Tutorials

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• Basic need: - you are interested in panoramic photography and stitching and need to know basics
• Nice to know: - you have basic knowledge and want to learn more
• Specialised: - you want to get the most of your equipement

General

• The why and how of panoramas

Photography

• Special issues with fisheye lenses
• Making a spherical panorama by photographing a christmas ball
• Sigma 8mm Fisheye Canon 350D MrotatorCP

Preparation

• Contrast Blending (Exposure Blending)
• RAW workflow with Photoshop

Stitching

• Workflows for high resolution partial panoramas
• Workflows for full spherical panoramas
• Full 16 bit workflow
• Using Autopano-SIFT With PTGui
• How to stitch flat images
• Stitching Nadir Shots

Leveling

• Leveling a Finished Panorama
• Leveling a VR shooting setup
• How to find entrance pupil (nodalpoint)

Retouching

• Upsampling a single image with ptstitcher
• Zenith and Nadir editing overview
• How to use PTEditor
• Extracting and inserting rectilinear Views
• Using enblend to fill the "Hole in the floor"
• Retouching broken lines in Photoshop
• Edit zenith and nadir in one go with PTGui
• Edit zenith and nadir in one go with Adjust filter
• How to use enblend for patching zenith and nadir images

Tripod Caps

• Adding a nadir cap (mirror ball)
• Adding a nadir logo with text

Web Presentation

• Partial Panoramas using ROI in PTViewer
• Creating object movies with PanoTools
• HTML code for several viewers
• Uploading Wiki Related Files

Printing

• Printing panoramas
• Philosphere

Settings and values

• How to allocate enough RAM for PTEditor
• Circular cropping values in PTGui