Distortion at Nadir and Zenith of 360 Panorama

[mattw9665449]

Hi All, 

I used my drone to take a group of images that I stitched into a 360 panorama in Lightroom.  I imported the panorama into Photoshop, then added more sky so that the panorama was twice as wide as it was tall.  I then put the panorama into a website that will allow you to rotate the 360 spherical panorama (facebook will do this) but the nadir and the zenith of the panorama are distorted as shown in the attached image.  How can I fix this?  It looks like there aren't enough pixels to fill in the bottom, so the image had to be stretched to fill it in.  I included two nadir photos in the set that that panorama was stitched from. 

[mglush]

Hi!

Was there any distortion in your original photos? Because it looks more like the distortion came from the angle of your shots as the image was stitched together. Do you have any other shots you can use to create the panorama?

This might be an occasion where you have to fix it manually.

[mattw9665449]

I don't think there was any distortion in the original image.  Here is the raw image from the drone and it looks good. 

[mglush]

But you can definitely see the distortion in the 360 shot--it looks like the middle was pinched together. Can you use the original photo to collage together and fix the distortion?

[mattw9665449]

How would I do that?

[mglush]

You said there were two images that created the panorama, right? Can you show the other one also so we can see it?

Michelle

[mattw9665449]

I'm thinking that what's happening is that it's cropping out the bottom portion instead of auto-completing any holes in very bottom part, so the panorama has to be stretched when it's put in a 360 3D environment.  Any ideas on how to fix this?