the
tripod. If alignment is not quite up to scratch, it tells you so. It also blends the final
image so that any inconsistencies are seamlessly smoothed. Well documented and supported
by vigorous ongoing development, for the keen photographer PTGui is one of
the most rewarding products to use among all those discussed in this book.
Version: PTGui Pro 7.8 (2008)
OS: Windows 98, XP, and Vista; Mac OS X 10.4 and up
RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: Inputs JPEG, BMP, PNG, and TIFF; outputs BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF,
VRML, PSD (layers or merged), iMove PAN, and IVR
Price level: (PTGui) approx. $100, (PTGui Pro) approx. $225
Address: New House Internet Services B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands
www.ptgui.com
Pure Starter Toolkit
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Vendor: ImmerVision
Purpose: A toolkit that has everything to get you started in panoramic image publishing
Description
Pure Starter Toolkit has all the basic tools you need for editing and publishing panoramic
images. It has five modules:
■ Panorama Image Extractor, which extracts panoramic images created in formats
such as IMP, ImmerVision IVP, and QTVR JPEG.
■ Panorama FileMaker, which generates IVP and QTVR file formats from images in
cubical, cylindrical, or spherical formats.
■ Lensflare Creator, which creates lensflare effects for enhancing panoramas created
with Panorama FileMaker.
■ Package Maker, which creates convenient IVP file bundles for easy publishing.
■ Package Crypter, which encrypts IVP file packages with security codes.