Panorama photography is the art of creating panoramic images. Panorama photography is done by taking a number of pictures from the same viewpoint and stitching them together in a photo stitching application such as PTGui.

A sperical panorama is a panoramic image in which you can look around in the entire 360x180 sphere around the camera. PTGui is a (Windows) front end for the great Panorama Tools package, for creating panoramic pictures.

Features of PTGui:

• Create spherical, cylindrical or flat panoramas from any number of source images
• Supports JPeg, Tiff, Png and Bmp source images
• Panorama editor for visual and interactive parameter editing
• Panorama Photography
• Multi-threaded design: all image processing is performed in the background
• Create templates with frequently used settings
• Lens database for easy retrieval of lens parameters

PTGui is a Graphical User Interface for Panorama Tools, Helmut Dersch's versatile panorama stitching software. PTGui makes it easy to stitch images into high quality panoramas.

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Example

Stitched using PTGui: