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 any conventional camera as well as fisheye lenses PRO
  • Recognition of more than 2830 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 1250 RAW formats
  • Import/export of HDR image formats – OpenEXR, HDR, JXL (JPEG-XL), 32-bit TIFF PRO
  • Poster printing function


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.
  • RAW Import extended and improved:
    • The number of supported RAW variants has been expanded by over 50 to currently more than 1250 RAW formats.
    • Improved quality in many cases when importing RAW images
    • Completely reworked and enhanced highlight reconstruction, which can reveal more details in bright/overexposed areas — at the same time, the occasional issue with pink color artifacts has been resolved.
    • Fixed an issue with artifacts at the edges of some Fuji cameras.
  • 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.
  • The camera database has been expanded by about 80 to now include more than 2830 cameras.
  • For better image alignment: Metadata recognition expanded to support the latest DJI drones.
  • Improved OpenEXR import. Fixed issues with some file variants.
  • PanoramaStudio Viewer: Updated for latest browser versions, API interface expanded.
  • Several dozen optimizations and minor bug fixes.