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General
Photography
- Photography Guidelines
- DSLR spherical resolution
- Video tutorial on finding no-parallax point
- Finding the No-Parallax Point
- 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)
- Batch merge handheld images
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
- Remove tripod shadows
- How to use PTEditor
- Extract and insert 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
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
- Noise reduction with enfuse
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
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