In this DIY tutorial, we create a 360° Spherical Panoramas for Environment Lighting on your 3D and CG scenes!
What you Need:
Camera – with a few manual options.
Photo editing software – I used Photoshop Elements. but there’s other free software out there like Gimp.
Tripod.
And your ready to go! I then opened the Environment Map up in Blender, a free open source 3d software.
Download Blender! http://www.blender.org/
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