How To Install The Smartblend Plugin With Ptgui For Mac

Unzip the Smartblend-plugin folder and move it inside the PTGui program folder. You may want to create a desktop shortcut for PTGui and for the batch stitcher (RunStitcher.exe.

Hello and welcome to part 3 of my little panoramic photography tutorial series. My name's Florian, and I'm really good at shameless plugs — so please make sure you visit my website www.Pano.ie In the first part of this tutorial series I showed you how to *shoot* panoramic images out in the field. In particular, I was using 3 techniques: The first one was called 'Philpod pitch variation technique' and I used an 8mm fishey lens on a full frame camera. Today I will show you how to stitch the images shot with this technique.

In the next tutorial (which will come after this) I will show you how to stitch the images from the third technique that we did at the time, which involved an 8mm fisheye lens on a crop camera, but using a tripod. So we'll have a little bit more editing to do in the next tutorial where we have to remove the tripod.

This tutorial today will be very straightforward, I'll just show you how to load the images into PTGui, make a few adjustments here and there, stitch the images together and we're done. So this is just a very 'no-frills' tutorial to PTGui. You can do the same stuff with 'Hugin' which is a free tool, whereas PTGui costs a little bit of money, but I just ended up purchasing a license and I'm very happy with it, so I can really recommand it. Anyway, let's get started.

So, we'll open up PTGui.. Here are the images that I exported in the second tutorial from LightRoom and those four images here are the ones that we shot with the.. Best photo slideshow for mac.

(ah, I need to grab a different window) these are the images that we shot with the first technique. First thing we're going to do is to adjust the crop of the images, as you can see the image circle projected by the fisheye onto the camera sensor. What we'll need to do is to tell PTGui what part is the image, and what isn't.

So I'll adjust that crop — and this is now being propagated to all four images automatically. Download google sheets app. Another thing that I will do — especially because I shot hand-held — is to tell the optimizer to go really 'hardcore' and optimize virtually everything, except the viewpoint.

We don't need to optimize the viewpoint because we shot all the images from the same position. Well, roughly at least. That's all we need to do and then we're just going to hit 'Align images'. Now, PTGui is going to do its magic.

It's trying to find some corresponding points in the images and then that way it figures out how those images need to be arranged in order to completely cover the 360° sphere. So let's have a look at that. That's actually looking pretty good now. If I go around.. It is almost straight.. Here's another trick on how to see whether it's straight or not: Just spin your panorama like that. If it's wobbling a little bit then you know it's not straight.

Another problem that we have, if you look down, are these flare issues here that come from the Peleng fisheye, which has some serious flare issues, especially because we have a huge bright sky above us. There was flaring right along the bottom edge of the images — you can see that here. This is what we're going to do in the last tutorial — I will show you how to edit the vertically down perspective. Anyway, what we do now is to level the panorama. The best way to do this is to give PTGui a few extra clues: We need to tell it what are some vertical lines in the images.

To do that, we have to select the *same* image in *both* of the editor windows — you can see image 0 in both windows — and I will selected point along a same vertical line in the image. You can see, I have added two 'vertical line' control points. Now, another line that we're going to pick in this image would be this one here.