If you are new to PTGui and Panorama Tools, the following sites offer
tutorials, written by users of PTGui, to get you started.
Tutorials
Bernhard Vogl has written some good tutorials for PTGui:
-
Creating Panoramas
with PTGui and Panotools
-
Creating a 360 degree QTVR
-
Panoramen erstellen
mit PanoTools und PTGui (German)
-
360 Grad-Panoramen und QTVR (German)
You will find even more tutorials (both in English and in German) on his website
www.dffe.at.
The 123 of digital imaging
by Vincent Bockaert covers nearly every aspect of digital photography, including 13 pages on PTGui Pro.
How
to use Panorama Tools to produce a printable panorama
Good beginner's tutorial by John Houghton
Faire
un Panorama avec PTgui (French)
By Adrien Bonnat
Stitching con PTgui (Italiano)
Arcangelo Piai
PTgui advanced techniques:
control points t1/t2 and "Layers" output options (English)
Tecniche di Photo Stitching (Italiano)
Tecniche di Photo Stitching
Approfondimento: Control Points t1/t2 e uscita "Blended+Layers" (Italiano)
Tecniche di Photo stitching:
il Focus Stitch (Italiano)
By Enrico Cinalli
How to straighten horizons and correct verticals
Using the special Hor / Vert (t1/t2) control points to get a straight
horizons and upright buildings, by John Houghton
Correction of image distortion and perspective
Step by step description of a method to correct image distortion and
perspective using Panorama Tools and PTgui, by Philo
Ultra-High Resolution Digital Mosaics
(PDF format) by J. Brian Caldwell, Ph.D.
Philo's
template collection for PTGui
Templates with samples for some common setups
Correcting lens distortion with the new "Straight
Line" control points and PTGui(or
german
version)
By Erik Krause
Landschaft,
Architektur, Panorama - Professionelle Fotopraxis für gelungene Aufnahmen (german)
DVD Video tutorials, covering (a.o.) panorama photography of architecture and landscape
By Thomas Bredenfeld
Panorama hardware
Nodal Ninja, a lightweight and affordable
spherical panorama head.
Other links
The
PanoToolsNG Yahoo group
is an active community dedicated to panoramic imaging. This is a good place to ask your questions,
or discuss with other photographers about equipment and technique.
Panorama Tools homepage
panorama tools WIKI
Resources and documentation for Panorama Tools and related software
ptfaq.org
(unofficial) Panorama Tools FAQ
DevalVR viewer
A spherical panorama viewer (both standalone and plugin)
FSPViewer
A standalone spherical panorama viewer, by FSoft s.r.l.