Panorama Tools

PanoTools consists of the following components:[4]

PTEditor

Java interactive panorama editor.

PTPicker

Java front end to panorama stitcher and other tools. It provides a graphical interface for feature point selection and position optimization.

PTCrypt

Java tool for scrambling pictures intended to be viewed on-line with PTViewer.

PTStitcher

Panorama stitching tool which remaps, adjusts and combines arbitrary images to panoramic views.

PTOptimizer^†

Optimizes positions and sizes of images using control-point data.

PTStereo

Creates 3-dimensional objects from 2 or more stereoscopic images.

PTInterpolate

Physically valid true view interpolator. Given two images of the same scene taken from different positions, this tool creates views from any intermediate position.

PTMorpher

Morphing tool.

PTAverage

Averages images to reduce noise and enhance density.

PTStripe

Combines images into movie-stripes for viewing in object-viewers (PTMovie extension to PTViewer).

PanoTools Plugins

Photoshop, GraphicConverter and GIMP plug-ins for image correction and remapping. Also compatible to many other programs that can use Photoshop plug-ins.

pano12 library^†

The underlying panorama library, currently used by several different panorama front-ends and command line programs.

pano13 library^†

Current version of the library. No longer compatible with programs for which no source code is available.

^†Open source.

In 2006 the functionality of PTstitcher was reproduced by the developers of Panorama Tools. Its functionality was broken into several program, in an attempt to modularize it:

PTmender^†

Remaps one image at a time

PTblender^†

Implements the rudimentary colour correction algorithm found in later versions of PTstitcher

PTmasker^†

Computes stitching masks. It implements the ability to increase depth-of-field by stacking images

PTroller^†

Takes a set of images and merges them into a single one

PTcrop^†

Crops an image to its outer rectangle.

PTuncrop^†

Opposite of PTcrop: takes a cropped file and creates an uncropped one.

PTtiff2psd^†

Takes a series of input images and creates a Photoshop PSD file where each input file is a layer.

^†Open source.

To make working with Panorama Tools easier and to add functionality, many interactive, graphical front-ends to Panorama Tools have been developed, both open source (e.g. Hugin) and commercial (e.g. PTgui and PTMac), along with a variety of other companion applications (e.g. smartblend and enblend), which in many cases make interacting directly with the programs in the original Panorama Tools toolset unnecessary.