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I love your panos in Cuba. With people walking, How did you avoid getting them in the next shot if they were walking in the direction you were rotating ? I know you can save images as transparencies and erase doubled people but that is a bit tedious. Did you wait for them to walk out of the next frame? Gil Thanks for your new forum and I am sure that it will get a lot of use. |
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Hi Gil There are several ways to avoid the same person to be shown in more than one place on your panoramas. The easiest way (to me at least) is to have your panorama file (the equirectangular file) saved as a layered file. I'm using PTGui to produce these files. The program is able to export images to Photoshop’s native format with layers. Each photo you have included in the pano will be exported as a layer in the Photoshop file. From within PS you can then map out the areas (people) you would like to get rid of. There is a brilliant example at http://www.ptgui.com/examples/postprocessing/ I know the above is suggesting specific tools. I hope that it can help you anyway. Kind regards Michael |
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When you take the shots you have to ensure that at least one of the shots does not have a person or object in the same position each time, they don't have to be totally out of frame but just not covering the same area as in the previous shot. Then when you come to blend the individual shots together you only include the areas where people /objects do not exist ! Geoff |
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Overlap and time are your friends. In most cases, just waiting between shots for people to move is enough. The most difficult moving subject are those that are slow moving in place. If you are shooting wide (e.g. 8mm), that's about it: the more overlap, the easier. When post processing, display the warped overlapping images as layers in an image editor to mask out the unwanted ghosts, then export the layers to your blending tool. If you're shooting tele and no single shot can frame the moving subject, you'll have to wait for it to move away or get back to it later and retouch manually. The most difficult situation of this kind I found were moored boats for a 200mm shot. I ended up taking a reference shot at 8mm, blowing it up, and move the boat parts manually in place. |
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Whether you are waiting during the shooting process, or taking the time to mask out unwanted extras, perfect panoramas almost always require a great deal of patience. Don't rush it, and don't be afraid of the tedious bits if you want to achieve perfection. |
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Retouching the people in PS by using the stamp-tool is the last possibility. |
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I've had a lot of success using the SmartBlend plug-in via PTgui. http://wiki.panotools.org/SmartBlend |
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Are you aware that hugin now has a build-in mask functionality? No need for PhotoShop anymore to get rid of ghosts. |
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