Edit 360 photos in photoshop 2024

That was a long title but as it says, this post is all about the shooting skills for a killer pano and how to stitch panoramas in Photoshop (and Lightroom, kind of) using the methods that I personally implement.

Everyone does things differently, this is just my way that I am comfortable with.

This post came about after launching the March 2022 Monthly Challenge, which was “Pano”. The inspiration for that challenge was Freki on the Loch:

Now, there is a YouTube video on this topic which will probably be easier to understand and follow than the text here.

You can find the video right here:

https://youtu.be/bHEc7MIeIAI

Let’s start at the top:

What is a panoramic photo

A panoramic photo is one that:

• is at least 2 times as wide as it is tall (or 2 times as tall as it is wide) with a ratio of 2:1 or greater
• usually uses multiple frames/photographs and stitches them together
• captures a wider field of view than can be traditionally captured in one exposure
• is usually reserved for landscape pho