Help needed on a panorama.

[GoingUp]

Well Photoshop CS3 has choked on this for most of the night. It grabbed 3.5 gigs of ram and ran up a 31gig page file.

Heres what I have so far. http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/g...grs/PanoHelpNeeded.jpg

It's 85 shots of Annapurna 3 at 147mm. The total size is about 48000 x 12000. As you can see, I'm missing large pieces of sky. Whats the best way to add those in?

What I want to do is tell photoshop to blend all of the layers together first because thats not done yet. Then I basically want to select the blank areas, and fill them with the same sky as below the blank areas. I know the patch tool can do that, but it tries to blend and then things don't look the greatest.

Any suggestions?

 

[TheChort]

cut/copy these areas then move them over the way the arrows are pointing. Try to get the pieces as big as possible.
Once you place them on the empty area (make sure there is plenty of overlap with the non-empty areas) get the eraser tool and set it on its softest border and you might even consider dropping the opacity to 50% or so. Then start erasing the overlapped areas until they blend in.

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[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: TheChort
cut/copy these areas then move them over the way the arrows are pointing. Try to get the pieces as big as possible.
Once you place them on the empty area (make sure there is plenty of overlap with the non-empty areas) get the eraser tool and set it on its softest border and you might even consider dropping the opacity to 50% or so. Then start erasing the overlapped areas until they blend in.

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I dont want to move stuff to the left or right. I want to move it from the bottom up.

Look at the areas just below the blank spaces. See how the sky is a different color? Its a lot lighter. Thats part of my problem. If everything was dark blue, it would be easy to fix.

 

[TheChort]

ok, cut the pieces however you like
The idea is still the same. The key is to use a soft brush when you're erasing so the borders aren't obvious.

 

[TheChort]

Also, if you're familiar with masking, I'd recommend masking the copied layers out instead of erasing them altogether, since it's easier to correct mistakes that way.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

You can do what the others have said, or you could also Free Transform existing pieces of sky.

Take a marquee tool (rectangular works best), selection a good chunk of sky, select Free Transform, and simply resize the selected sky so that it covers the blank areas. You're lucky that you were missing sky and that it's fairly detail-less.

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
You can do what the others have said,

how many people do you think I am?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: TheChort

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
You can do what the others have said,

how many people do you think I am?

Exactly 2.356434680964636

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: TheChort

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
You can do what the others have said,

how many people do you think I am?

Exactly 2.356434680964636

Are you sure about that? I would have said he/she's approximately 3.1415926535897932384626433832795.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Fardringle

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: TheChort

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
You can do what the others have said,

how many people do you think I am?

Exactly 2.356434680964636

Are you sure about that? I would have said he/she's approximately 3.1415926535897932384626433832795.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! The pi is a lie!

 

[GoingUp]

Man,

I just deleted a ton of crap off my computer, and photoshop still can't handle the panorama. It runs up a 60 gig page file trying to blend the damn thing. I actually need to go buy a second hard drive just so I can complete and flatten this friggin thing!

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Man,

I just deleted a ton of crap off my computer, and photoshop still can't handle the panorama. It runs up a 60 gig page file trying to blend the damn thing. I actually need to go buy a second hard drive just so I can complete and flatten this friggin thing!

I would really consider using the demo of Autopano Pro. Looks like Photoshop isn't the most efficient at doing panos...

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Man,

I just deleted a ton of crap off my computer, and photoshop still can't handle the panorama. It runs up a 60 gig page file trying to blend the damn thing. I actually need to go buy a second hard drive just so I can complete and flatten this friggin thing!

I would really consider using the demo of Autopano Pro. Looks like Photoshop isn't the most efficient at doing panos...

Seriously. You might wanna try a couple free/demo programs before you go spending $100+

Unless you really want another HD of course

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: TheChort

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Man,

I just deleted a ton of crap off my computer, and photoshop still can't handle the panorama. It runs up a 60 gig page file trying to blend the damn thing. I actually need to go buy a second hard drive just so I can complete and flatten this friggin thing!

I would really consider using the demo of Autopano Pro. Looks like Photoshop isn't the most efficient at doing panos...

Seriously. You might wanna try a couple free/demo programs before you go spending $100+

Unless you really want another HD of course

I need a new HD anyways. I picked up a 500GB drive for $97 at Circuit City.

 

[GoingUp]

Good Christ. Photoshop ran up a 350 gig page file blending the layers last night. It took all of last night to convert too! The blending looks pretty good except parts of the sky, and when I zoom in now, the landscape looks blurry :| Before the blend it was crystal clear..... I might have to check out some other products....

 

[FriedToast]

I have NO clue how it would go w/ your current project, but I've used PTGui for years and think it's pretty darn good. Might want to give it a whirl and see if it's worth your time. I've never done anything w/ 85 shots, so can't tell you if it'll bloat out or not. Normally running, it's a pretty snappy program.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: FriedToast
I have NO clue how it would go w/ your current project, but I've used PTGui for years and think it's pretty darn good. Might want to give it a whirl and see if it's worth your time. I've never done anything w/ 85 shots, so can't tell you if it'll bloat out or not. Normally running, it's a pretty snappy program.

All of my 85 shots are raw... going to be a PITA to convert them all.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs

Originally posted by: FriedToast
I have NO clue how it would go w/ your current project, but I've used PTGui for years and think it's pretty darn good. Might want to give it a whirl and see if it's worth your time. I've never done anything w/ 85 shots, so can't tell you if it'll bloat out or not. Normally running, it's a pretty snappy program.

All of my 85 shots are raw... going to be a PITA to convert them all.

http://www.fuzzybabybunny.com/tutorials/panorama1.html

This is my tutorial for panos. Note though that Hugin sometimes tends to error out at the very start of a big stitch, so it may not work too well for you. There are a couple of ways around this:

Use JPEGs instead of TIFs converted from RAW.
Set a smaller panorama output size.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs

Originally posted by: FriedToast
I have NO clue how it would go w/ your current project, but I've used PTGui for years and think it's pretty darn good. Might want to give it a whirl and see if it's worth your time. I've never done anything w/ 85 shots, so can't tell you if it'll bloat out or not. Normally running, it's a pretty snappy program.

All of my 85 shots are raw... going to be a PITA to convert them all.

http://www.fuzzybabybunny.com/tutorials/panorama1.html

This is my tutorial for panos. Note though that Hugin sometimes tends to error out at the very start of a big stitch, so it may not work too well for you. There are a couple of ways around this:

Use JPEGs instead of TIFs converted from RAW.
Set a smaller panorama output size.

Photoshop actually blended the raw images