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Nodal Ninja 3 Tutorial “Making a Panorama”         Intro Tools & Set-Up Shoot Sequence & Stitching - 6 pan, 1 zenith & 2 nadirs on tripod Shoot Sequence & Stitching - 6 pan, 1 zenith, 2 nadirs on tripod & 1 hand held nadir Shoot Sequence & Stitching - 6 pan, 1 zenith & 1 hand held nadir Shoot Sequence & Stitching - 6 pan, 1 zenith & 1 nadir shot on tripod      6 pan, 1 zenith & 1 hand held nadir   Take six pan shots at every 60°, one upward (zenith), and one hand-held downward shot (nadir).        PTGUI...  In PTGUI, add all the images excluding the nadir shot, generate control points and create panorama.  First initial stitch   Pano2QTVR... In PANO2QTVR, convert the stitched image (equirectangular) to a cubical projection.     The six cubical images generated with PANO2QTVR.     Nikon Capture...   With Nikon Capture, "defish" the nadir automatically with one click.     Photoshop...    In Photoshop, open the defished image, copy the corresponding area and paste on top of the cubical nadir.    Add a layer mask.  You may have to use other tools such as warp, distort, skew, levels, saturation, etc.    Once finished editing, in PANO2QTVR, re-convert the six cubical images back to an equirectangular image.    Intro Tools & Set-Up Shoot Sequence & Stitching - 6 pan, 1 zenith & 2 nadirs on tripod Shoot Sequence & Stitching - 6 pan, 1 zenith, 2 nadirs on tripod & 1 hand held nadir Shoot Sequence & Stitching - 6 pan, 1 zenith & 1 hand held nadir Shoot Sequence & Stitching - 6 pan, 1 zenith & 1 nadir shot on tripod   Back to top