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)
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General

• The why and how of panoramas
• How stitching works

Photography

• Photography Guidelines
• DSLR spherical resolution
• Video tutorial on finding no-parallax point
• Finding the No-Parallax Point
• Sigma 8mm Fisheye Canon 350D MrotatorCP
• Special issues with fisheye lenses
• Making a spherical panorama by photographing a christmas ball
• Philopod pitch variation technique for shooting handheld
• Video tutorial on three panorama shooting techniques
• Calibrating a panoramic head
• Understanding Parallax

Preparation

• A simple approach to HDR-blending
• Bracketing
• Chromatic aberration
• Contrast Blending (Exposure Blending)
• HDR compression
• RAW dynamic range extraction
• Working with RAW files in Photoshop CS2
• Developing & post-processing fisheye images in LightRoom (video tutorial)

Stitching

• Basic Panorama Stitching workflow with PTGui 5
• Basic panorama stitching in PTGui 9 Pro (video tutorial)
• 360 vr stitching with ptgui for beginners
• Workflows for high resolution partial panoramas
• Workflows for full spherical panoramas
• Using the optimizer
• Full 16 bit workflow
• Using Autopano-SIFT With PTGui
• How to stitch flat images
• Flat stitching for tilt-shift lenses
• Creating linear panoramas with Hugin
• 16bit workflow for Hugin
• 16 bit panorama blending using 8 bit Gimp
• High resolution film transparency digitalization using macro lens and stitching
• HDR workflow with hugin
• Stitching Nadir Shots
• Fixing nadir parallax errors
• Using Celeste with hugin
• Stiching a photo-mosaic
• Creating a Spherical Panorama with Hugin, Panor2VR and Photoshop (Video Tutorial / German)
• Setting control points manually with Hugin
• Hugin Fisheye Basics
• Exposures Stack
• Linear Panoramas with Hugin 's Mosaic Mode
• Some notes on using Hugin's mosaic mode to stitch a street elevation
• Creating Perfect Panoramas, The Open Source Way A complete workflow featuring Hugin, Gimp, SaladoConverter and PaniniGerman Version: Perfekte Panoramen, Open Source
• Reusing bits photos to patch holes in panoramas using Hugin

Leveling and Remapping

• Leveling a Finished Panorama
• Straightening a (360-degree) Panorama
• levelling a panorama image with ptgui
• Leveling a VR shooting setup
• Perspective correction
• finding the no-parallax point
• Unusual remappings

Retouching

Zenith and Nadir retouching

• Zenith and Nadir editing overview
• Video tutorials showing 2 approaches: One uses PTGui, the other KRPano Tools
• How to use PTEditor
• Extracting and inserting rectilinear Views
• Using enblend to fill the "Hole in the floor"
• 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
• How to remove blending error caused by enblend and enfuse at zenith and nadir (automatic)
• Edit nadir with Hugin
• Edit layered nadir with Hugin
• pafextract walkthrough for using panoglview, pafextract and Hugin as a replacement for PTEditor

Tripod Caps

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

Other retouching

• Upsampling a single image with ptstitcher
• Retouching broken lines in Photoshop
• Mending parallax errors with the shear tool
• Shadow Removal on Panoramic Photography
• Time lapse stabilization

Web Presentation

• Partial Panoramas using ROI in PTViewer
• HTML code for several viewers
• Uploading Wiki Related Files Note: Just use the "upload file" link on the left of the page
• create a custom ptviewer jar file
• Geo-referencing panoramas with Google Maps
• Have a single ptviewer jar file per website
• PTViewerME2 Tutorial part 1, part 2, part 3

Virtual Tours

• Creating a Virtual Tour with krpano and Google Maps Plugin (Video Tutorial / German)

Object Movies

• Create object movies
• Self-made object turntable

Printing

• Printing panoramas
• Philosphere

Settings, values and miscellaneous

• How to allocate enough RAM for PTEditor
• Circular cropping values in PTGui
• Build pano12 from sourcecode
• Build pano12 from sourcecode MSVC
• How to install actions in Photoshop
• How to install plug-ins in Photoshop
• Enable windows file extensions
• Embed QTVR into Powerpoint
• Animating panoramas in Blender

Community

• How to use a NNTP newsreader to read the mailing list

External links

• A growing list of very good tutorials can be found on http://www.johnhpanos.com/tuts.htm