- PTMac has been discontinued
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Developer
Kekus Digital, LLC
PTMac is a simplified front end for creating panoramas using Panorama Tools. The user is taken through the panorama creation process one step at a time hiding the scripting language required by Panorama Tools. While the interface is simplified, the user still has total control over the process giving the most accurate results available. Users can make 360 x 180 degree panoramas, cylindrical and rectilinear panoramas from nearly any lens type including fisheye. Panoramas can be created from single or multiple rows of images. Supported input image formats include TIFF, PICT, JPEG, and PNG. The
What's New
Version 4.1:
- Bugfix: Double clicking on the warped image thumbnail to open the Panorama Editor no longer re-arranges the images.
- Bugfix: The "Save" option is enabled after updating the panorama using the numerical transform function and deleting control points via the control points table.
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| Downloads:17,915 |
| Version Downloads:7,011 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Image Editing |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:25 Jul 2006 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / OS X |
| Price: $59.00 |
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PTMac is a simplified front end for creating panoramas using Panorama Tools. The user is taken through the panorama creation process one step at a time hiding the scripting language required by Panorama Tools. While the interface is simplified, the user still has total control over the process giving the most accurate results available. Users can make 360 x 180 degree panoramas, cylindrical and rectilinear panoramas from nearly any lens type including fisheye. Panoramas can be created from single or multiple rows of images. Supported input image formats include TIFF, PICT, JPEG, and PNG. The finished panorama can be saved in any of the input file types plus Quicktime cylindrical and cubic, multi layer Photoshop (one layer per input image) for easy editing in Photoshop and multi-image masked TIFF for editing in MacGimp. Color and brightness differences between the images can be automatically minimized with the check of a box as well as lens distortions common in wide angle lenses. Quicktime cylindrical and cubic panoramas can be made directly in PTMac.
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• A window called "Panorama Editor" gets its title bar stuck under the menu bar. This makes it impossible to drag it anywhere else.
• Some scrollbar handles have the wrong size (i.e. always minimum size, not proportional to the amount the window shows), giving a wrong impression of the full size image behind the window.
* Scrolling using the mouse's scroll wheel does not work (e.g. in the Source Images view)
• When auto-finding control points, it creates some temp files in my original picture's folder. that's simply not the right way to do it (there are official OS-provided temp folders for this kind of business!) - what if that folder is write-protected?
• Several annoyances with the Control Points editor:
•• The list does not show a vertial scroll bar when it should.
•• When selecting one point in the list, the actual points in the two pics are not shown in the zoomed views, making it hard to verify the points. Plus, there seems to be no way to hide the colored markers, making it again hard to verify the points.
Functionally, I am sure that this app is doing a good job. But the UI is a pain in many aspects. I'll keep looking for an app with a better working UI.
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You have to install mono (warning- the intel-native build is missing libraries) if you want to use autopano...and you need to run the included applescripts to "package" autopano (and enblend, which is highly recommended) into hugin.
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PTMac also has two preview options. You can use the panorama editor window for a rough preview and to edit windows or you create an interactive QTVR for previewing.
Hugin gives a link to download the very same engine, for free (autopano-sift)- and it is seamlessly integrated into Hugin. It can create the control points and arrange the images automatically just like PTMac.
PTMac's developer said: "PTMac also has two preview options. You can use the panorama editor window for a rough preview and to edit windows or you create an interactive QTVR for previewing. "
Hugin also provides a preview window that (almost instantly) provides a preview; you can set it to update automatically or manually. So you don't get an "interactive" QTVR preview; you also don't have to fork over FIFTY BUCKS!
I still say this software is a ripoff given Hugin is free and does -almost- exactly the same thing.
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My replies were to point out your errors claiming that no preview, etc. was available in PTMac. Somehow you seem insulted that I pointed out your mistakes but that is to be expected as a lot of your 'reviews' are off the cuff inaccurate postings to which developers need to clarify.
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I don't do any commercial work, I thought PT was awfully expensive for what I needed.
With a 900mhz G3 Pismo, it hasn't been easy enough or quick enough to get much use out of yet. I'm still hopeful.
I'll try Hugin as well. I'm documenting 40 acres of restoration done on a forest fire site in my copious spare time -- everyone needs a hobby, this turned into a 200 year project.
I've got an awful lot of pictures to deal with.
phip reviewed on 15 Mar 2006
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Iamdorian reviewed on 12 Feb 2006
Anonymous reviewed on 25 Oct 2005
Visit:
www.longfingers.com/download/workflow.html
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I'd love to see it.
Your linked page appears to require enabling both JavaScript and Flash.
Is there a workflow document -- ordinary text and if needed images -- that I can look at without enabling JavaScript and Flash?
I'll see if I can download something but not sure why the high barrier to viewing the workflow.
Anonymous reviewed on 22 May 2005
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The RealViz 3.52 Stitcher version I bought only 7 months ago (and also never used) is not working properly under OSX 10.3.6 (let alone 10.3.7). Upgrading Stitcher - just to get it to work - would cost $200. So I thought perhaps I could gove this a shot. However, I am reticent to shell out $50 to see if this version of the PTMac program works with Panther 10.3.7.
Time to patch up a new version people.
One of the most stable of the (QT)VR programs was VR Worx (older v.2.1), but it didn't do conversions from already stitched wid format files.
SIGH:::VR should be easier than it is...
Anonymous reviewed on 15 Jul 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 22 Jun 2004