June 2005
Beginner to intermediate
96 pages
1h 40m
English
Content preview from Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook
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1.4. Stage 4
1.4.1. Cropping and corrections
I re-cropped the entire panorama to eliminate the parts I didn't want, then flattened the final image.
Be careful—once an image is flattened, there's no going back. It's a good idea to first save the image with all its layers in PSD format.
The resulting image was 29.5 × 13.7 in. (75 × 35 cm) at 300 dpi. I had to change this to a 1:3 ratio for the assignment, so I cropped it to 29.5 × 9.8 in. (75 × 25 cm). The resulting file size was big enough that I could create a banner-sized digital print (8 × 25 ft. or 2.7 × 7.5 m) for an outdoor display.
I copied the background, created a new layer, then used the Clone Stamp tool to eliminate some dust that showed up on the camera's CCD sensor. I also had to erase a few water droplets; water in the ice cave had dripped onto the protruding 14mm lens, despite my efforts to protect it.
The Shadow/Highlight command sliders.
The resulting photograph was beginning to look the way I'd hoped. All I had to do now was adjust the color. I then called on Photoshop CS's powerful Shadow/Highlight tool, which made it easy to correct under- and over-exposed areas.
Lighten
Fix water droplets
Remove overall cyan cast
Dust marks
Water droplets
Dust marks
Remove overall cyan cast
Lighten
Lighten
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