Tom Hall
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Location: Santa Rosa, United States
Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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2nd Attempt - Critique & Help Please
Posted: 1 May 2008 at 2:06 GMT
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Ya know, you guys (and gals?) are the best with your support. I took you comments and went back to the hotel today to try again, www.tmhdesign.com/room.html  I am very happy with the outcome. Can it be better than this? Also, in using PTGUI I am curious that if I want to say fix the dimensions so as to get the lowest size file but the best picture how to do this? I would think that a 4mb file to download on a hotel website is a bit much. When I use to use easypano I would get a decent jpg file down to about 500kb for a nice panorama?
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Doug Aurand
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Location: Albuquerque, NM, United States
Registered: 2 Jan 2008
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Re: 2nd Attempt - Critique & Help Please
Posted: 1 May 2008 at 4:31 GMT
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Tom
Pretty nice.
A little work with Photoshop and you could get it very nice.
As far as size, Marriott.com has a standard of 2048x1024 and 400KB or smaller for displaying at 320x240 to 400x300
Can we send you the bill for consulting services now? 
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
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gus
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Location: United Kingdom
Registered: 19 Jun 2007
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Re: 2nd Attempt - Critique & Help Please
Posted: 1 May 2008 at 5:17 GMT
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Tom,
Fantastic job with the windows. I see you limit the tilt and included a zenith . Those dust specs are very easy to remove in photoshop using the clone or patch tool.
To use the patch tool is very easy, make sure the "source" is clicked and not "destination".
Here is simple tutorial:
www.quamut.com/quamut/photoshop_cs3_patch_tool
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Oender
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Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Registered: 16 Apr 2007
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Re: 2nd Attempt - Critique & Help Please
Posted: 1 May 2008 at 5:22 GMT
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Hi Tom! this one is much better, sems Spending Your practice time the right way. Post the other panos soon.
Cheers
Oender
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John Houghton
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Location: Hitchin, United Kingdom
Registered: 17 Jan 2005
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Re: 2nd Attempt - Critique & Help Please
Posted: 1 May 2008 at 6:50 GMT
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Tom, It's good to see that you have acted on all the helpful suggestions and produced a very good result. The .mov file size is 4.3MB yet the cubic tile size is only 900, (corresponding to an equirectangular size 2830x1415). For that tile size, the .mov file should only be around 400KB. Evidently you applied insufficient compression by specifying a quality setting of 100%. The amount of compression you can get away with varies according to the image contents, but 70% usually works well enough and will give you an acceptable file size.
The verticals are slightly out of true and it takes only a minute or two to level them accurately in PTGui. You can level before stitching, or if necessary you can start a new project with the finished equirectangular and level that in exactly the same way. See www.johnhpanos.com/levtut.htm .
John
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