Workflow to improve DNG 360 panorama

Video and Photo Editing
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Up until now, I have tended to always shoot in jpg for 360 panoramas.

However my understanding is that DNG files will be better quality.

I took a couple of 360 images with my Mavic 3 Pro

However they are not publishable, IMHO, as the quality is poor with the lower shots very dark.

I appreciate that in theory I can work on these, but if I make image 15 brighter, that will look odd next to number 14 etc

I have used a trial version of PTGui to merge the files outputting as jpg, so ignore the watermarks

I have uploaded them to Kuula - one as it was produced and one with 100% HDR alteration in Kuula

I would welcome the thoughts of others, plus any suggestions to improve my workflow.

With 100% tone mapping

Thanks

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Have you put the same through AGP?

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Unfortunately I am struggling with getting my head around all the steps. Hence why I was looking at a shorter route.

Apart from the poor stitching the jpg version is 100 times better.

I will see if I can find a youtube video etc.

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Once you have done it once, you can save the settings so you don’t need to change them each time. You can also set apg to apply other settings to each photo too.
And yes, dng will always be much better. It really is worth playing about with it

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I will give it another go.

Although the photoshop steps no longer works unless you have a 21 version.

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This is the image from AGP

I have tried to improve it in Affinity, but to limited success

However this is the jpg, which is far better - although maybe a little red on the bricks.

But it does seem to have far more clarity.

On this basis, it seems that JPG is better?

Hence my confusion.

I am not an expert in this field, hence the post.

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RAW/DNG will always be better IF you know how to edit. There is always much more info contained in those files, hence the size of them compared to jpg. But for showing on the web? sometimes it’s not worth the effort, but ymmv