My Autopano Pro forum

bemol73 wrote:

Hi,

I'm using a Nikon 8400 and FC-E9 fisheye to capture spherical panoramas.
I'd like to know how I can hide/erase the tripod from the spherical panorama.
If I take my 3 fisheye pictures + 1 regular picture of the nadir (where the tripod is located) and try to mix the 4 pics, APP cannot stitch them all together.
I guess I've missed something. Can somebody give me a hand?

Regards,
bemol73

I'm sure someone will spell out the details or point you to a tutorial on-line somewhere.

But the basics of a widely used technique are:

1. Stitch the three FE images.
2. Convert the stitched pano to cube faces - if on Windows you could use Pano2VR.
3. Patch the nadir cube face with your nadir image using Photoshop.
4. Convert cube faces back equirectangular image if desired.

I don't do it because I'm too lazy instead I limit the FOV in the player - also done using pano2VR - to hide the camera support at the nadir.

Last edited by mediavets (2008-08-01 16:34:42)