June 2005
Beginner to intermediate
96 pages
1h 40m
English
Content preview from Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook
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7.6. Stage 6
7.6.1. Retouching the zenith and the nadir
Among other things, CubicConverter lets you take a projection created by Panotools and apply it to the faces of a cube, which are easier to retouch. The program is quite intuitive to use. Drag the retouched picture into the conversion window, select the Conversion tab, and in the Convert to dropdown menu, select Cube Face Images and click the Convert button. After clicking on the Cube Faces tab, choose the top face of the cube on the left and drag the image into the folder on the desktop.
Selecting the face
In Photoshop, use the Clone Stamp and Patch tools to retouch the center of the picture, then re-save the picture under the same name.
Original Picture
CubicConverter is a very handy program that
can convert panoramic files into a variety of formats.
Back in CubicConverter, choose the bottom face of the cube and drag the image into the work folder. While you're at it, do the same for all of the other faces of the cube, even if they don't need any retouching. You'll get six TIF files named in this format: xx_f.tif, xx_r.tif, xx_b.tif, xx_l.tif, xx_r.tif, xx_d.tif, xx_u.tif.
The sky in the picture was relatively uniform, so the zenith shot can be retouched with just Photoshop tools. That wasn't the case for the nadir, however. For that, we are going to need the extra picture I took.
Dragging the folder
7.6.2. Preparing the "view D" image
Open the d.tif image in Photoshop and crop it to the same square format as in Stage ...
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