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Re: Removing panohead in photoshop - fingals cave
Alessandro Ugazio 2006-Jun-19 21:57:00
--- In #removed#, "currour" <grant@...> wrote:
> I am sure there is a really easy answer to this
Well, frankly it's not quite a simple task.
You have to plan your shooting in order to have:
-two nadir shots (0 and 180) with panohead included
-at least one handheld nadir shot, having detached camera from head and having removed
the tripod from ground (In low light I prefer to bend 90 degrees the camera still attached
to the tripod and head, but I have a simplier head than yours...)
In Photoshop I merge the two nadir shots in order to get rid of the vertical bracket. At this
point I usually include this TIFF in source images in PTMac and do stitching, with Enblend
_flat_ output.
Then I drop the rendered equirectangular image into CubicConverter, it generates six
square images, I drag the bottom one into Photoshop and (after defishing my nadir
headless shot) I try to cover the panohead with that image.
CS2 has a nice freeform trasform wich helps you to distort a bit the image to fit it quickly.
Once done, just drag and drop it again on CubicConverter bottom image and remake the
QTVR.
Eric Rougier did a great QuickTime mov with all this and more.
<http://fromparis.com/video/make_a_quicktime_vr_in_10_mnts_english.mov>
I personally prefer to shoot also the two nadir-with-panohead shots because the gap to
cover will be smaller, and my handheld shots are almost always moving!
> Any help would be greatly appreciated - the pano in question is at Fingals cave in Staffa
Very interesting cave! Can you post a GoogleEarth bookmark, please?
Hi
Alessandro Ugazio