cybrbeast opened this issue on Dec 30, 2003 ยท 6 posts
cybrbeast posted Tue, 30 December 2003 at 1:08 PM
This is my first try at realistic photo manipulation. A friend of mine took a series of panorama shots at our high school (6th year) prank. But it had many ugly seems and stuff. Here it is: http://annom85.tripod.com/christo/fotos/internet/panorama.jpg it's our former school, which me and a couple of friends wrapped up. I want to make a poster out of it so I've tried to fix the seems etc. I think it worked quite well. I even removed the person at the right of the above picture. I mostly used the clone stamp, magnetic lasso and image balance tools. http://home.wanadoo.nl/panthon/blog/pics/superpanorama.jpg (1,5MB) What do you guys think? Any tips?
Hoofdcommissaris posted Tue, 30 December 2003 at 3:41 PM
It came out rather good? Didn't it? I would try to get, like, the grass to have one color over the whole picture. Maybe by making a selection and replacing the color, or by recreating the grass based on one particular piece. But that would be trial and error. Adjustment layers with mask might work. The main point always should be if people who don't know would, well, have a clue that stitching has been practised. In this case, most of the people who enjoyed the prank will look at it as a sufficient recording of the event. And not see the photoshopping.
dreamer101 posted Tue, 30 December 2003 at 6:19 PM
Photoshop CS has a nice photomerge feature great for things like that. I would play with Curves (Ctrl-M) on each image before putting them together.
Heronheart posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 11:32 AM
A couple tips on doing panoramas by "hand". 1) Keep everthing on seperate layers as long as possible. 2) To line up your layers, set your top layer to "Difference" mode and adjust position, size and shape until the overlapping region looks as black as possible. 3) Once your layers are lined up, add a "layer mask" to your top layer and use a large soft airbrush with black color to erase the seam. 4) If your photo's were taken one after another, most of the color difference can be taken care of with a "Levels" command or adjustment layer clipped to the layer you're working on. Hope that helps, - Ken Heronheart -
RubiconDigital posted Thu, 01 January 2004 at 6:28 PM
Attached Link: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/stitching.shtml
This is a pretty good tutorial on doing it by hand in Photoshop.
cybrbeast posted Fri, 02 January 2004 at 12:26 AM
Thanks for the help guys.