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Re: Panorama functions in PS CS5?
Posted: 20 Jul 2010 at 11:51 GMT
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hi henri!
in the layers panel, just open the texture with a double click, which is in fact a smart object. save as a copy to another location and you're done 
jagginess comes from openGL display and depends on the gfx card you have installed. the texture image itself is normal good photoshop quality.
hth
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thomas
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Re: Manfrotto 338 experience?
Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 10:25 GMT
updated: 17 Jul 2010 at 10:27 GMT
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i only can second trausti: return it and get the nn ez leveler.
the manfrotto is bulky and heavy.
having both, only the nodal ninja is used
and: you can get it with an indexer too. the manfrotto indexer also is bulky, very heavy _and_ imprecise.
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thomas
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Posted: 6 Jul 2010 at 12:13 GMT
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yes. what's done in the workflow i outlined above with the zenit/nadir smart objects can be done with every other kind of layer.
be sure to rasterize text layers before merging down the layer into the 3d sphere.
this will show up correctly distorted in the equirectangular image which lives in the 3d layer as the sphere's texture.
hope this helps
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thomas
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Re: Panorama functions in PS CS5?
Posted: 5 Jul 2010 at 21:57 GMT
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as i'm an adobe beta tester and a panoramic enthusiast as well, i dived into the panorama abilities of photoshop cs4 and cs5 intensively.
so allow some remarks:
- related to panorama treatment nearly nothing changed from cs4 to cs5.
- photoshop isn't able to "think" around the 360 to 0 degree border. so a cylindrical pano must be closed manually (see below)
- photoshop cannot "think" around the +/- 90 degree points (zenit + nadir). the only way to work on the spheric poles is with the 3d function, wrapping the panorama on a sphere.
- the 3d function are available only in the extended version of photoshop
- all images require great capture precision (well calibrated pano tripod head), sufficient overlap and enough image features on *all* images. one featureless image (blank sky) can kill the whole process.
- do not use fisheyes. against any content shown about this in the help files fisheye will *not work at all* for panoramas in photoshop.
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short outline of the only possible spherical photoshop-only workflow (without any details):
- the only way to produce a spherical pano is with wide angle photos (multi row pano)
- do not (!) try to stitch any zenit or nadir image, only the horizontal row and the tilted rows. set them aside for later.
- do not blend the first 3 rows. you often need to shift images from left to right edge of the pano.
- then blend
- then you need to close the pano first to a seamless 360 deg pano:
-- divide the pano at an arbitrary position into two parts
-- put each part on a separate layer
-- flip right and left part
-- position the parts so that the overlap is fitting (use upper layer in diffence mode)
-- go back to normal layer mode and blend these two parts
- crop at the previously made division
- add height under "canvas size" to a exact 2:1 size ratio
- add solid layer (i use black) under the two pano layers
- merge visible layers to a new one
- wrap this layer on a 3d-sphere
- turn the pano sphere straight up. you see the hole.
- load zenit image as a smart object above the 3d layer with the pano spere.
- resize, rotate, distort, warp the zenit image to make it fit with the image content around the hole.
- make a soft layer mask
- when it fits, merge down the smart object layer with the masked zenit image *into* the 3d-sphere.
- do the same with the nadir.
- clone stamp and all retouch tool work inside the sphere, and the new content aware tools too, which is great.
- due to openGL errors there are a few pixels left at the sphere pole which aren't editable. you see a little "star".
- open the sphere texture to see the complete equirectangular image and save it to a new location.
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- if you own photoshop extended and no special pano software, go the way shown above.
- if you own a reasonable pano sw like autodesk stitcher, ptgui etc., simply forget photoshop for stitching.
- photoshop's blending and treatment of ghost images is far beyond it's stitching quality and awesome. so if you have problems with blending in e.g. ptgui, save pano from there as "photoshop (layered)" and blend it in photoshop to get perfect results.
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thomas
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Re: Photoshop CS5 anyone?
Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 12:31 GMT
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usually "launch" isn't the release date in adobe's speak, as we've seen at former cs'es.
most likely they will announce release date, pricing scheme and availability on 12.04.2010 and show the main features of the cs apps.
thomas
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Re: Canon 5D MKII or 7D with 8mm Fisheye
Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 12:27 GMT
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hi arameus!
i usually get about 11k x 5k5 out of ptgui with 4 shots (eventually one extra ground shot, if the ground has significant, not easily retouchable features) with my 7D / sigma 8mm / agnos ringt combo (slanted mode). for fullscreen view i'm downsizing to 7k2 x 3k6 od 8k x 4k and get a satisfying quality.
hope this helps
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thomas
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Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 11:38 GMT
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hi arameus!
some remarks to your questions:
- with 8mm sigma you get a far better resolution with 7d than with 5dmk2:
-- 5dmk2: complete circle inside short dimension of frame about 40% of the image is black (3 shots needed)
-- 7D: small black corners, about 110 deg inside short dimension, about 170 deg vertical in portrait mode (4 shots needed)
best price / efficiency / resolution / image count solution:
7D @ sigma 8mm with a ring solution (360p atome, nn r1/r10 or agnos ringT8s) slanted 30 deg left (180 deg vertical) 4 images needed.
if tilted up 5 deg you don't need a zenit shot, only a 10 deg hole for nadir is to be retouched.
ef 15mm ff fisheye is known as a sharp lens. massive resolution with 5dmk2.
hope this helps
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thomas
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Google Earth Panos...The "Do's and Don'ts"
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Posted: 23 Feb 2010 at 7:49 GMT
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hi james,
i don't have a legal background too, but have some experience with just this issues.
i made a tutorial about making a spherical pano from GE screenshots for the 3d pano chapter of my book about panoramic photography (panoramabuch.com).
unsure about the legal situation i tried to get in contact with google legal staff.
they did like the idea very much, but there is _no_ way to publish any material derived from GE imagery.
main reason is that google itself only licensed the image material from a lot of different satellite and aerial image providers. there is only a license from them to google to use the material in google maps (on their site or embedded) and in GE. google isn't extending the licenses to the end users for their use or for editing/derivative purposes, not even with re-inserting the copyright marks.
to make a long story short: it's fun, but it's not allowed at all 
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thomas
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Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 19:06 GMT
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interesting approach...
will there be a mac version of the tour builder? couldn't discover one.
is there only a demo of the player available? not for fusiongui?
same here as terry stated: endless waiting for hires version of the panos
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Posted: 23 Nov 2009 at 10:43 GMT
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due to significant interest we're indeed thinking about an english version.
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Comprehensive Book about Panoramic Photography in German
Posted: 21 Nov 2009 at 16:13 GMT
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i'm very happy to announce my recent production: the most comprehensive book on the german speaking market about panoramic photography: "Praxisbuch Digitale Panoramafotografie".
on 368 full color pages i give a complete overview about the whole digital panoramic workflow with the following main items:
• panorama types and capturing
• hardware (camera, lenses, tropod heads, nodal point adjustment etc.
• stitching software
• a big chapter with several detailed step-by-step-workshops from beginner level up to problematic shootings using professional tricks
• in depth chapters about conversions and retouching
• detailed workshops for output as interactive panoramas (quicktime, flash, java)
• chapters covering print output and hdr
all workshop materials and all used software (open source and demos) are included on the book companion dvd.
bonus: one hour video training with related photoshop topics (photomerge, raw, hdr).
the book has a permanently growing companion website: panoramabuch.com . here you can preview the books content and see interactive examples of the panoramas created in the books workshops. a blog and tips-tricks-tutorials section will provide additional up-to-date information about digital panoramic photography.
the books price is 39.90 euros. it's available since 2nd november 2009 in all bookstores, directly from the editor (bit.ly/panobook_gal) or from amazon (bit.ly/panobook_amz).
thanks for your kind attention
thomas bredenfeld
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