Tutorials

There is a rating system indicated by *s:

• 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 **

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 *