Doug Aurand
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The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 2:17 GMT
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The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade now has Presets and Batch Processing.
I can move though 25 stills with just a few clicks on each image with my personal Default Settings to get started on each image and can save HDR Settings for virtual image source pics and use it for each of the shots for a scene.
Also, I found the White Balance Picker Tool; click on something white in the blended image and you'll get really close to the white balance. Some times its dead on.
For processing lots of photos quickly, its getting better & better
Latest Beta is good til June 1 2011
Give it a try
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
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tturner
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 11:56 GMT
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Just downloaded the new version and looking forward to checking it out.
Doug can you upload a sample or two of your work using the new version.
Also, how big is your bracket?
TTurner
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Doug Aurand
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 15:04 GMT
updated: 7 Apr 2011 at 15:07 GMT
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TTurner
There's a finished still for a real estate shoot below. After the HDR processing in Oloneo, I fix the Perspective and do a little tuning in Photoshop finishing with resizing to a practical size for the MLS system
My bracket varies with the dynamic range of the rooms; outdoors 5 shots 1.5EV apart is fine, in a room with dark areas, like the beams in the sample and bright windows or sliding glass door, I shoot up to 7 or 8.
I start +2EV and manually go darker (faster shutter speeds) in 1.5EV steps until only the bright windows are visible.
I do the same thing with my virtual tour source images, starting with the +2EV over the darkest portion of the room. Then shoot the other 4 shots with the same exposures starting with the brightest window in the scene as it determines how dark I need to go to capture window view.
What I was having to enter in Oloneo manually using the Local Tone Mapper was TM Strength of 60, Detail Strength of 10, Exposure of 80, Brightness of 10, Contrast of 10 and Saturation of 85.
Now I can enter all those in one click with a Preset
The program is so fast, Batch processing is almost unneeded
Good luck
Doug Aurand
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mediavets
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 16:31 GMT
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Doug Aurand said: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade now has Presets and Batch Processing.
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For processing lots of photos quickly, its getting better & better
Latest Beta is good til June 1 2011
Give it a try
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
I fear that your enthusiatic advocacy risks increasing the launch price. 
Andrew
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Doug Aurand
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 16:56 GMT
updated: 7 Apr 2011 at 16:58 GMT
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mediavets said: I fear that your enthusiatic advocacy risks increasing the launch price.
Andrew
They're competing with Photomatix Pro at US$99 and free HDR tools like Enfuse Droplets, so they can't charge too much or they risk being overpriced
I think Oloneo is worth more than Photomatix, so I'm good with a higher price.
And as a Beta Tester, I'm getting a discount anyway
Doug Aurand
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Tactus 360
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 17:05 GMT
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Doug,
I am in agreement with you that this is indeed a good program, but having changed machines lately, am a little loathe to install it when I am quite happy with DxO and HDR Darkroom. However, I will bow to your judgement here, if you can tell me whether the batch process supports 16-bit tiff and, importantly, whether it has a means of controlling CA. Its last incarnation didn't, which IMHO made it good, but not quite up to the mark. Speed aside, those are features I really need.
Jon
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bigwade
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 17:40 GMT
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Doug Aurand said: And as a Beta Tester, I'm getting a discount anyway
Doug Aurand
Albuquerque, NM
Ask for a MAC version asap..
That would be nice.
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markkuk
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 18:03 GMT
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This pano is stitched from images batch processed through Oloneo (16bits in/out)
www.panoguide.com/gallery/2183/
I don't remember anything about CA control, but Lightroom takes care of that for me.
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Doug Aurand
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 7 Apr 2011 at 22:24 GMT
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markkuk has answered the question about Batch Processing 16bit images.
I'm not aware of anything that corrects CA at this time, but I haven't tried the RAW Converter, which is where I would think it would be.
There is a request for a CA correction feature on the Flickr forum for OPE
Their website says the following about a MAC version;
The Mac OS version of Oloneo PhotoEngine is not available at this time. The product runs with good performance on a dual-core Mac with Parallels Desktop 5.
The "at this time" phrase would indicate they may be planning a MAC version at some point
The program saved me from a major error of mine. I shot a room with Fluorescent Lights that were driving me crazy. So I set the WB on my camera to Fluorescent and shot it.
The I went out into the bright New Mexico sunshine, couldn't read the display well in the bright light and didn't notice I hadn't switched back to AWB or Daylight.
OPE was able to fix the terribly blue photos so they were like they were shot correctly
I've even used the White Balance Picker on a single .tiff file, a finished Equirectangular Projection, to make a final WB adjustment. It worked great.
Later
Doug Aurand
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michael przewrocki
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 8 Apr 2011 at 1:51 GMT
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markkuk, do you know rainer k. lampinen-tampere? master of panorama arts, panorama professor. panoramicimages.fi
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Jarredja
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 8 Apr 2011 at 2:12 GMT
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Doug said: OPE was able to fix the terribly blue photos so they were like they were shot correctly
You could fix that by adjusting the raw files too.
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Doug Aurand
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 8 Apr 2011 at 5:00 GMT
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Jarredja said: Doug said: OPE was able to fix the terribly blue photos so they were like they were shot correctly
You could fix that by adjusting the raw files too.
I don't shoot RAW, converting them takes too long, especially when I'm just going to blend 5 to 7 of them together in an HDR program
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 8 Apr 2011 at 5:25 GMT
updated: 8 Apr 2011 at 5:43 GMT
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Thomas Krueger
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 8 Apr 2011 at 8:03 GMT
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Having a DSLR and not shooting RAW for these kind of mounted and blended images is like driving a Porsche with the tires of a Ford T. 
In fact, look at the door and windows on the right side of the image, you can see the chromatic aberration of your lens.
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DennisS
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Re: The latest Oloneo Photo Engine Beta upgrade is great
Posted: 8 Apr 2011 at 12:24 GMT
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I was forced to shoot RAW with my NEX-5. The CA is so bad in the .jpeg images. After spending some time with ACR and doing research, I am now at the point where adjusting out CA is a snap and takes just seconds to do. I am continuing to learn that there are so many more adjustments possible other than just CA with RAW than there ever was with .jpeg. Given all the tools available, there is no excuse for publishing photos with CA.
I believe Oloneo can independently adjust white balance for various light sources. I seem to remember reading somewhere that you need mulitple exposures, all at the different white balance settings in order for this to work. I could be wrong about that. Shooting RAW will allow you to take just one picture, then save it using different white balance settings.
I have also discovered that if I got an exposure or other setting wrong in a picture and do not discover it until after I have finished stitching, it is so very easy to go back to the RAW file, make the adjustment, then restitch.
Adding RAW to a workflow that already includes Oloneo can result in a higher level of overall quality in the finished product and might actually save time in the long run.
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