How to stitch photos with no control points

[John Trandor]

I have 40 photos, but PTGui couldn’t detect matches properly. How can I stitch them together and add control points? (I’m an absolute beginner and I couldn’t understand any of the YouTube tutorials, so please keep it as simple and easy as you can, thank you.)

[PTGui Support]

Hi John,

Please check the video tutorial #3, it shows in detail how to add
control points:

https://ptgui.com/videotutorials.html

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

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[John Trandor]

How can I fix this stitching error in the Panorama Editor?

[PTGui Support]

Hi John,

You might be able to improve the stitching somewhat, by adding extra
control points in that area.

But your images seem to suffer from a significant amount of parallax.
Images with parallax cannot be stitched without errors.

It's quite obvious in your screenshot: PTGui can align the tree in the
foreground, or the trees in the background, but not both at the same time.

Parallax should be avoided, by shooting all images from exactly the same
camera viewpoint.

To learn more about parallax, be sure to watch the first video tutorial
https://ptgui.com/video

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

On 12/19/25 01:07, John Trandor wrote:
> How can I fix this stitching error in the Panorama Editor?

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>
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 8:18:13 PM UTC+1 PTGui Support wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> Please check the video tutorial #3, it shows in detail how to add
> control points:
>

> https://ptgui.com/videotutorials.html <https://ptgui.com/
> videotutorials.html>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Joost Nieuwenhuijse
> www.ptgui.com <http://www.ptgui.com>

>
> On 12/17/25 05:50, John Trandor wrote:
> > I have 40 photos, but PTGui couldn’t detect matches properly. How
> can I
> > stitch them together and add control points? (I’m an absolute
> beginner
> > and I couldn’t understand any of the YouTube tutorials, so please
> keep
> > it as simple and easy as you can, thank you.)
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