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January 28, 2007
A View of the Third Floor at Affymetrix, Emeryville
I'm very impressed with the results produced by the latest version of PhotoVista. I forgot to level the camera for this panorama, and the results are still nearly perfect.
There are still a few steps involved to get this kind of quality.
- Shoot 8 RAW images using a Nikkor 14mm lens with the camera in portrait orientation on a Kaidan Panoramic head.
- Open the 8 RAW images in PhotoShop, apply color-correction, dust spot when necessary.
- Apply the amazing PTLens filter to each image to correct for minor distortion introduced by the wide-angle lens.
- Save the images as high-quality JPEG's. (I could choose non-lossy compression at this point, but I know the image will be greatly reduced in size for the web, so a little compression is OK here.)
- Open the eight corrected images in PhotoVista and create a 360 degree panorama. (This is now the easiest part!)
- Save the resulting panorama as a high-quality JPEG.
- Open the panorama in PhotoShop and apply color-correction, spotting, sharpening, etc. as needed.
- Reduce the size of the 18,000 pixel-wide panorama to something that will work on the web. This is done in steps - reducing the size 90% or so several times, sometimes applying a little sharpening along the way until reaching the desired size - in this case 5,000 pixels wide.
- Create a custom VR page using the .ivr file created by PhotoVista.
- Maybe even make a highly compressed version of the original file at its native size for those who have bandwidth to spare.
- Make an entry on the blog!
Posted by thedude at January 28, 2007 10:11 AM
