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Brian Divelbiss

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Jan 28, 2026, 7:42:34 AM (6 days ago) Jan 28
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Relatively new user here.  Last week I was working with some practice files and everything seemed to be working well. Today I tried to do a stitch and the entire output file was just black. I tried several different output formats (TIFF, JPEG, PSB) and they were all black. 

In the panorama editor everything looked fine and there was excellent alignment throughout the pano (lots of good control points). 

I have looked at all the export settings but I can't seem to figure out what may be making the export bad?

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Jan 28, 2026, 9:40:24 AM (6 days ago) Jan 28
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Hi Brian,

Could it be you have increased the preview exposure? In that case what
you see in the Panorama Editor could be brighter than the generated
panorama. If you increased it by a lot, the actual panorama could
effectively be black. Check Panorama Editor - Display - Exposure and
make sure it is set to 0.

Otherwise the panorama should look identical to what you see in the
panorama editor, so there would be a problem somewhere.

Which application are you opening the file in? Not all applications
cannot handle the very large images generate by PTGui. Could you try
opening the generated panorama in PTGui (by dragging it into the PTGui
window) and see if PTGui also shows a black image?

And another thing you could try is disabling GPU acceleration in Options
- Advanced. If that's the issue please let me know.

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com
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Jan 29, 2026, 11:01:23 AM (5 days ago) Jan 29
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Joost

Thanks so much for your prompt reply! Everything worked fine after I disabled the GPU acceleration in the options. 

Brian

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Jan 29, 2026, 11:49:37 AM (5 days ago) Jan 29
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Hi Brian,

Good to know! Could you send me the output of Help - System Information
so I can investigate?

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

On 1/29/26 17:01, Brian Divelbiss wrote:
> Joost
>
> Thanks so much for your prompt reply! Everything worked fine after I
> disabled the GPU acceleration in the options.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 8:40:24 AM UTC-6 PTGui Support wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Could it be you have increased the preview exposure? In that case what
> you see in the Panorama Editor could be brighter than the generated
> panorama. If you increased it by a lot, the actual panorama could
> effectively be black. Check Panorama Editor - Display - Exposure and
> make sure it is set to 0.
>
> Otherwise the panorama should look identical to what you see in the
> panorama editor, so there would be a problem somewhere.
>
> Which application are you opening the file in? Not all applications
> cannot handle the very large images generate by PTGui. Could you try
> opening the generated panorama in PTGui (by dragging it into the PTGui
> window) and see if PTGui also shows a black image?
>
> And another thing you could try is disabling GPU acceleration in
> Options
> - Advanced. If that's the issue please let me know.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Joost Nieuwenhuijse
> www.ptgui.com <http://www.ptgui.com>
>
> On 1/27/26 23:26, Brian Divelbiss wrote:
> > Relatively new user here.  Last week I was working with some
> practice
> > files and everything seemed to be working well. Today I tried to
> do a
> > stitch and the entire output file was just black. I tried several
> > different output formats (TIFF, JPEG, PSB) and they were all black.
> >
> > In the panorama editor everything looked fine and there was
> excellent
> > alignment throughout the pano (lots of good control points).
> >
> > I have looked at all the export settings but I can't seem to
> figure out
> > what may be making the export bad?
> >
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Jan 29, 2026, 1:14:15 PM (5 days ago) Jan 29
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