Making a Panosphere: By Strictlyphoto.org

Step 1;

A nicely detailed Psphere needs a well shot panorama.

Iow it all starts with a good shot.Search for a scape that works well as a pano.  A street or a landscape works best.

Take about 24 shots!!! 3 rows of 8 shots!

Use a tripod and shoot 8 photos at 90 degrees with a 20 % overlap.

Than shoot 8 photos at about 60 degrees and finaly 120 degrees.

Shooting HDR ( photoatix) gives you the best results. You will end up with 72 shots

( if you chose a 3 stop HDR)

Stitch all your shots ( HDR) together using Ps

(CS5 File/Auto/photomerge.) I use a program called Ptgui for the best results.

You end up with a 180 degrees Panorama with a size of about 30 mb.

This completes step 1

Step 2; resize

Resize you panorama to 2000 X 2000 (Image/image size/ disable “ keeping proportions.) The bigger you keep the photo the more detail you have afterwards!

That’s why I shoot a 3row panorama! This gives me a lot more detail after resizing!

Step 3: rotate

 Now it’s time to rotate the shot 180 degrees. (Image/Rotate/180) Cut of what you don’t need!

Step 4: polar coordinates

To give the panorama  it’s sphere shape you need to go to ( filter/reshape/polar coordinates.)  Now your shot is really beginning to come a life! We are not ready yet though. We need to make the panosphere a nice flowing one. Using your clone stamp can make the panorama look just that bit better.

finaly

I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial.

I you have any questions please feel free to contact me at my website: http://strictlyphoto.org

Patrick Strik