PanoramaStudio 4 Pro

The All-Around Solution for Panorama Stitching

PanoramaStudio Pro offers numerous additional features in addition to all the functions of the standard version. These include the creation of HDR panoramas with HDR/Tonemapping or Exposure Fusion, support for fisheye lenses, more visualization options, automatic white balance, viewpoint correction and a grid assistant for panoramas consisting of a large number of images.
This version not only saves various image formats but also HDR formats, offers a poster printing function and lets you export interactive 3D panoramas or virtual tours consisting of multiple linked panoramas.
The proven and simple creation of perfect panoramas is extended in this Pro version by a whole range of functions for ambitious users.

Key Features

Panorama Creation

  • Automatic stitching of arbitrary image arrangements into seamless panoramas
  • Automatic correction of exposure mismatches, brightness, vignetting and white balance PRO
  • Full HDR support to create high dynamic range panoramas PRO
  • 15 different projections for visually different visualizations - in addition to the standards also Mercator, Little Planets, Fisheyes, Pannini and transversal projections such as Cassini PRO

Supported Cameras and Lenses

  • Processing of photos from all standard cameras, drones, and smartphones, as well as fisheye lenses PRO
  • Recognition of more than 2900 cameras based on their Exif data
  • Automatic correction of lens distortion

Editing

  • Manual correction of all individual steps, for example with the control point editor, the viewpoint correction PRO or the masking tool
  • Dynamic real-time preview in a 2D or 3D view
  • Numerous non-destructive image processing filters
  • In HDR mode, real-time preview while adjusting the tone mapping and Exposure Fusion parameters PRO
  • Grid assistant for pre-sorting large numbers of input images PRO

Import/Export

  • Export of interactive HTML5 panoramas and virtual tours for local viewing or embedding in websites
  • Import/Export of the most common image formats
  • Direct import of more than 1270 RAW formats
  • Import/Export of HDR image formats – OpenEXR, DNG, HDR, JXL (JPEG-XL), 32-bit TIFF PRO
  • Poster printing support


New in version 4.2 Pro

  • DNG Export
    Panoramas can now be saved as DNG files.
    In addition to standard 16-bit DNG files, the PRO version can export HDR panoramas with 16-bit or 32-bit floating-point color depth.
  • Significantly improved image alignment
    • Image alignment is now significantly more reliable, even in difficult shooting situations.
    • Performance has been greatly improved, especially for very large panoramas consisting of hundreds or thousands of images. Projects with more than 1,000 images, which previously could take several hours to process, are now typically aligned reliably within just a few minutes.
  • Improved HDR image alignment PRO
    The automatic detection and grouping of exposure series has been further improved. In particular, HDR panoramas consisting of exposure series with five or more images are now detected automatically with significantly greater reliability and stitched together without the need for manual post-processing.
  • Enhanced Grid Assistant PRO
    Images prearranged with the Grid Assistant are now aligned even more consistently. In addition, the Grid Assistant now includes a new option for strict overlap constraints. Possible image overlaps can be limited to a narrow range around the predefined overlap, allowing very large panoramas captured in a regular grid—such as those shot with a motorized panoramic head—to be aligned considerably faster and more accurately.
  • Improved performance of interactive panoramas
    The restructured output for the PanoramaStudio Viewer provides a significant performance boost. Average loading times for interactive panoramas have been reduced by about 50%. In most cases, the initial view appears within just a fraction of a second, making the loading process virtually unnoticeable. The same applies to loading additional image data while zooming and panning.
  • Interactive panoramas: JPEGli compression
    Image tiles for interactive panoramas can now optionally be compressed using JPEGli. Google's modern JPEG encoder produces files that are up to 25% smaller while remaining fully compatible with all web browsers, resulting in even faster loading times.
  • Optimized memory management during rendering
    Despite PanoramaStudio's own memory management, rendering extremely large images could exceed the available RAM and virtual memory on some systems. The new version now handles such cases reliably even on systems with limited memory.
  • The program's icons have been redesigned and modernized.
  • RAW import updated
    RAW support has been extended by another 25 camera models, bringing the total to more than 1,270 supported cameras. The optional highlight recovery during RAW import has also been further improved.
  • The camera database now includes more than 2,900 cameras, drones, and smartphones, approximately 70 more than before.
  • Improved support for DJI drones. Additional variants of DJI metadata are now recognized, resulting in more reliable image alignment.
  • Numerous additional optimizations and minor bug fixes.

New in version 4.1 Pro

  • Numerous new projections

    PanoramaStudio now offers a wide range of additional projection types, allowing visually different renderings and impressions to be generated from the same panorama.
    With a total of 15 projection types in the completely renewed projection function of the Pro version, many new possibilities open up.

    Instead of the previous 4 projections, the following up to 15 projections are now available:

    • Perspective (rectilinear)
    • Pannini*
    • Little Planet (stereographic fisheye)
    • Fisheye (equidistant)*
    • Fisheye (orthographic)*
    • Spherical (equirectangular)
    • Miller*
    • Gall (stereographic)*
    • Mercator
    • Cylindrical
    • Transverse spherical (Cassini)*
    • Transverse Miller*
    • Transverse Gall (stereographic)*
    • Transverse Mercator*
    • Transverse cylindrical*
    (*): PRO version
  • Batch Renderer PRO
    The new batch renderer allows automatic rendering of multiple prepared projects in a single run.
  • JPEG-XL (JXL) as an additional new image format.
    The relatively new JPEG-XL or JXL is nearly ideal for panoramas.
    Unlike classic JPEG, there are no size limits for JXL images.
    It supports both 8- and 16-bit color depths for standard images, as well as 16- and 32-bit float for HDR images.
    Compression can be either lossy or lossless. The lossy method results in smaller files with better image quality than traditional JPEGs. The lossless method produces completely uncompressed files that are usually smaller than even the best TIFF or PNG compression methods.
  • Improved "adaptive blending". While the adaptive mode previously still had occasional problems with noticeable brightness transitions in formats with very narrow aspect ratios and large differences in brightness, these are now also adjusted reliably and completely seamlessly.
  • Improved OpenEXR import. Fixed issues with some file variants.