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 (English)
- Creating a 360 degree QTVR (English)
- 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.

Levelling a panorama:
How to level a panorama in PTGui (video tutorial by Hans Nyberg)
Vertical Alignment of Panoramas with PTGui (by Willy Kaemena)
Levelling an already stitched panorama (video tutorial by John Houghton)

regaltips.com video tutorials
Here Terry Montague provides several tutorials for PTGui and panorama stitching in general.

Tutorial de fotografía panorámica esférica (Spanish)
Titorial de fotografía panorámica esférica (Galician)
By Suso Martínez

PTGui Viewpoint Tutorial – Nadirbild in Panorama perfekt einsetzen (German)
By Patrick Ludolph

Faire un Panorama avec PTgui (French)
By Adrien Bonnat

Stitching con PTgui (Italiano)
Arcangelo Piai

GIGAPIXEL con le DSLR Nikon (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

PTGui tutorials in Japanese
By Akila Ninomiya (QTVR Diary)

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.

Correcting lens distortion with the new "Straight Line" control points and PTGui
(or german version)
By Erik Krause

Books, video

The 123 of digital imaging
This 'e-book' covers nearly every aspect of digital photography, including 13 pages on PTGui Pro.
by Vincent Bockaert

The HDRI Handbook
Covers (a.o.) stitching HDR panoramas using PTGui Pro.
By Christian Bloch (panorama chapter by Bernhard Vogl)

Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography (english)
Panoramafotografie – Theorie und Praxis (german / deutsch)
A comprehensive guide for panoramic photography, with extensive coverage of PTGui.
By Harald Woeste

Landschaft, Architektur, Panorama - Professionelle Fotopraxis für gelungene Aufnahmen (german / deutsch)
DVD Video tutorials, covering (a.o.) panorama photography of architecture and landscape
By Thomas Bredenfeld

Interaktive Panoramafotografie - Aufnahme, Stitching, Publizieren (german / deutsch)
With in depth coverage of PTGui
By Chris Witzani

Praxisbuch Digitale Panoramafotografie (german / deutsch)
Das umfassende Handbuch zur digitalen Panoramafotografie mit anschaulichen Beispielen.
By Thomas Bredenfeld

Virtual Reality Photography
320 pages covering nearly every aspect of both Panoramic VR and Object VR photography, including photography basics and business practises.
By pioneering VR photographer Scott Highton.

Panorama hardware

Nodal Ninja, a lightweight and affordable spherical panorama head.

MK Panorama Systeme: MK PanoMachine, a motorized VR Head.

Novoflex: Manufactures tripod heads and other panorama hardware.

Seitz Roundshot: VR Drive motorized panoramic head

360Precision: Makers of high precision panoramic heads

Lens shaving service: remove the lens hood from certain lenses for use on cameras with a full frame sensor.

Panorama viewers

To display a 360 degree panorama interactively (allowing the user to 'look around' by clicking and dragging with the mouse), a panorama viewer is needed. One viewer is Apple's QuickTime, which can display QuickTime VR files generated by PTGui.

Web viewers based on Flash:

• Pano2VR
• Flash Panorama Player
  graphical user interface for Flash Panorama Player: Flashificator
• krpano
• PanoSalado

Web viewers based on Java:

• PTViewer

Standalone viewers:

• FSPViewer (Windows only)
• DevalVR Player (Windows only)

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.