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
• Philopod pitch variation technique for shooting handheld

Preparation

• Contrast Blending (Exposure Blending)
• A simple approach to HDR-blending
• Working with RAW files in Photoshop CS2
• RAW dynamic range extraction
• Chromatic aberration
• HDR compression

Stitching

• Basic Panorama Stitching workflow with PTGui 5
• 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

Leveling and Remapping

• Leveling a Finished Panorama
• Leveling a VR shooting setup
• Perspective correction
• How to find entrance pupil (nodal point)
• Unusual remappings

Retouching

Zenith and Nadir retouching

• Zenith and Nadir editing overview
• 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

• 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
• Shadow Removal on Panoramic Photography

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 Map
• Have a single ptviewer.jar file per website

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
• How to install actions in Photoshop
• How to install plug-ins in Photoshop
• Enable windows file extensions
• Embed QTVR into Powerpoint