To create spherical panoramas, shoot as many pictures as needed to cover the complete environment around the camera. Use PTGui to stitch the images together to form a spherical panorama.

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
• Spherical Panorama
• 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

Example