Panoramic
Panoramic is wide formatted photography. It is a special technique that stitches multiple images from the same camera together to form a single, wide photograph (vertical or horizontal). The term "panorama" means all sight in Greek. Panorama photos are an easy way to show an entire area in a larger image. Panoramas can be any shape that you make it. If you stitch several images together, whether it comes out as a square or a rectangle it is still considered panorama. There are four different types of Panoramas. There's Wide Angle Panoramas, 180 degrees Panoramas, 360 Panoramas, and Spherical Panoramas. There are two different ways that you can take panorama shots. The first way is horizontal Its an easy method for quick panoramas where resolution is not important. The other way is taking vertical shots. This is the preferred way to capture panoramas. Vertical images capture more of the sky and ground and yield higher resolution panorama compared to horizontal ones. In order for any program to be able to stitch multiple images together, the images have to overlap each other by a certain margin, so that alignment points are properly identified. The alignment points serve as flags for the stitching algorithm that seamlessly merges the images and cuts out the rest of the image. Make sure when shooting these photos you are overlapping them at 50% at the least. The more you over lap them the better they will stitch together and turn out.
Wide Angle Panoramas
These are wide angle photographs, that cover less than 180 degrees, whether its horizontal or vertical. Wide angle panoramas can look like a regular image, except they are stitched from several photographs and therefore would have more irresolution.
180 Degrees Panoramas
These panoramas cover 180 degrees from left to right. These panoramas look very wide and cover a large area.
360 Panoramas
360 degrees panoramas cover up to 360 degrees. These panoramas look extremely wide and cover the whole scene in a single super wide image.
Spherical Panoramas
Spherical panoramas, also known as "planets", are 360 degree panoramas that are converted to a square spherical image using a special post-processing technique.