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join opened leyer in hdr mode
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Re: join opened leyer in hdr mode
Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 19:17 GMT
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Hi Luigi,
You’ve asked several Photoshop questions on this forum. Don’t you have access to the Photoshop CS5 online help files in your language?
Automate > ‘Merge to HDR Pro’ only accepts files or a folder.
I you already have a layered panorama file from your stitching program, you can open it and select
File > Scripts > Export Layers To Files.
When you have exported the layers to files, you can then run Automate > Merge to HDR Pro. Select the files you exported.
All of this information is in the Photoshop CS5 online help files.
Judy
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Photoshop plugin to edit the edge of an equirettangolar image
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Re: Photoshop plugin to edit the edge of an equirettangolar image
Posted: 14 Mar 2012 at 15:10 GMT
updated: 14 Mar 2012 at 15:11 GMT
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Luigi Pirandello said: so i'm finding a plugin or a action to move-ghange the edges of the image pano. Exaple: in my last pano i created a mask to exclude the sky and then i retoched it with brush at the edges but it's not confortable control if my touchs of brush is equal both one side and other side.
Learn how to record Actions in Photoshop.
I’ve recorded two actions. One I’ve called “Offset 5000 pixels horizontal” and the other is “Offset -5000 pixels horizontal”. With the Actions panel in button mode, I can quickly offset several layers and/or masks and then move them back again.
Judy
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Re: PTgui and other software question
Posted: 13 Mar 2012 at 21:40 GMT
updated: 13 Mar 2012 at 21:42 GMT
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Hi Jesse,
I’ve used all three programs and own current versions of PTGui and Autopano Giga.
For landscape photography, where anti-ghosting is a must, and on my Mac, Autopano Giga 2.6.2 (beta) is beautifully fast. My 10,100 pixel wide spherical panos with about 8 source images, and with anti-ghosting enabled, usually stitch within two minutes.
In PTGui on a Mac, you need a Windows emulator, WINE, to run third-party anti-ghosting (Smartblend).
www.tweakbits.com/Smartblend/smartblend.html
This slows stitching to a crawl. However, if you’re doing only real estate interiors where nothing ever moves, anti-ghosting may not be an issue.
Autopano, with GPU processing enabled, offers very fluid moving and rotating in the edit window. The interface is attractive. By comparison, I find PTGui rather slow, homely and clunky.
PTGui has better support for template stitching, so if you have a very rigid pano bracket with perfectly reproducible positions, you can batch stitch without control point detection. This could be an advantage when stitching rooms with poor control-point targets such as large smooth walls or repeating elements.
In-program image masking: PTGui Pro – yes, Autopano Giga – no
Viewpoint correction of nadir image: PTGui Pro – yes, Autopano Giga – no
Autopano Mac versions require an Intel processor.
I use PTGui from time to time, but always come back to Autopano Giga for ease of use and speed. Do try the Autopano demo so you can judge for yourself.
www.kolor.com/download-autopano-panotour-panorama...
Judy
Autopano Giga 2.6.2
Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon
6 GB RAM
Mac OS 10.6.8
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Re: Yasuhara Madoka 180 samples
Posted: 13 Mar 2012 at 17:52 GMT
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Hi Thomas,
The Madoka 180 fisheye for the mirrorless cameras is and interesting addition to the lens possibilities for panorama photographers. Sample images available here.
www.yasuhara.eu/news/yasuhara-madoka-180-coming-s...
I’m not impressed with the circular projection. So much of the sensor is wasted.
It would be interesting to see some comparisons between panoramas of the same scene taken with this lens and the Samyang and Sony fisheyes. I’m sure the Samyang would give a higher-resolution panorama.
Very nice panoramas they’ve shot with this new lens, though. It looks like they were in the Northwest Territories at the Aurora Village lodge.
www.spectacularnwt.com/node/351
Sadly, during the last solar storm we were clouded over, so I didn’t get a chance to see the aurora.
Judy
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Flash viewer for cylindrical JPG
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Re: Flash viewer for cylindrical JPG
Posted: 11 Mar 2012 at 21:15 GMT
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frEEk said: I'm having a hard time finding a good flash based viewer to display simple cylindrical projections as output from Hugin (at least I assume they are cylindrical).
Have you tried Pano2VR? It will do cylindrical Flash panos with no need for XML input.
gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2vr.php
Other options are listed here:
wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_Viewers
Judy
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Group Photography Panoramic
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Re: Group Photography Panoramic
Posted: 7 Mar 2012 at 0:30 GMT
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What’s the end purpose of the panorama? Do the subjects have to stand on straight rows of risers?
Option 3: You can make a much more charming and informal group photo by arranging subjects in a circle in an open area such as a field, park, plaza or large room. Raise the camera so it’s higher than the heads and take a 360˚panorama.
If you leave a gap at one point in the circle to serve as ends, a flat version of the equirectangular panorama can be printed.
Judy
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car interior, with D700, 16-35. Questions!
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Re: car interior, with D700, 16-35. Questions!
Posted: 6 Mar 2012 at 2:46 GMT
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A fisheye lens is preferred for this task because it has greater depth of field and will require fewer shots. If you’re shooting outdoors, make sure to bracket exposures because there will be a large dynamic range between exterior scene and interior dark spaces.
If the car has a console between the front seats, you can sometimes use small travel tripod collapsed or a mini-tripod and set it on the console. You may be able to set a regular tripod on the seats.
A popular strategy is to extend a horizontal pole in through an open window. The pole is supported by one or two tripods outside the car. You will need counterweights to balance the rig.
Shoot from the opposite side of the vehicle to cover the “nadir shot” or main supporting-rig area.
See photos 35 to 38 to see Jook Leung demonstrate his technique at a panorama workshop.
public.fotki.com/haroldro/360-panoramic-photo/
What kind of panorama bracket are you using?
If you search this forum for ‘car interior’ or ‘horizontal pole’ you’ll find a number of discussions on the topic.
Judy
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Huble Homestead Historic Site Tour
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Re: Huble Homestead Historic Site Tour
Posted: 27 Feb 2012 at 19:06 GMT
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Hi Hopki,
Sorry for venting my frustrations on this forum before posting them on the P2VR forum.
Thanks very much for the help. I didn’t know about the text-editor roundtrip method. I’ve given it a test and can see that it could be a timesaver, even if viewing, deciphering and editing code is hardly a favorite pastime of mine.
Brace yourself for a flood of feature requests on on P2VR forum. 
Judy
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Re: Huble Homestead Historic Site Tour
Posted: 26 Feb 2012 at 21:51 GMT
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Hi Hopki,
I apologize for the misinformation.
I think where I went wrong was that I originally wanted the background color to change on rollover. When I couldn’t figure out how to make that happen with text blocks, I disabled the text background and used rectangles.
When I used stacked rectangles to change background colors, I didn’t get a functioning link to next panorama when clicking, probably because I wasn’t clicking directly on the letters.
I also wanted the hand cursor to display, which I don’t see with live text links.
I come from a background of using Macromedia and Adobe programs that have quite sophisticated find and replace tools, object alignment tools, rulers, guides, styles and hyperlink selection tools that make design work quick and efficient.
One of my greatest frustrations with Pano2VR is that I know of no way to find and replace a single attribute in multiple items at once. For example, if I had twelve text boxes, already set with links to the twelve different SWF files, I’d be unable to select all of them at once and change a single attribute such as color, or edit a single action. I plod through many dialog boxes to make the changes so that I don’t loose the link actions.
It would be great if Pano2VR could incorporate styles, similar to CSS style sheets that would allow the user to apply and edit common attributes.
Judy
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chromatic aberrations & 10.5mm vs 16mm lens
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Re: chromatic aberrations & 10.5mm vs 16mm lens
Posted: 24 Feb 2012 at 19:41 GMT
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lybarrondo said: I currently use a D200 with a 10.5 nikon lens and absolute head. I've always been happy with the sharpness of the images and ease of stitching. However, I get chromatic abberations with interior shots that have bright lights.
Nikon Capture NX2 does a good job of removing blue and purple fringing from RAW (NEF) images shot with the Nikon 10.5 mm fisheye. This test was shot on a Nikon D7000 at f2.8.
The fix: enable Axial Color Aberration in the Camera & Lens Corrections tab.
I recently purchased this lens so haven’t yet tried it on a wide variety of subject matter, but my tests so far show that CNX2 does a good job of removing purple fringing around window frames, halogen pot lights, and in specular highlights on chrome and glass.
Judy
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Re: Couple of Michigan Panoramas
Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 16:51 GMT
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Hi Mark,
Nice, sharp panos. I really like the red and white lighthouse against the blue sky.
Interesting weather. Didn’t you have some amazing ice storm panos from previous years? We’ve had a mild winter here too, with hardly any snow. I guess Europeans are getting all the pretty snow scenery this year.
Judy
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Best way to level the first shot?
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Re: Best way to level the first shot?
Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 16:23 GMT
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If you’re shooting spherical panoramas, it’s not necessary to level the rig. I never do. As long as there are some features in the scene that are known to be vertical, you can do all the leveling in stitching software. It’s much quicker!
Visualize the inside of beachball. That’s the surface you’re shooting when you make a spherical panorama. This spherical surface can be tilted or rolled in any direction and the relationship between all the parts remains exactly the same.
If you’re taking single-row cylindrical panoramas, then leveling is important so you don’t end up with a wavy pano and loose part of the scene by cropping to get a straight image. That said, I always shoot spherical these days. If I want to output a cylindrical image, I just crop a spherical pano.
Judy
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Re: HDR questions
Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 16:08 GMT
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I find that it is better to tonemap images with Photomatix before stitching. Because the detail is good in all areas of the images, they stitch quickly and accurately.
When dealing with dark building interiors and bright windows, you’ll probably find that your three-brackets sets don’t give you enough dynamic range. You can shoot twice with two different bracketing sets, but if your camera moves between sets, alignment for tonemapping will be compromised.
One technique I’ve been experimenting with is to separately tonemap two sets of images, one set for the interior and another set for the window scene and window frames. I load the two sets at once in Autopano Giga and stitch two layers. I then blend the two layers in Photoshop with layer masks. This method might be too time consuming for commercial real estate panos and complex windows.
Take a look at the Promote Control bracketing controller.
This tutorial by Ferrell McCollough may be useful in planning brackets.
beforethecoffee.com/bracketing-number-of-images/
There’s a lot to be said for learning by doing. You can’t expect to know everything in the beginning of this endeavor. Shoot sample panoramas in and around your home in varying lighting conditions and process the images. Learn how to get the best out of your camera and software.
Judy
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Re: Captian George Vancouver 360 Virtual Tour
Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 21:39 GMT
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markouk said: I shooting in JPEG format with a bracketed function. After I edit images in Photoshop Lightroom. I still not realize how RAW can be useful for me, coz don't see a big different in the final result.
Compare your twilight scene with the twilight street scene in this tour by www.Regal360.com. (Click on the large preview to view the tour.)
www.regal360.com/index.php/component/content/arti...
I think you’ll see how much more richness in color and detail is possible if you shoot RAW, bracketed and post-process.
Judy
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