Creating 360-Degree Panoramas and Interactive Tours
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
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
- Commercial photography
- Personal use
- Source material for professional productions
- Spherical projection
- Cylindrical projection
- Cubical projection
- Resolution considerations
- One-shot cameras
- Fisheye lenses with DSLR cameras
- Standard wide-angle lenses on DSLR or MFT cameras
- Telephoto lenses for gigapixel images
- Choosing a tripod and a leveling head
- Choosing a panoramic tripod head for 360º photography
- Remote control of the camera
- Using a gray card
- 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
- Manual exposure
- Hyperfocal for everything in focus
- Evaluating the shot
- Preparing the camera
- Shooting strategies for a 360˚ 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
- Getting your camera elevated with a pole
- Using a helicopter or drone
- Going handheld
- Transferring data to a drive
- Creating stacks with Adobe Bridge
- Creating stacks with Adobe Lightroom
- Adding essential metadata
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Goodbye
Taught by
Ron Pepper and Richard Harrington
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