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Insert a logo in a 360 image

You make an 360 image, but want to hide the tripod, the artifacts of the stitching or just want to watermark your artwork with a mark of your own.

The simple way is to insert the text in a box in the bottom (~300px) of the image.

Panoramic image with text
Open the panoramic image in a image editor and insert at box with text in the bottom of the image. Then save it.

Thus it will cover the tripod etc. Due to the mapping of the image to a sphere the logo will be exposed to a spheric compression making it look “blown up”.

Bottom plate shown in 360 image
When shown as a sphere the 360 will have a logo like this.

If you’re inclined to show off, you can also spend a little more time and make it look “awesome”, or, just pretend to have too much time on your hands.

Spiral bottom plate in speric image
Using the right combination of distortion-effects can enable nice results
panorama with sphered footer
I may look weird, but when mapped to a sphere, it becomes distorted back to how it was supposed to look

Technique is shown in this video-tutorial.