Post your panoramic shots...here's mine. Mt. San Gorgonio from Moreno Valley, California.

Nice... looks rather chilly! I'd love to lift those colours playing with some luminosoity masks!!

 

By all means your welcome to have a play around.

I'll drop you a PM.

Gary

 

12 image 360 degree panorama of the Queensland/South Australia border, just south of Birdsville, Qld.

 

nice work, cant see the tape lines, must get some incredible astro opportunities out there.

 

NYC as seen from the Throgsneck Bridge...

 

Here is a panoramic I took a few weeks back, Five Islands, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Its via the G5X/2 so I really dont have to do anything, it does a good job.
Five Islands, NS by ronald embree, on Flickr

 

Nice evening colours in this one Ed.

Gary

 

The colours really grab your attention and lead the eye to the main element in the image, nice shot

 

Thank you, Gary and Craig... it is a bit easier when the subject is there in front of you. Those late Winter / early Spring sunsets are magical, and occur early enough to catch them right after a work day.

 

I took this pano of the Hayward Japanese Garden in California when we were in the US last year. It is a 3-shot pano, hand held.

The gardens are a lovely tranquil spot.

Japanese Garden Pano by John Liddle, on Flickr

 

Beautiful shot John. Very tranquil...

Awesome thread you guys got going here!!

 

It's been a few days but here's an edit of your image to make it pop a bit.

This is what I did to lift the image.
Firstly I just lifted the colours with a Hue/Sat adjustment layer and reduced the blue colour cast in the snow on the mountains with colour correction using a curves layer and finding the black point, white point and mid tone point. These adjustments are all achieved with practice over a long time. I used several different layers, including, colour gradient for the sky, cloning layer to paint in some mountain sections that were missing on the left and levels layers as well. I used a colour gradient mask to add more blue to the sky. I added colour reflection in the water and made the water more blue. This was not an easy edit but all achievable within Photoshop. I've never used GIMP but there are plenty of tutorials on You-tube - as well as PS Elements, which can create luminosity masks.

LUMINOSITY MASKS
In general, a layer mask is a layer which can reveal or hide parts of the underlying layer. You achieve this by painting on the mask, either with WHITE (to reveal) or BLACK (to hide).
A LUMINOSITY mask is a mask created from using the brightness (luminance) of a layer. It will show a range of all shades of grey, from white through to black. Sort of like a film negative.
You can apply many different adjustments to the layer, like Curves, Levels and/or Sharpness to name a few.
You-tube again is a good reference for how-to make and use them.
Take a look HERE.

It's not that easy to explain in words, as is a lot of editing tricks, so a video tutorial will make it easier to grasp the concept.
I hope this is OK.
Cheers, Greg

 

A Pano taken on the Murray River in South Australia.

 

A nice to start off with.

Gary

 

No more power lines - Magic!

 

I must say, I'm impressed with all the Panos I'm seeing here - from all over the world! Well done everyone

 

Very impressive image Gary. We;; done mate. Colours are fabulous and a great wide scene that shows good scale.

 

Great work John. What method did you use to get the 360° ?

 

See that is a skill I would like to know.

Gary

 

Easy as with Elements using the "Spot Healing Brush".
Here's a quick tutorial HERE