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Does PTGui Pro provide anything that an occasional Panorama shooter really needs?

Currently it's $99 for PTGui and $186 for PTGui Pro.

Thanks

Here is the comparison table. It's hard to know what your needs are and perhaps Photomerge in Photoshop is enough for occasional needs:
https://www.ptgui.com/features.html

I am a PTGUI Pro user but I can't really answer your question because I don't know if all of the things I have done with it can be done with the non pro version.

Thanks E.J. I know you use PTGui I dud the know which version.

I’ll go with the simpler PTGui as I’m not likely to get into the higher functionally of the Pro version.

I’ve tried a PS Photomerge and didn’t have a great deal of success with it.

MND wrote:Thanks E.J. I know you use PTGui I dud the know which version.

I’ll go with the simpler PTGui as I’m not likely to get into the higher functionally of the Pro version.

I’ve tried a PS Photomerge and didn’t have a great deal of success with it.

I've found that none of these tools are perfect for every job.  About 50% of the time, Photomerge, especially in spherical projection mode, does the trick.  PTGUI is successful on about 80% of the cases I have thrown at it but often I need to go to some of the more obscure projection methods.  PTGUI presents you with three primary stitching projection methods but in a drop down next to them are a bunch more and I find Mercator and Vedutismo are often successful on stitches that Photoshop struggles with.  PTGUI also lets you manually do it by selecting stitching points by hand - that's my last resort.  Before going that route I also try an older program called PanoramaFactory and sometimes it handles the jobs that neither PS or PTGUI does.  If none of those three work I go back to PTGUI and do it manually by point selection - it's slow and tedious but it can usually handle the job when all others fail.  If that doesn't work, I punt!

Below is a link with all of the projection methods and what they do:
https://www.ptgui.com/man/projections.html

E.J., may I ask why you chose PTGui Pro over Autopano Giga, or did you not compare them? I used to use Autopano Pro when I was using the Nikon D2x (12 MP). I'm thinking about going back to them, but wondered why you chose PTGui Pro.

Bill Chambers wrote:E.J., may I ask why you chose PTGui Pro over Autopano Giga, or did you not compare them?  I used to use Autopano Pro when I was using the Nikon D2x (12 MP).  I'm thinking about going back to them, but wondered why you chose PTGui Pro.

Basically I had a client that liked it and turned me onto it.  Before that I was using either Photomerge or PanoramaFactory.

E.J. Peiker wrote:

Bill Chambers wrote:E.J., may I ask why you chose PTGui Pro over Autopano Giga, or did you not compare them?  I used to use Autopano Pro when I was using the Nikon D2x (12 MP).  I'm thinking about going back to them, but wondered why you chose PTGui Pro.

Basically I had a client that liked it and turned me onto it.  Before that I was using either Photomerge or PanoramaFactory.

Thank you.