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#1 2011-12-16 15:27:28

AlexandreJ
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From: Challes les eaux, France
Registered: 2005-11-14
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Autopano Engine v2.6 Release

Hi,

It's a real pleasure to post a new official release version.
For us, it means the end of development cycle and for you, some new feature and hopefully a better and easier workflow.

The goal for this 2.6 series what quality and speed improvements. I really hope you see that in several areas. Details :

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

Download : http://www.kolor.com/blog-en/2011/12/16 … -giga-2-6/


Take care and happy holidays ( not yet there, but not far ).

Alexandre

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#2 2011-12-16 16:39:31

snaefell
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From: Reykjavik
Registered: 2008-08-11
Posts: 154
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Re: Autopano Engine v2.6 Release

Hi,

AlexandreJ wrote:

It's a real pleasure to post a new official release version.
For us, it means the end of development cycle and for you, some new feature and hopefully a better and easier workflow.

The goal for this 2.6 series what quality and speed improvements. I really hope you see that in several areas. Details :

Guys, you rock. And I guess you can now take a few days of for Christmas?

best regards

Christian

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#3 2011-12-17 03:09:23

phototrek
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From: NorCal, USA
Registered: 2006-02-05
Posts: 166
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Re: Autopano Engine v2.6 Release

Can we somehow achieve that upgrading to a new version won't trash all preferences? I just upgraded and not only was my registration file gone, but so were all preferences, including the naming formats of panoramas etc. Happens every time and is super annoying.


MacPro 8-core Nehalem 2.66 / 12GB
Canon Equipment

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#4 2011-12-19 09:08:14

AlexandreJ
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From: Challes les eaux, France
Registered: 2005-11-14
Posts: 7632
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Re: Autopano Engine v2.6 Release

Hi,

When having such a large number of changes, we always make such that 2 versions of autopano can work in parallel. So 2.5 can work alongside with 2.6. For beta testing, it's just awesome because you can have a production version and still test development versions.
Unfortunately, it means you need to reenter the registration code and settings again for 2.6.

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