5 October 2011

Panoramic Views

Another sunnyish day at Hadlow. Mocked up some panoramic views of the planting design site:
View from the East of the site
View from the North of the site

View from the South East of the site

View from the South West of the site

View from the West of the site

Someone asked me how I did these so I thought I'd add a brief description. Its basically several photos taken from the same point combined in Photoshop. Firstly, you piece the photos together. Its always better to have an overlap. If you make the upper layer transparent it makes it a lot easier to see where they go. It doesn't have to be exact. Once you've got your overlapping string of photos (making sure you've put the transparency back up) you have to fiddle around to get the colouring even. I find that Hue & Saturation are the best tools to use. I would also recommend fiddling with the brightness and contrast tools as well as levels. Where the photos overlap (unless you've used a tripod) they might not quite match up. My method is to use the soft brush eraser to take away some of the overlap until it looks right. This makes the join a bit blurry but if you run over it with the sharpen tool, it normally sorts it out. Finish by cropping into a neat rectangle.

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