blending images
Nov 17, 2014 11:02:36 #
I have A panoramic picture made up of three shots taken morning noon and evening. I have uploaded this version. I am trying to blend the three panels so that one merges with the next - and the sharp cutoff between panels disappears. Can you explain how this is done? using Corel PSP6.
Nov 17, 2014 11:51:09 #
It looks as if you shot your panoramic shots using some sort of Auto mode, and the center pane is wildly different in tone and color than the other two. It will probably not blend well, whichever mode you use. For panoramic shots, it is recommended you shoot in full Manual Mode so the color values are consistent. It also recommended you shoot in vertical mode so you can crop out some sky and foreground later and still have your main area of interest with plenty of room to maneuver in the cropping department.
Nov 17, 2014 12:01:13 #
Bob Yankle wrote:
It looks as if you shot your panoramic shots using... (show quote)
And allow about a 25-30% overlap.
Nov 17, 2014 12:02:47 #
Bob Yankle wrote:
It looks as if you shot your panoramic shots using... (show quote)
The problem is "three shots taken morning noon and evening"
Nov 17, 2014 12:12:00 #
lightcatcher wrote:
And allow about a 25-30% overlap.
I've never tried doing this, but something tells me that 30% overlap is the minimum that you'd want.
A thought that occurred to me when thinking about this problem is that if you had three almost complete panoramas, and if it was possible to align all three, you could blend them using selective opacity.
The clouds might pose a problem, since they will be completely different in each panorama, but my experience of cloning sky is that it's fairly tolerant of large amounts of feathering and reduced opacity.
The essence of what I'm suggesting is that large amounts of overlap will make the job easier. But it would all hinge on being able to align the separate images where they overlap.
Nov 17, 2014 12:55:57 #
I think RG has got it, if you post the three separate images he/we/I could show you.
Nov 17, 2014 21:18:00 #
here are thee images there should be plenty of overlap. For some reason they are different heights, but see if they will work.
Nov 17, 2014 22:36:14 #
Two shot at 12:55+ pm and one shot at 7:00 am and three different focal lengths not even going to try.
Nov 18, 2014 00:11:10 #
They are supposed to be morning, noon & nite. That was the whole point of it. I don't want them to join, I thought I could put some kind of transition that would fade them together .
Nov 18, 2014 11:29:27 #
Nov 18, 2014 17:55:34 #
I fixed a little bit 2 of them using photoshop.
dieseldave wrote:
here are thee images there should be plenty of overlap. For some reason they are different heights, but see if they will work.
Nov 19, 2014 20:01:31 #
dieseldave wrote:
They are supposed to be morning, noon & nite. That was the whole point of it. I don't want them to join, I thought I could put some kind of transition that would fade them together .
The transition can be done, but the three separate images you have supplied are not the same as the three used to make the composite. Central appears to be a different image, which explains why it so much smaller in height than the other two.
The transition I wanted to do was to overlap the East and West images with Central on the top in the middle. A feathered layer mask would then be applied to the left and right of the Central layer to blend the bright noon image with the sunrise, sunset images.
As the water in all three images is very much the same colour in these single images, the general brightness is very much of a muchness and the Central does not match with either the East or West images at any point, there is nothing going for a merge.
If you can find the correct Central and upload it, I would be happy to continue.
Nov 19, 2014 23:01:02 #
In corel photopaint they have a tool that will decrease opacity across an image.I made some progress using that, but the fade still leaves lines. I am trying to start at 100% opaque and end at 0%. I attached the three shots that I am using.
Nov 20, 2014 08:13:13 #
here is a quick try the images are not aligned right but does what you want
I put all images into PS aligned them. added a image mask to each one, then did a graduated fill on the mask from the edge to the point to where they match. the center image I had to make two copies split in half did a mask to match the east photo, and on the other half did a mask to mach the west image.
I put all images into PS aligned them. added a image mask to each one, then did a graduated fill on the mask from the edge to the point to where they match. the center image I had to make two copies split in half did a mask to match the east photo, and on the other half did a mask to mach the west image.
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