Sorry for being MIA!!! We're in a 4 month lockdown in Sydney right now which has kept me busy making new videos for my Virtual Tour Pro course AND buying waaaaaaay too many house plants 😅
All the best to you and the rest of Australia. Thanks for this video. I’m just starting to concentrate on 360 work and your content has been invaluable.
Thanks again, Mr Ben! I went with the Lightroom + TouchRetouch workflow, and it works great. I bought the desktop version of TouchRetouch and it makes it really simple to remove imperfections (and the tripod). Thanks for the video!
Good to see you online. Love watching your videos you always provide inspiration. By the way I love retouch. I did not know though it’s available on the Mac? I’ll have to look into that
Hi Ben, we just went on a trip to Europe and I took a handful of 360 photos with my GoPro Max. I want to be able to show them to my wife's grandma on a cheap pair of VR goggles (the ones that just hold your phone). She has never been there and we thought it would be a cool way for her to see the cities. What app do you recommend for doing something super simple like this? I previously just uploaded them to my Google Drive and used Google Cardboard, but I was wondering if you had a better solution. Thanks.
Thanks Ben, and welcome back! Use LrC and have had Affinity Photo for some time. Will now switch to Affinity in my 360 workflow exclusively. Too bad about Photoshop, especially since they have made a pretty good version for the iPad as well. Did not know about the newly minted Ricoh Theta stitcher either - your info is a timely lifesaver. Thanks again!
Wonderful video. I have watched it several times over. In January 2023, I’m struggling to find software and a workflow to merge down text and images into 360 photos (properly within the equirectangular spherical plane). I’m aware I can do this on the Kuula platform, but I don’t think I can export the revised 360 photos with merged down text and images off the platform. Or perhaps I can? I’m struggling to find the detail and the answers.
Really great job on this video. Now... Can you please consider creating a YT video on your 360 video workflow? Given that insta360 studio doesn't let you add music or stitch multiple clips together like the phone version does, I'd like to know what video editor(s) you use and go from the taking of video to the completed reframed video stories with music... workflow! :)
Thank you this is fantastic work around!!!!! Thank you so much! I was so upset when photoshop has taking it away from its programs and I need it for my drone images.
Hi,, can you do a video on what you need starting out (complete equipment and software) with options for cheaper, expensive and more expensive (or god, better, best if you prefer!). That would be great as I am looking to start out in the New Year (after we have moved house!). Thanks
Great Vid.. I'm trying the workflow, and the Affinity is much quicker than PS for sure! Guess I will have to learn it for just the 360 photos. After I do the brush I can't find how to get the arrow to look around the 360 photo again.. I'm stuck there, but I'm sure I'm just blind.
Thanks Ben. Would you recommend using Affinity to do extreme 360 photo editing? Your tutorial is perfect for simple tripod removal, just wondered if there's an alternative for anything more advanced - for example if you need to combine elements from multiple 360 photos? Or paste in content from a images that aren't 360. Appreciate your advice. Thanks again 😀
@@MaxFriz hi Max, I'm still looking for options. There are some apps but they look more aimed painting than photo editing. Please let me know if you if you find anything 😊
@@voodoomotion5855Will do. I’ll reply here if I learn anything. I logged into the Affinity Photo User Forum this afternoon and posted a similar request (relevant to their newest release Affinity Photo 2). I’m overly optimistic their latest release supports exactly what we are looking for … will be exploring this in the upcoming days and will let you know. I am upgrading from Affinity v1.x to 2 regardless.
I bought Affinity Photo so I could draw boundaries on 360 panoramas, but I've noticed that the line will bow somewhat. I use a Phantom 4 pro to shoot my 360s. The top of the panorama stretches together somewhat when the 360 is stitched together. My workflow is color correct raw images, stitch the panorama (using Panorama Studio Pro to stitch them) and then add the boundary lines of the property. My theory is that the stretched part on the ceiling of the panorama is causing the boundary lines to bow. I was thinking about adding in a blue line (matched to the sky) so that the total height of the photo will level out that bowed boundary line. Any thoughts about that?
Hi Ben. Thank you for the update with editing on Photoshop. I will share my workflow of getting rid of tripod in PS. I flip the equirectangular 180 degree horizontal axis and have it distort with “polar coordinate.” After I finish erasing tripod, I will reverse the procedure and export. There is less freedom in setting perspective, but it works quick enough for getting rid of tripod. Stay safe :)
Hi thanks for the great video , I have one question. Every time I turn on a new layer of spherical panorama, the photo darkens by about 3EV. It is then wrong to edit. Do you know where the problem could be? Thanks a lot
Thanks Ben, I have been using Affinity Photo too and it works properly for 360 images. Another alternative that I found for 360 photo editing is installing the previous version of Photoshop. Adobe allows to install more than one PS version in the same computer, so I kept the current version and installed the previous one: version 21.2.11. In the previous PS version the 3D functions are working properly, what makes me thinking if it is really a software GPU issue, or maybe an Adobe marketing strategy to sell new software packages. Anyway thanks again for sharing new alternatives.
Hello thank you for the channel! A quick question I want to do 360 photos, I have a 360X3. Is everything you mentioned in this video still apply. Thanks
Hey Ben, Problem i have with Affinity Foto, if you color correct or create a HDR from the stichted fotos , then its not seamless anymore on the borders you have then a line, any ideas how to fix that ?
I joined. Your tier with just shooting 360 interiors was all I needed. I live in Pymble and once this bloody lockdown is over (you know, 2029), then I will be doing more 360 (I have the Insta360 One X2). BTW I like this level best as I have no plans to earn a lviing doing this; just fun (I spent 45 years as a software developer, so that's enough work). Looking foreward to running into you filming 360 at the Opera House or Harbour Bridge! ;0)))
Great tutorial. So, I was wondering. Have you tried recently to do this with the new Photoshop 2022, specifically trying to stack DNG night shots taken with the One X2? When I stack the DNG, i get some awful seams throughout the image. Thank you, Rick
Yo up Ben Good 2 see your alive & kicking How’s Mic doing Been a few years Not much 360 ere anymore Went to the sky & dropped into v long telephoto when I grounded Have things improved in 360 YK
Great background music choice!! I always watch ur videos once they're published. But idk why RU-vid has never recommended them to me. I have to manually search for yr channel.
Can you share your export setting from Lr that allow you to go to Affinity? I get my images perfect but once exporting and going to Affinity I'm getting a black line above the tripod feet. I've tried exporting as jpg or png, also r=tried just saving the LR edits to the dng metadata and none will pull through to affinity correctly.
Im having a really hard time with my project. I can't figure out how to stitch my photos.. already edited the DNGs on Lightroom and exported as DNG. now I just need to stitch them so I can go on METAREAL to build my virtual tour.. what am I doing wrong! :(
That's so sad to hear. I've been using Adobe for so long and lately they're not doing so great.... People are running away from Premiere and now I see a trend of people coming out of Photoshop. We'll see how they react. I gotta try one these you recommended tho.
Thank you for this. Could you tell me please the best software for creating titles and labels for the panos. I have an old version of PS and Final Cut Pro.
Thanks for replying. No, I meant best software for 360 panos to add titles, descriptions, icons, effects etc. to 360 images without using a Virtual Tour provider. If a 360 video I know I can add titles and effects in FCP.@@BenClaremont
Hi Ben! When I received your newsletter about this issue, I panicked! I'm churning out around 40 tours a month and dont have time to sit too long on a project. So glad you put this video out, will definitely be giving Affinity a go. My current workflow is this. 1 1. Insta360 to Equirectangular 2. Lightroom for chromatic abberation 3. SNS HDR ( fantastic for taking my bracketed 360 images and find the results better than Lightroom once you've got the settings where you want them ) 4. Topaz Sharpen which is ideal for the Insta360 images as the camera produces fairly soft results. 5. Photoshop for and reflection or object issues ( clearly not going to replace with Affinity! ). Thanks for the videos and keep them coming!!
Hi Ben - Not used affinity yet. One thing I use PS for is to add an image (logo) over the stand nadir as a layer and merge down, then export (as per your previous explainer video showing how to do this and add text using PS). I assume affinity can do this?
Hey Ben, quick question, when editing in Lightroom I always ran into a hard line along the equirectangular edge when using the highlight/shadow sliders. Apparently this was because LR estimates what a shadow is by looking at pixels around it. To fix this I've had to make the photos 2x wider. Do you run into this editing 360 photos straight out of camera in LR or have they fixed the issue?
Is this still the best way to edit 360 photos? I am going to get the free trial of Affinity pro 2 but apparently it's on sale for half off so if I am still unable to use light room for everything then I might pull the trigger on the purchase.
@@BenClaremont I ran into a problem with stitching drone shots in Lightroom and was having trouble finding a fix. I am learning all sorts of terminology so I guess that’s a good thing. I need my photo to be merged Equirectangular(ly?) and Lightroom only does spherical. Which stitches my photos still but makes it look like I am inside of a fishbowl when viewing in Affinity
Same with photoshop- the reason is that they are complex programs and it’s not easy to translate that to a simple mobile phone experience… well not yet anyway 😀
@@BenClaremont My first thought was that this software was available ONLY for ipad. Apologizing that :) will download a trial version for pc. You and mic ty has alwas been my inspirations💪
Thank you for this quick and great video. Adobe has become a giant mess. For 20+ years, Photoshop was solid. No bugs... but now, it even has crashing bugs. Before PS had 360 editing, I used Mudbox... but Affinity sounds good, I'll try it out. Would love to have another option from PS.
Hi Ben and All people in here, I really need your help as I really new to this 360 scene. I plan buy RICOH THETA S (someone sell it for VERY CHEAP PRICE), and my plan to use it as my new tool to capture Ultrawide shot for my work project, which using that 360 capability (while addition will have a 360 photo of the project location). My problem is I planned to capture a certain angle of it the 360 area, can Affinity Photo do that? like for example I just want to capture a frame scene on 04:40, slighly zoom out, then export it just that frame. I know Theta S is lower resolution and doing that will had lower image resolution, but I can upscale the captured scene using Topaz Gigapixel at the end. So anyone can help me?
i was chatting with adobe product managers and was like, fella, wtf? they’re hoping to re-earn users back with next gen software that will run lightening fast on next gen hardware aka m1, AMD, and NVIDIA gpus.
Adobe's reasoning doesn't make sense. Sure, developers will get better machine-specific performance through a GPU API than Open GL. but why would that make Open GL worse? If it ran fine on older hardware, it ought to run as well or likely better on new hardware.
@@roystevenson9632 takes seconds. Literally. I plonk the camera down in many places and create a ton of images fast. Cycle through them to pull the best group and then quickly correct them. 30 second frame, 30-60 second colour correct. I discover loads and learn stuff every time I shoot like this. Setting up one shot for 5 mins seems a bit mad to me. Unless you being paid of course lol. The happy accidents that come along are great with 360
@@BenClaremont They've sold you a subscription including 3D capability, then take it away and expect you to pay more to regain it within another package?
That’s not what they’re doing though. As I mentioned it was a GPU issue and those other products are not for 360 editing. They are definitely losing $$$ not gaining it with this change.
