Editing Panorama Tools (section)

==Sub-components==
[[Image:Panotools5618.jpg|thumb|An example of Panorama Tools' ability to remap an image shot with a [[fisheye lens]] ''(top)'' into [[rectilinear lens|rectilinear]] perspective ''(bottom)''.]]

===Original release===
PanoTools consists of the following components:<ref>Dersch's original home page</ref>

;PTEditor: [[Java (programming language)|Java]] interactive panorama editor.
;PTPicker: Java front end to panorama stitcher and other tools. It provides a graphical interface for feature point selection and position optimization.
;PTCrypt: Java tool for scrambling pictures intended to be viewed on-line with PTViewer.
;PTStitcher: Panorama stitching tool which remaps, adjusts and combines arbitrary images to panoramic views.
;PTOptimizer<sup>†</sup>: Optimizes positions and sizes of images using control-point data.
;PTStereo: Creates 3-dimensional objects from 2 or more [[stereoscopic]] images.
;PTInterpolate: Physically valid true view interpolator. Given two images of the same scene taken from different positions, this tool creates views from any intermediate position.
;PTMorpher: [[Morphing]] tool.
;PTAverage: Averages images to reduce noise and enhance density.
;PTStripe: Combines images into movie-stripes for viewing in object-viewers (PTMovie extension to PTViewer).
;PanoTools Plugins:[[Photoshop]], [[GraphicConverter]] and [[GIMP]] plug-ins for image correction and remapping. Also compatible to many other programs that can use [[Photoshop]] plug-ins.
;pano12 library<sup>†</sup>: The underlying panorama library, currently used by several different panorama front-ends and command line programs.
;pano13 library<sup>†</sup>: Current version of the library. No longer compatible with programs for which no source code is available.
<sup>†</sup><small>Open source.</small>

===Further developments===

In 2006 the functionality of PTstitcher was reproduced by the developers of Panorama Tools. Its functionality was broken into several program, in an attempt to modularize it:

;PTmender<sup>†</sup>: Remaps one image at a time
;PTblender<sup>†</sup>: Implements the rudimentary colour correction algorithm found in later versions of PTstitcher
;PTmasker<sup>†</sup>: Computes stitching masks. It implements the ability to increase depth-of-field by stacking images
;PTroller<sup>†</sup>: Takes a set of images and merges them into a single one
;PTcrop<sup>†</sup>: Crops an image to its outer rectangle.
;PTuncrop<sup>†</sup>: Opposite of PTcrop: takes a cropped file and creates an uncropped one.
;PTtiff2psd<sup>†</sup>: Takes a series of input images and creates a Photoshop PSD file where each input file is a layer.
<sup>†</sup><small>Open source.</small>

===Front-ends and applications===
To make working with Panorama Tools easier and to add functionality, many interactive, graphical front-ends to Panorama Tools have been developed, both open source (e.g. [[Hugin (software)|Hugin]]) and commercial (e.g. [[PTgui]] and PTMac), along with a variety of other companion applications (e.g. smartblend and {{Not a typo|enblend}}), which in many cases make interacting directly with the programs in the original Panorama Tools toolset unnecessary.