
Composite of 4 images taken with a Nikon D3x and 24 mm PC-E lens (ISO 100, 24 mm, f/16, 1/100 sec).
PTGUI VS PHOTOSHOP CS5 PRO
Panorama created using AutoPano Giga Pro 9294 x 7337 pixels Panorama from Dantes View, Death Valley National Park. Panorama created using PTGui 7816 x 6812 pixels Panorama from Dantes View, Death Valley National Park. Panorama from Dantes View in Death Valley National Park. The four images were acquired with a Nikon D3x camera and 24 mm f/3.5 PC-E lens (ISO 100, 24 mm, f/16, 1/100 sec). Notice the snow from the previous storm under the cactus in the foreground. Photoshop CS5 was not able to successfully process the images into a panorama view.

During a recent Nikonians Academy Workshop in Death Valley, I took several images from Dante’s View that I have now processed with Autopano Giga and PTGui. Day 5: Death Valley Spring 2011 Photography Workshop with Michael Mariant.Ĭomparison of Panorama Programs. There are several commercial programs that will combine digital images to provide panorama views.

Once you have your person or object on a new layer, hide the other layers and clean up the selection to remove unwanted areas.Gone to See California. Don’t worry if you have a little extra selected, you can erase this in the new layer later. Once you have the person, or object, selected create a new layer by copy. I will not go over the best way to select in PS so use whatever method you are comfortable with. Now that the file is open in PS I will zoom in on my people and start selecting them using the selection tools. HINT: You can right click on it in source images and select Open Containing Folder to find the file easily. For example I want to mask out the person in the white shirt and mask in the person in the black shirt First thing I need to do is find out what source image is being used, to do this I will show seams in PTGui Head over to my source images and I can see that Image 19 is _ECB7850.tif Now I need to open this file in Photoshop to create my mask. This technique is good for masking people in or out of a sphere as it allows you to exactly select what you want to mask. The solution: Photo shop, or your preferred image editor. I have found several times when I need to get precise masking of an object in a source image in PTGui when creating a photo sphere but the masking tools in PTGui just are not accurate enough and can be difficult to control unless you have a steady hand.

PTGUI VS PHOTOSHOP CS5 HOW TO
I also assume a certain level of knowledge on how to use the software but if there is anything you don’t understand or would like more details on feel free to leave a comment or contact me through the contact page and I will gladly try to help.
PTGUI VS PHOTOSHOP CS5 WINDOWS
Note on this post: I created this using PTGui and PhotoShop on a Windows computer but the techniques should work with other editing software on other platforms, though the menu options may be different.
