Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Douglas, I'll check these features/programs out tonight. Op 19-nov-05, om 19:03 heeft Douglas Sharp het volgende geschreven: > Hello Phillipe, > I used the evaluation version (no time limit, but I like it so much > I will probably buy it) of DCE tools (mediachance.com) for > perspective and manual lens correction, it's similar to PS but it > doesn't require making an extra layer (it's faster too). > The nice thing about it is, you have a panel next to the correcting > window which shows exactly what is happening to your image. I > corrected by pulling the grid at the bottom of the shot out of the > image frame, > I could have done it at the top but this tends to make the loss of > image data too high in the subsequent crop- it's ok if it's only > sky,you can fill that up with the healing brush option in PS, if > there are details it takes too long (for me) to get it just right > in PS-elements 3 > For profiled lens corrections I usually use PTlens (freeware at > epaperpress), this also has options for straightening out fish-eye > shots, removing chromatic aberration and vignetting effects - very > similar to DxO but infinitely cheaper (i.e. free). > DCE tools also took care of the casts and mid-tone contrast - a > very cleverly thought out,effective and easy to use tool box which > goes into PS as a plug-in. > The sequence was : perspective correctionfirst, then distortion > correction (based on a very slight curvature of the frame with the > sign Antwerpen on top). I didn't bother doing any rotation. > Cheers > Douglas > By the way the give-away to the composite nature of the shot is > that the shadow of the lamp-post in the left foreground should be > on the armrest of the nearest sofa too > > > Philippe Orlent wrote: > >> Hi Douglas, >> >> I think you nailed it just right. Could you explain me how you >> did all this? I'd like to repeat it myself on the high res image. >> Thanks for taking out the green cast in the middle of this image, >> but in fact I put it there myself and voluntary. >> The lens was the Vario Summicorn on the Digilux 2 set at the 35mm >> equiv. of 28mm. For all shots. >> >> Thank you all the others for mailing me the degrees of rotation >> up till the .01 degree sharp. >> >> Below an url that shows the initial and untouched images I started >> with: >> http://tinyurl.com/cxc6r >> >> And this was the result: >> http://tinyurl.com/82jq2 >> >> >> >> Op 19-nov-05, om 02:04 heeft Douglas Sharp het volgende geschreven: >> >>> Philippe, >>> I couldn't resist - why do you post shots like this so early in >>> the morning? ;-) >>> Anyway, I looked at it from all angles, agreed, disagreed, put >>> a fine grid over it, played around with it and took 10 minutes >>> to tweak a couple of things.. >>> I think everything is horizontal or vertical now, >>> but,unfortunately, I lost a bit of the lower part by correcting >>> the perspective. >>> I also applied a tiny touch of manual distortion correction.(BTW >>> what lens was it?, I may have a lens profile here somewhere to >>> get an accurate correction) >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/pano Your shot >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/pano_edited_1 >>> whether it's straight I'll leave to your judgment >>> >>> I also removed a slight colour cast (but that's maybe on my >>> laptop TFT-screen) I couldn't be bothered firing up the big >>> machine in the office, so if the colours are wrong blame Fujitsu- >>> Siemens and Adobe- Gamma. >>> cheers >>> Douglas >>> >>> Philippe Orlent wrote: >>> >>>> Op 19-nov-05, om 01:09 heeft Richard S. Taylor het volgende >>>> geschreven: >>>> >>>>> Why don't all piers have couches? I've never seen anything >>>>> like it. It looks like a winning idea to me. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> In fact, it's a shot I made today for an ad campaign for couches. >>>> It's 5 in one photos, one per couch (shot inside in dim light) >>>> and the pier itself around noon. >>>> The rest is PS. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>> information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >