Hopefully if I can explain my boss that I can correct those errors I might be able to rent the lens again for a week and get the photoshop elements 7 commissioned for the computer I have

Thanks,

Sandeep

Not much of an 'advert' for a business school if it can't afford a few hundred dollars for software is it?

Where does Tourweaver come into it - it seems you have used krpano?

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Not much of an 'advert' for a business school if it can't afford a few hundred dollars for software is it? wink

Where does Tourweaver come into it - it seems you have used krpano?

hello mediavets,

I am very new to this subject of creating 360 degree panoramas and since I did not getting the desired result ( as I dont know hoe to use it efficiently) I was trying some alternative tools. however "tour weaver" is not related to APG ( what was i thinking?)

Thank you for the screen-shot.

Let me rephrase my question

Please take a look at this 360 X 115 pano I made

http://astro.temple.edu/~tuc18479/Center_city_2.swf

( It is HDR pano and again, the colors are not proper )

You can see that, I just have to render it and export flash using auto pano tour. You can also observe that, the portions I dint cover - the area where the tripod was and the area above me, were chopped off and what is displayed is the final view.

The above pano was made using a EF 18-55mm lens.

So, I rented our a fisheye lens for a day and took the spherical panoramas of my school. which are  360 X 150 .

What I understood from the workflow of APT is that.....for example... if I had to chop off 30 degrees of view from the nadir, the software chops away 30 degrees of view from the zenith ( is this correct ?) However if I make the offset value to be zero, I get a distorted view at the zenith.

I highly appreciate your patience to go through 101 questions like these.

Thanks again,
Sandeep

sjosyula wrote:

Incase of picture 3, the nadir area is included, ( a big black spot) but the zenith is perfect.

You ALWAYS need to have a 2:1 image to get a non-distorted sphere. If you don´t integrate a nadir you don´t get a 2:1 image rendered.

So there are 2 ways to solve the problem:

1) open the rendered image in Photoshop and expand the canvas to 2:1. This way you get a black nadir hole which you can retouch in the bottom-cubeface.
2) you can crop the image in APG. This way the ratio is written in the EXIFs. APT reads the EXIFs and sets a vertical offset so that you get a sphere - which has a limited downlook angle but no distortions.

The best way of course is to shoot a nadir additionally.

best, Klaus