The last release in July 2009 introduced several major new features, but took
a long time to arrive. This release follows quickly with the intention of
tracking development better with more frequent releases, even so we still have
some great new features and smaller improvements:
* Hardware accelerated stitching
* Control point creator presets
* Exposure layer fusion
* Visual control points
* EXIF metadata display
Like other GUI front-ends, hugin provides an easy-to-use unified point-and-click
interface to a whole range of other command-line tools including:
* autopano-sift, autopano-sift-C, panomatic or autopano for automatic creation
of control points.
* nona for remapping input images and rendering output images.
* enblend and enfuse for seamless blending of output images.
The Hugin project's mission is not only to provide a powerful GUI, but also to
provide opensource replacements for the small number of closed source components
of Panorama tools, especially PTStitcher. A PTStitcher replacement, called nona
has been developed, supporting its most important features.
Among the many flexible Hugin workflow options, it is possible to correct
exposure, Vignetting and White balance between photos; generate HDR or exposure
blended output from bracketed photos; or use 16bit and HDR input data natively.
