thanks for the demo - not something I've ever looked at before. I shoot most of my panos on a levelled tripod and with a nodal rail these days, but this was useful all the same :-)
wow, really cool technique and beautiful Tre Cime shot :) thanks for sharing. I have noticed that you are using TK8 panel, do you please plan any review of it? I'm deciding between it and thepropanel, not sure how to choose correctly :) thanks
Hi Tomas, first of all, thanks for the comment, glad you found the video interesting. Correct, that's the TK panel version 8, and I've been using it since version 1. I love it and it's my favorite one ever. Another wonderful panel is Lumenzia, with more minimalistic interface, but equally very powerful. I'm not sure about making a video review on luminosity mask panels, but I have definitely some cool stuff about luminosity masks to put on the channel soon :)
Andrea, thanks for the tutorial. I have been shooting panoramas and using the warp function. I have found that my panoramas have a lower image quality than the original images. I'm not sure if that is due to the warp function which stretches and squeezes the different areas of the image. When I import one of the individual photos as a new layer to repair errors in the pano, I have found that the individual photo is much sharper when I zoom in. Have you found this to be true? I'm curious if you compared your pano using the perspective warp with the individual photos whether you would discover the same thing. I have not seen anybody address this in any of the panorama tutorials. I'm curious if this is an issue with Photoshop or if it is a user problem (me). Curious about your or anyone else's thoughts. The purpose of making a panorama in the first place is to try to get megapixel sharp images when enlarged.
Hi, thanks so much for the comment. Glad you found the video useful. Sometimes you might find your stitched panorama a little bit soft in some areas due to the image warping. This may happen when you stitch multiple wide-angle shots rather than mid/tele-shots. It can be helpful to add a gentle extra sharpening layer in photoshop locally, just on the softer areas. I wouldn't suggest applying it globally to avoid unnecessary oversharpening.
Hi Paul, glad you enjoyed the video. The video is more about panorama distortion correction in Photoshop rather than pano-stitching, so I kept the focus on that. Thanks so much for commenting, much appreciated! :) Ciao
