My QuickTime VR panorama still has a hole in the top and/or bottom. How do I add a top and/or bottom picture so that the panorama is truly spherical?
PTGui does not require your photos to be limited to a single row. When photographing just take additional pictures with the camera pointing upwards (‘zenith’) and downwards (‘nadir’) photos. But do make sure to rotate the camera around the ‘no parallax point’ (see Q5.4). When you start your new PTGui project, load all your images, including the nadir and zenith photos, before pressing Align Images. The order of the photos is not important, PTGui should be able to figure out which image belongs where in the panorama. After aligning the images in certain cases you may see a red warning ‘PTGui was unable to find control points for one or more images’ in the Project Assistant. If this happens it is important that you add the missing control points manually before proceeding. Click on the link to open the Project Assistant and follow the instructions provided. Once you have added the missing control points, the red warning disappears. Optimize the panorama by pressing the Optimize button an
