- There are many output options available,
but let's talk specifically about the output options
used for our HDR workflow.
For many panoramas like this one,
there are not too many difficulties involved.
So, we're ready to go ahead and render our panorama
and finish the steps we're doing in PTGui Pro
and we do that under the Create Panorama tab.
If we just go from top to bottom,
I'm gonna start by clicking this Set optimum size button,
and that sets the width and height in such a way that
all the pixels from the source images are used,
none are wasted, and we have the full resolution possible.
As far as the file format, it says LDR file format
for Low Dynamic Range format.
That means we're not going to be creating a 32-bit image
in this case for tone mapping later.
We're using exposure fusion right now.
So, we're just going to create low dynamic range images.
And I want to use TIFF image because
each time that I save a JPEG, there's a
certain compression done and over time
and many times saving, we will lose a lot of quality there.
So, we'll go ahead and use TIFF now
'cause it's a loss-less format.
By default, it has checked the Exposure fused panorama,
but I prefer to use another tool, Photomatix Pro
for that step, so we want to uncheck that and instead,
check Blend planes and blend planes are
individual TIFF files,
which are going to be one full panorama
for each exposure level.
So, in other words, we're going to end up with
bracketed panoramas, which we can combine in Photomatix Pro
just like we would combine in the other
bracketed source images.
I'll go ahead and use the default file name for this
and we'll just create the panorama,
which just takes a few minutes
by clicking Create Panorama here.
Alright, once our rendering finishes,
I want to go ahead and view my results.
Now, your operating system and your workflow's going to vary
but it has this handy view button here
and I can click that and choose to
open the output folder and this works on both
Mac and Windows.
Now what we're seeing is our source JPEG images
on the bottom, our project file.
The pts is the PTGui project file,
and our three resulting panoramas,
one for each exposure.
Just to make it easier to see, let's go ahead
and open that in Bridge again and now at the bottom,
we see our three images.
So there we go, one for each shutter speed.