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General
Photography
- Photography Guidelines
- DSLR spherical resolution
- 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
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
- Creating linear panoramas with Hugin
- 16bit workflow for Hugin
- 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)
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
Tripod Caps
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 / Virtul Tours
- 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
- Creating a Virtual Tour with krpano and Google Maps Plugin (Video Tutorial / German)
Object Movies
Printing
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