Cette nouvelle version RC corrige quelques bugs et améliore le support des cartes graphiques (voir le journal des modifications ci-dessous, en anglais).

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6.2 RC2.

Journal des modifications

Revamped 360° blending

With engine 2.6.1, we introduced a new generic 360° blender that had some issues with soft rendering and uses more memory. We improved all parts : sharp rendering, less memory used but still with better blending over 360° edges compared to 2.6.0 engine.

New compatibility mode in GPU support

We introduced a compatibility mode in GPU support so that even fairly old GPU can use this mode in Autopano Pro. The GPU check has also beeing improved to check for both mode.

Fixes :

- 0000602: [Unclassified] Crash when using PtGui import – resolved.
- 0001147: [Cortex ( rendu )] HDR output issue (grey in burned zone) – resolved.
- 0001142: [Cortex ( rendu )] Softness issue in rendering (360° case) – resolved.
- 0001140: [Cortex ( rendu )] Not enough memory for rendering one line (360° case) – resolved.
- 0001148: [Cortex ( rendu )] Force Mercator and auto-crop conflit – resolved.
- 0000998: [Editor] MAC : some issue with a given GPU – resolved.
- 0001072: [UI behavior] Add GPU compatibilty mode in global settings – resolved.
- 0001125: [Editor] GPU compatibility mode – resolved.
- 0001133: [Image I/O] Image blurred when using haze on small size image – resolved.
- 0001138: [Cortex ( rendu )] Blending on zenith – closed.

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6.1 RC1 .

Corrections de bugs (en anglais) :

- 0000597: [Cortex ( rendu )] Blending issue around 360° – resolved.
- 0000934: [Performance] GPU black image onATI X1400 – resolved.
- 0001044: [Cortex ( rendu )] Line 347 error – resolved.
- 0001085: [Cortex ( rendu )] Check blending case – resolved.
- 0001087: [UI behavior] Reload button crash – resolved.
- 0001089: [Cortex ( rendu )] Antighost edge choice – resolved.
- 0001094: [Cortex ( rendu )] Interpolation issues – resolved.
- 0001095: [Editor] Strange alexandroid in the editor only – resolved.

La version 2.6 d’Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga est disponible ! (mise à jour gratuite)

Meilleur assemblage des images, meilleures couleurs, meilleure fusion d’exposition et des plugins pour des logiciels tiers… découvrez les nombreuses améliorations apportées par cette version :

> Quoi de neuf dans Autopano Pro 2.6

> Quoi de neuf dans Autopano Giga 2.6

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6.

Journal des principales modifications (en anglais)

This is a new stable version with major improvements

Quality and speed improvements

• New generation of Neurone ( optimizer engine ) with a lot of improvement or new features :
  • Speed of fisheye stitching : at least 300% speedup, but it can be 10x too on big project
  • Improvement in quality by adding support for 2nd and 3rd order distortion, as well as sensor offset
• Better blending engine
  • This raise really the results of exposure fusion rendering
  • Blue skies are better blended together
• Focal length priority in the rendering engine
  • You can now choose between anti-ghost or focal priority
• Improved Gigapan and Papywizard plugins
  • In many cases, it gives better results for images without any control points

Improved UI

• Better Move mode that allows you to change global layout of the panoram. Manual adjustement of individual images is also smoother
• Improved Layer Editor with selectable columns to display just what you want
• Reload button in Layer Editor so you can paint transparency in any photo software and have a quick refresh to see the result live in the editor
• APG only : exposure fusion preview with a real rendering done as a preview. This allow super easy color accurate parameters adjustment on exposure fusion. It also give a quick preview of the anti-ghost decision.

Integration into external software

• Google Picassa 3 : Windows and Mac
• Autopano Giga only : Adobe Lightroom 3.X : Windows and Mac
• Autopano Giga only : Adobe Bridge CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5 : Windows and Mac
• Autopano Giga only : Apple Aperture 3.X : Mac only

Fixes ( compared to Release Candidate 2 ) :

- 0001077: [Performance] Latest cameras support – resolved.

- 0001038: [Synapse ( detection )] Stitching issue on circular fisheye – resolved.

- 0001037: [UI behavior] Nothing happens when clicking on buttons (Mac) – resolved.

- 0001065: [Editor] Keys doesn’t work in layer mode – resolved.

- 0001026: [Image I/O] EXIF wrongly decoded – resolved.

- 0001034: [Shell Integration] Bridge export to APG opens multiple instances of APG – resolved.

- 0001035: [Shell Integration] Aperture export to APG opens multiple instance of APG – resolved.

- 0001036: [Shell Integration] Lightroom export to APG doesn’t create group after the first one – resolved.

- améliorer l’assemblage dans des zones précises en ajoutant des points de contrôle manuels
- supprimer de mauvais liens entre les images

Utiliser l’éditeur de points de contrôle est plutôt facile et vous permet de venir à bout des cas d’assemblage les plus difficiles.

Voici 3 tutoriels vidéo qui présentent en détail l’éditeur de points de contrôle d’Autopano :

- le premier présente l’interface et le flux de travail entre l’éditeur de points de contrôle et l’éditeur de panoramas lorsque l’éditeur de points de contrôle est actif
- la deuxième vidéo décrit comment améliorer l’assemblage en modifiant les points de contrôles d’Autopano
- le troisième didacticiel est basé sur un cas difficile où toutes les images ont des similarités et où Autopano a ajouté de trop nombreux liens entre elles. Supprimer les mauvais liens et ajouter de nouveaux points de contrôle manuellement permet d’obtenir un assemblage parfait.

Assez parlé, voici les vidéos !

1^ère leçon : Présentation de l’éditeur de points de contrôle

2^è leçon : Utiliser l’éditeur de points de contrôle dans Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga

3^è leçon : Utilisation avancée de l’éditeur de points de contrôle

Vous aimez ces vidéos ? Abonnez-vous gratuitement à notre chaîne Youtube pour être notifié de toutes les prochaines leçons vidéo.

Cette vidéo de 3 minutes présente l’interface de l’application et ses principales fonctionnalités. Vous pouvez la regarder sur le mini-site d’ Autopano Pro, sur Youtube ou bien ci-dessous. Jetez aussi un œil à la nouvelle Chaîne Youtube de Kolor, où vous trouverez des didacticiels sur Autopano Pro ainsi que sur les autres logiciels de Kolor.

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6 beta 4.

Si vous n’avez pas encore regardé les vidéos présentant la version 2.6, vous pouvez les retrouver ici.

Principales modifications (anglais)

• APG only: NEW : Exposure fusion Preview :
  • In the exposure fusion, a small but real rendering has been plugged to show you the accurate color you’ll get after rendering. It’s been regenerated following any cursor change.

• APG only: IMPROVED : Integration into external softwares :
  • Support for Adobe Lightroom 3.* ( A new way to integrate this plugin has been done : it’s now an export plugin in Lightroom ).
  • Support for Adobe Bridge CS3, 4, 5, 5.1 ( Raw are now developed before stitching in jpeg )
  • Support for Apple Aperture 3 ( Raw are developped either in Tiff or Jpeg before stitching )
  • Support for Google Picassa 3 ( no raw development here, raw is injected directly into Autopano Giga ).

• IMPROVED: Neurone ( our optimizer engine ) has a lot of improvement or new features :
  • As a result, the geometric quality of stitching has raised a lot on small focal length rectilinear lenses ( typical lens for high order distortion ).
  • By default, the sensor center shift has been enabled. This also give a nice boost is RMS quality. It’s often not negligeable at all with today’s sensor number of pixels.
  • Speed of fisheye stitching : at least 300% speedup, but it can be 10x too on big project.
  • On standard lens, support for 2nd and 3rd order distortion.
  • On standard lens, support for offset between lens and sensor.
  • Warning : as the lens model has improved, opening a 2.6 autopano .pano file under an old version won’t give nice results.

• NEW / IMPROVED : Rendering engine blending improvement and new features :
  • Priority support for several focal length : the longest focal length lens has priority over pixels coming from short focal length lens.
  • Histogram of focal length is now display around the rendering percentage slider. This allows a nice view over pixel density.
  • The multiband stage has been improved ( pyramid levels adjusted ) resulting in a better color uniformization over the whole area. No more issue in skies should happen now.

• IMPROVED : Move mode
  • Better handling of keyboard operation in that mode in CPU or GPU.
  • Mouse operation are happening smoothly without any visual artefact.

• IMPROVED : Papywizard and Gigapan plugin
  • Because of the Neurone engine upgrade, we changed a little the way we cope with such plugin.
  • The quality of stitching has raised in both mode with better handling of gigapan project and better located orphen images in Papywizard.

• NEW – GPU mode is enabled by default if possible

• IMPROVED – Layer editor check/uncheck is more user friendly

• FIX – Rendering with small percentage could give too sharp results.

• FIX – Update manager could miss to warn about some updates

And a lot of fixes.

Corrections de bugs

- 0000925: [Import plugins] Papywizard -> remove temporary point after optimization – assigned.
- 0000923: [UI behavior] Editor: pano move selected by default even when GPU is disabled – resolved.
- 0000921: [UI behavior] Slider rendering Percentage under mac not visible – resolved.
- 0000924: [Import plugins] Import Gigapan: color egalization to disable when optimization disabled – resolved.
- 0000922: [Cortex ( rendu )] Crash during multiband – resolved.
- 0000915: [UI behavior] Without GPU available, some UI defects make settings window hard to use – resolved.
- 0000868: [Editor] Blue Control point link cannot be selected until optimization – resolved.
- 0000843: [Editor] Move Mode : Texture is one move ahead – resolved.
- 0000842: [Editor] Move mode : key mode doesn’t validate – resolved.
- 0000847: [Unclassified] GPU activated by default – resolved.
- 0000832: [Image I/O] Launch a second instance of APG on MAC with args does not open new images given as arguments – resolved.
- 0000575: [Cortex ( rendu )] Reopening .pano file change the RMS ( gigapan case ) – resolved.
- 0000867: [Performance] Core setting should be clamp to newly detected number of core – resolved.
- 0000890: [Editor] GPU display of high offset images is not well located on the preview – resolved.
- 0000893: [Unclassified] Beta version isn’t informed of final release – resolved.
- 0000892: [Editor] Finetunning detection with new lens distorsion model – resolved.
- 0000884: [Neurone ( optimisation )] By default, on standard lens with exif, enable sensor offset – resolved.
- 0000750: [Cortex ( rendu )] Crash when rendering – photos with different focal lenght – resolved.
- 0000815: [Cortex ( rendu )] Wrong interpolation when rendering < 50% – resolved.
- 0000856: [Editor] GPU black image on ATI – resolved.
- 0000833: [Import plugins] Aperture Export Bug – resolved.
- 0000875: [Image I/O] Cameras.txt => canon scale factor are off scale – resolved.
- 0000831: [Unclassified] Plugin lens correction : some pixels added around the openLens plugins – resolved.
- 0000840: [UI behavior] Bad layer behavior in pano editor – resolved.
- 0000863: [Editor] Export only some image among a lot of – resolved.
- 0000845: [Editor] Some progress bar are missing – resolved.
- 0000855: [Editor] Exposure fusion preview in CPU broken – resolved.
- 0000783: [UI behavior] hourglass not present when clicking optimize – resolved.
- 0000800: [Image I/O] Lightroom feedback – resolved.
- 0000728: [Shell Integration] Lintian issues pass – resolved.
- 0000861: [Import plugins] Openlens plugins, everything is black in output – resolved.
- 0000725: [Performance] Free space checking for temp folder should parse external computer or website – resolved.
- 0000829: [Qt] undefined symbol: _ZN9QListData11detach_growEPii – resolved.
- 0000857: [Image I/O] Wrong folder in .pano, should look directly in current folder first – resolved.
- 0000853: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Preview / Rendering is not the same visually – resolved.
- 0000616: [Editor] Add image which is not fisheye leads to crash – resolved.
- 0000812: [UI behavior] Centerpoint tool still active during Levels settings – resolved.
- 0000814: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Load .pano and reoptimize break the panorama – resolved.
- 0000844: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Difference between display angle in layer editor and saved angle in .pano – resolved.
- 0000838: [Unclassified] Plugin Installation on Mac Lion is broken – resolved.
- 0000830: [Cortex ( rendu )] The Blending Options by default is Custom – resolved.
- 0000835: [Cortex ( rendu )] Check multiband on this case – resolved.
- 0000926: [Cortex ( rendu )] Check the global User setting for rendering – closed.
- 0000834: [Editor] Manual placement of image does produce jump sometimes – closed.
- 0000813: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Wrong 360° panorama detected after an optimization – closed.

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6 beta 2.

Si vous avez manqué les vidéos présentant Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga 2.6, vous pouvez les retrouver ici.

Journal des modifications (en anglais) :

APG only: NEW : Plugin for external software: Adobe Bridge CS3, 4, 5, 5.1 (Raw are developped in JPG)

Fixes :

- 0000819: Mercator projection is set right in the exifs
- 0000817: Mac OSX Lion compatibilty
- 0000807: Sequentially numbered PSB files are not created (no overwrtie filenames)
- 0000805: Lightroom install
- 0000804: TIFF: Alpha Channel area mask being ignored
- 0000803: Plugin lightroom Bridge : Error ADVAPI32.dll on Windows XP
- 0000799: Papywizard import does not reset
- 0000795: Picassa plugin doesn’t call Autopano on Windows.
- 0000794: TIFF Input
- 0000791: Bridge plugin should develops raws files using Camera Raw

Télécharger Autopano Pro / Autopano Giga 2.6 bêta 1.

Cette mise à jour gratuite apporte des améliorations et de nouvelles fonctionnalités. Découvrez-les dans les vidéos et le journal des modifications ci-dessous.

Les principales nouvelles fonctionnalités :
- intégration d’Autopano Giga dans des logiciels tiers (Adobe Lightroom 3.x, Adobe Bridge CS3, 4, 5 et 5.1, Apple Aperture 3, Google Picasa 3) — Autopano Giga seulement ;
- nouvelle génération de Neurone, le moteur d’optimisation d’Autopano : il est maintenant de 3 à 10 fois plus rapide sur les images fisheye et offre un nouveau modèle de lentilles ;
- meilleur support des multiples longueurs focales avec une priorité donnée à la plus longue focale pour en garder tous les pixels (en savoir plus, en anglais);
- meilleure harmonisation des couleurs (en savoir plus, en anglais).

Toutes les nouvelles fonctionnalités et les corrections de bugs sont listées à la fin de cet article.

Vidéo : l’intégration d’Autopano Giga dans Lightroom, Bridge, Aperture et Picasa

Vidéo : l’optimisation fisheye dans Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga 2.6

Vidéo : la nouvelle correction des distorsions des lentilles dans Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga 2.6

Le journal des modifications : les nouvelles fonctionnalités et les correctifs en détail (en anglais)

New features

APG only: NEW : Integration into external software:

• The idea is that you keep your own workflow with Raw development from your standard tools, select Autopano Giga as an external tool and the raw development process will be done so that in Autopano Giga, you have the right files ( TIFF 16 bits ).
• Support for Adobe Lightroom 3.*
• Support for Adobe Bridge CS3, 4, 5, 5.1 ( Work in progress, Raw are not developed yet )
• Support for Apple Aperture 3
• Support for Google Picassa 3 ( no raw development, the raw is directly sent to Autopano Giga ).

NEW: New generation of Neurone ( optimizer engine ) with a lot of improvement or new features :

• Speed of fisheye stitching : at least 300% speedup, but it can be 10x too on big project.
• On standard lens, support for 2nd and 3rd order distortion.
• On standard lens, support for offset between lens and sensor.
• Warning : as the lens model has improved, opening a 2.6 autopano .pano file under an old version won’t give nice results.

NEW: Rendering engine blending improvement and new features :

• Priority support for several focal length : the longest focal length lens has priority over pixels coming from short focal length lens.
• The multiband stage has been improved ( pyramid levels adjusted ) resulting in a better color uniformization over the whole area.

NEW: Layer editor : column hide / show push button to display just the column you want.
NEW: Reset button on fisheye circular crop zone editor.
IMPROVED: Apple Mac installer with a better user interface.
IMPROVED: Linux editor speedup. Linux user should expect a better user experience with faster edtior.
And a lot of fixes.

Fixes

- 0000780: [Image I/O] ICC profil tiff lost – resolved.
- 0000767: [Import plugins] Haze map display doesn’t work on some computer – resolved.
- 0000781: [Cortex ( rendu )] Crash when using Linear rendering without cut – resolved.
- 0000763: [Performance] Linux performance issue – resolved.
- 0000771: [UI behavior] save overwriting option – resolved.
- 0000612: [UI behavior] Standard shortcut checking – resolved.
- 0000720: [UI behavior] New keyboard shortcuts – resolved.
- 0000684: [Synapse ( detection )] Detection error with partial stacked footage – resolved.
- 0000762: [Image I/O] Nouvelle libraries GFL – resolved.
- 0000722: [Cortex ( rendu )] Shorter name when using template %i..%j – resolved.
- 0000690: [UI behavior] UI improvement of the crop editor – resolved.
- 0000753: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Circular crop on different resolution of pictures – resolved.
- 0000743: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Papywizard optimization issue – resolved.
- 0000746: [UI behavior] Ransac model not displayed by default in combo box – resolved.
- 0000680: [Synapse ( detection )] Project template and haze – resolved.
- 0000071: [Cortex ( rendu )] Cortex : Multifocal panorama rendering which priority on longest focal first – resolved.
- 0000719: [Cortex ( rendu )] Disabled image should be rendered – resolved.
- 0000416: [Image I/O] Warning message on greyscale images – resolved.
- 0000639: [Shell Integration] Lightroom integration – resolved.
- 0000640: [Shell Integration] Aperture integration – resolved.
- 0000641: [Shell Integration] Bridge integration – resolved.
- 0000723: [UI behavior] color button update – resolved.
- 0000655: [Editor] RMS filter on link doesn’t filter the selection : you can select hidden links – resolved.
- 0000570: [Shell Integration] Pano load failed – resolved.
- 0000721: [Cortex ( rendu )] Panorama in PSD doesn’t includes exif / iptc anymore – resolved.
- 0000682: [Shell Integration] MAC installer integration – resolved.
- 0000539: [Synapse ( detection )] short focal length rectilinear lens – resolved.
- 0000642: [Shell Integration] Picassa integration – resolved.
- 0000689: [UI behavior] UI light grey : help is black on black – resolved.
- 0000388: [Performance] Optimisation jacobian on fisheye – resolved.
- 0000637: [Neurone ( optimisation )] Advanced lens distortion – resolved.
- 0000669: [Shell Integration] Crash at quit – resolved.
- 0000683: [Cortex ( rendu )] Crash on render (assert) – closed.
- 0000764: [Cortex ( rendu )] Exposure fusion preview versus rendering – closed.
- 0000696: [Cortex ( rendu )] Laplacian issue on the renderer – closed.
- 0000437: [Editor] Strange focal length display on layer editor – closed.
- 0000517: [Editor] Linux – Sometimes during moving pano, application freezes – closed.

• Une interface belle et intuitive
• Une technologie d’assemblage de photos très puissante
• Les fonctionnalités d’édition
• Les nombreuses tâches automatisables
• Le support multilingue
• La compatibilité Windows, Mac et Linux

« Autopano Pro est une application puissante mais simple à utiliser qui permet de créer des panoramas de niveau professionnel. »

Lire le test complet d’Autopano Pro sur FindMySoft (en anglais).

Kolor a annoncé, lors du salon Photokina à Cologne, le lancement prochain de la version 2.5 des logiciels d’assemblage d’images Autopano Pro et Autopano Giga, ainsi que les nouveaux logiciels de création de visites virtuelles Panotour et Panotour Pro.

Les utilisateurs de la version actuelle d’Autopano Pro ou Autopano Giga, ainsi que les nouveaux acheteurs de la version actuelle, bénéficieront gratuitement de la mise à jour. Ils peuvent déjà en profiter en version bêta.

Informations aux utilisateurs

Vous trouverez ci-après :

> Les nouveautés annoncées d’Autopano Pro

> Les nouveautés annoncées d’Autopano Giga

> Les versions bêta à télécharger, si vous souhaitez avoir un aperçu de la version 2.5

Informations pour la presse

> Journalistes, retrouvez dans votre Centre de Presse les derniers communiqués de Kolor ainsi que les dossiers de presse par produit.