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Creating 360-Degree Panoramas and Interactive Tours

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Overview

Learn how to shoot and develop stunning 360-degree panoramas and interactive virtual tours. Get shooting tips and post-processing tricks for Lightroom and Photoshop.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching the course
  • Exercise files
1. Uses for 360º Images
  • Commercial photography
  • Personal use
  • Source material for professional productions
2. The Types of Images We're Going to Create
  • Spherical projection
  • Cylindrical projection
  • Cubical projection
  • Resolution considerations
3. Types of Cameras for 360º Imaging
  • One-shot cameras
  • Fisheye lenses with DSLR cameras
  • Standard wide-angle lenses on DSLR or MFT cameras
  • Telephoto lenses for gigapixel images
4. Other Essential Equipment
  • Choosing a tripod and a leveling head
  • Choosing a panoramic tripod head for 360º photography
  • Remote control of the camera
  • Using a gray card
5. Positioning the Camera on the Tripod Head
  • Understanding what parallax is and how no-parallax point helps
  • Using an L-bracket
  • Using a multirow system
  • Using a single rail or dedicated on-lens rotator
  • Building a stable platform
6. Camera Settings for Capture
  • Manual exposure
  • Hyperfocal for everything in focus
7. Shooting a 360˚ Panoramic Image
  • Evaluating the shot
  • Preparing the camera
  • Shooting strategies for a 360˚ panoramic image
8. Shooting a 360˚ HDR Spherical Panoramic Image
  • Why shoot HDR panoramas?
  • Determining the dynamic range and setting the bracketing method
  • Shooting strategies for a 360˚ HDR panoramic image
  • Shooting strategies for a 360˚ panoramic multirow image
9. Additional Options for Capture
  • Getting your camera elevated with a pole
  • Using a helicopter or drone
  • Going handheld
10. Getting Organized for Post-Production
  • Transferring data to a drive
  • Creating stacks with Adobe Bridge
  • Creating stacks with Adobe Lightroom
  • Adding essential metadata
11. Developing Panoramic Images with Adobe Photoshop
  • Developing with Adobe Camera Raw
  • Repairing lens distortion in Adobe Camera Raw
  • Merging a panorama in Adobe Camera Raw
  • Using the Photomerge command
  • Determining the layout method for your panorama
  • Post-merge cleanup
12. Developing HDR Spherical Panoramic Images with Advanced Tools
  • Processing RAW files
  • Combining bracketed images
  • Merging your HDR panoramic images in Lightroom
  • Post-merge cleanup in Photoshop, part 1
  • Post-merge cleanup in Photoshop, part 2
13. Processing Panoramic Images with PTGui
  • Processing RAW HDR files, part 1
  • Processing RAW HDR files, part 2
  • Creating and combining bracketed HDR images in PTGui Pro
  • Output options in PTGui Pro
  • Batch processing the Images in PTGui, part 1
  • Batch processing the Images in PTGui, part 2
14. Processing Panoramic Images with HDRsoft Photomatix
  • Combining bracketed panoramas in Photomatix
  • Choosing a processing method in Photomatix
  • Batch processing the images in Photomatix
  • Post-processing
  • HDR-then-Stitch workflow
  • Convert spherical to cubical, part 1
  • Convert spherical to cubical, part 2
15. Viewing Interactive Panoramas
  • Viewing on your own computer
  • Sharing your panoramas online with Roundme
  • Sharing your panoramas online with Spinattic
  • Uploading and viewing a virtual tour
  • Creating a virtual tour to host on your own server, part 1
  • Creating a virtual tour to host on your own server, part 2
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Ron Pepper and Richard Harrington

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