SPLflyer
lvl.4
Flight distance : 144829 ft
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In my opinion the program &aposanoramaStudio 3 Pro', in combination with the really good raw pano photos of the Air, has the best (and simplest!) conditions for a high-quality pano. My workflow (with a not too differentiated, mainly blue sky) goes like this:
1. PanoramaStudio 3 Pro imports Air-DNGs, but distorts them in color, so I first open the 25 DNG photos in Photoshop (Camera Raw with initial pre-sharpening) and then save them as 16Bit TIFFs for PanoramaStudio 3 Pro.
2. Select multi-row Pano in PanoramaStudio 3 Pro and import the 25 TIFFs. After calculating the panorama, drag the red cropping frame up to the top edge of the image to capture the entire image, including the empty sky.
3. Save this image as TIFF and open it again in Photoshop. Use the 'rectangle selection tool' (I don't know the exact english terms, because my PS is german ) to mark the empty sky area (including the arched sky edges).
4. Select the 'Fill area...' function under 'Edit' and fill the empty area 'Content-based'. The result can be further refined with the 'Stamp' and 'Repair tool'.
5. Finally I reduce the image size under PS to approx. 40% (~7480px x 3740px, absolutely sufficient!) and refine the Pano before saving it with different filters (sharpness, colors, tonal value, white balance).
6. Import the finished TIFF-Pano into PanoramaStudio 3 Pro as a 'panorama image' and save it as an 'interactive pano', screensaver or EXE file in the final step. Ready!
If you leave the JPG quality in P3P for the interactive Pano at the default 'normal', the total amount of data to be uploaded to your own web space is approx. 7 MB. Previously, one can smooth the zenith tiles in Photoshop a little to soften the abutting edges of the webpano. And... who looks so closely at the zenith? The result can then look something like this:
http://www.ikarus-webspace.de/content/Pano/Bobzin_Airport.html
(I was allowed to start here, because the plane belongs to me and the airfield belongs to our club! )
Of course you can also view the pano locally on your Windows PC - either in your browser, or as a self-running EXE file.
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