Processing Hand-held smoothed flowing water
May 19, 2022 17:01:45 #
This is a continuation of an earlier post ( [url = https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/tpr?p=13100988&t=736892] an earlier post [/url] which was more focused on shooting. I did run into a few problems in processing, however, and perhaps I will get some suggestions.
I used PS for aligning a dozen images and cropped them to eliminate the areas beyond the boundary of one or more of the images. My method was to estimate as best I could, crop and then successively make layers invisible to see what I might have missed. It seemed as though this was more tedious than it should be and I wonder whether PS has some feature I am unaware of for establishing the area to be cropped.
Notice that the third image has lost the power lines (and incidentally a blue truck). On closer inspection you might notice it has also lost some blurring in the trees due to movement from wind. My plan had been to remove the power lines using Luminar Neo and I did make several attempts at doing this. That first image was a layer in my PS project so I just applied Neo as a filter and removed the power line - that was easy and it worked fine. The problem was that when I tried to return to PS the processing stopped and I had to kill the editors using the task manager in Windows. This happened twice and I gave up that approach.
Next, I just edited the first image using Neo and saved the result as a tiff file which I loaded into PS along with the twelve RAW images out of the camera. The problem with this approach was that the geometry of the TIFF image was altered from the other twelve images. Probably Neo had some different ideas about the needed lens corrections. I suspect, but have not tested the idea that I should save the first image in TIFF format before removing the power lines in Neo.
I used PS for aligning a dozen images and cropped them to eliminate the areas beyond the boundary of one or more of the images. My method was to estimate as best I could, crop and then successively make layers invisible to see what I might have missed. It seemed as though this was more tedious than it should be and I wonder whether PS has some feature I am unaware of for establishing the area to be cropped.
Notice that the third image has lost the power lines (and incidentally a blue truck). On closer inspection you might notice it has also lost some blurring in the trees due to movement from wind. My plan had been to remove the power lines using Luminar Neo and I did make several attempts at doing this. That first image was a layer in my PS project so I just applied Neo as a filter and removed the power line - that was easy and it worked fine. The problem was that when I tried to return to PS the processing stopped and I had to kill the editors using the task manager in Windows. This happened twice and I gave up that approach.
Next, I just edited the first image using Neo and saved the result as a tiff file which I loaded into PS along with the twelve RAW images out of the camera. The problem with this approach was that the geometry of the TIFF image was altered from the other twelve images. Probably Neo had some different ideas about the needed lens corrections. I suspect, but have not tested the idea that I should save the first image in TIFF format before removing the power lines in Neo.
One of the images to be merged
The median merged images
The Blend of the other two images, with some edits.
May 20, 2022 08:07:24 #
May 20, 2022 08:08:42 #
May 20, 2022 10:30:41 #
I think all of these are quite lovely. I actually prefer the water in the first one, but it is nice to have the wire out. I've never quite gotten the hang of merging photos, and I don't mean to hijack your thread in any way. But may I ask why you decided to do a merge instead of just working to take the wire out of either the first or second. I don't see much difference in them except the water. What am I missing?
May 20, 2022 10:54:22 #
AzPicLady wrote:
I think all of these are quite lovely. I actually prefer the water in the first one, but it is nice to have the wire out. I've never quite gotten the hang of merging photos, and I don't mean to hijack your thread in any way. But may I ask why you decided to do a merge instead of just working to take the wire out of either the first or second. I don't see much difference in them except the water. What am I missing?
I do like the first image as well, but this topic is in the post-processing section because I was exploring a processing technique.
I did actually remove the cable in the first image before merging the first two to get the third but I did not include that image. This was convenient since in that merge operation I masked out everything but the water so the trees in the first and third images are the same except for the cable removal. The blur in the trees is slight, but on careful inspection there is a small bit of blurring due to the trees blowing in the wind.
May 20, 2022 11:32:33 #
May 22, 2022 18:44:26 #
Very nice job! As an old whitewater paddler, that looks like a really fun section.
Jul 15, 2022 21:47:00 #
Here is yet another example of this technique. In this one, rather than a normal blend of one of the images over the median blend I decided a soft light blend did a better job.
Jul 16, 2022 16:29:02 #
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