Editing separate photos

PanoRyse is a photo editor as well as a stitcher. Photos that do not overlap open in photo mode: each keeps its own edit, and nothing stitches unless you ask.

1. Import and choose photo mode

Import a few photos that do not overlap (holiday shots, say).
A window asks: These look like separate photos. Choose Edit as separate photos (recommended). The other choices are Find panoramas among them, Stitch them all anyway and I'll decide later.
Tick Remember for imports of separate photos and later imports skip the window.

The window These look like separate photos, offering photo mode, finding panoramas or stitching anyway — The window for photos that do not overlap.

A single photo opens in photo mode straight away.

2. Edit each photo

The inspector has two tabs, Develop and Info. There are no stitch steps or banners in photo mode.
Click a photo in the list on the left to edit it. Each photo keeps its own develop settings, crop and layers.
Everything in Develop works on single photos: panels, adjustment layers, masks, picture layers and, in Night & Astro, the star separator and Auto colour (astro).

Photo mode with three photos in the list and the Develop inspector — Photo mode: the photo picked in the list is the one you edit.

3. The Info tab

Info holds the photo's details (camera, lens, exposure), Location & Map for photos with GPS, Plate Solve & Sky for night photos, and Selected Photos.

The Info tab in photo mode — Info: details, location, plate solving and the selected photos.

4. Sync settings

Edit one photo until you like it.
In the list, select the other photos with Ctrl+click or Shift+click.
In Info > Selected Photos, tick what to copy: Develop, Crop, Layers, Masks.
Press Sync settings to selected. It is one undo step.

5. Batch export

Set the format and options in the Export tab.
In Info > Selected Photos, press Export N selected photos... and choose a folder.
Each photo is written with its own edit as <name>_PanoRyse.<ext>. Nothing is overwritten: a second file gets -2, -3 and so on. A progress bar and Cancel batch show while it runs.

Changing your mind

The chip beside the mode on the top bar shows the project kind: Photo, Photos, Panorama, Sets, Astro stack or Astro mosaic. Click it to change the kind; Ctrl+Z undoes the change. Edit > Stitch as Panorama stitches the photos directly.