@kevinbuckley70 you seem to have a black hole, I’d hazard a guess that your stitched image is not 2:1
Yes, that’s a bit odd. I think this may be finger trouble with PTGui.
A complete “360 sphere” cannot be achieved without an image that’s 2 x 1.
It’s 360° around the horizontal and 180° from top to bottom.
Anything else will cause problems of one sort or another.
“Blank” space needs to be added to the top of you image to create the 2x1.
Photoshop?
- Click the middle-bottom square (marked) anchors the image to the bottom
- Change the height to be 50% of the width … 1893 in this case.
- Set the fill colour and that can be changed later.
Problems were: I’d used the wrong version of Equirectangular (not 360x180) in PTGui. Also, there is a hole in the bottom because the straight down image is just ripply brown water with no identifiable control points in it so it is missing from the panorama. Even manually, I couldn’t find any identifiable points relative to the neighboring images!
Ripply water is a pain - as is ripply sand, that’s not even moving. That one was after loads of manual intervention on most of the beach.
Fields of standing corn, grass, etc, are always equally a pain.
Pretty good! I played with this a bit in PS and used content aware fill to fill the holes. Not too bad. Could do better with more time!