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In keeping with the theme of the day, I have the following picture that was created by stitching together several shots using Canon’s photostich utility that came with my Ixus.
The problem I want to resolve is the “ripple” in the sky – I want to smooth it out. It is also apparent in the trees, but I can live with that – the sky is the problem.
I’ve tried Photoshop’s blur tool on the ripples, but that does not help – I think the tones are too subtle.
Any advice on how I could get the sky right?
It is diffcult to remove the lines as each picture has been taken and the exposure automatically calculated each time and therefore slightly different depending upon the available light, the way around it I think would to take the picture in manual mode with a facility called exposure lock, but most point and shoot cameras will not have this facility…
But not sure which camera you have, but alternatively shoot in RAW and then balance them out afterwards?? Lensman,
Using the lasoo tool roughly select all of the sky, all the way to the top of the picture and down as far as you can into the lighter, almost white part of the sky.
Copy the area you have selected and then paste it as another layer directly over the top of it. The select all of the visible picture in that layer (and nothing else).
Then, select either gaussian blur or motion blur and apply it too that layer. You can adjust the amount of blur that each one of these has manually with a slide bar. It is essential that you just apply each of these to the copied layer, since doing it on the background will probably mess up the picture.
You can increase or decrease either of these blurs until you get the desired effect.
well that tiny image is not a lot to work with but hows this..
ideally you want all the separate slides that make up the panorama as individual layers and tweak the curves of each layer till the all match up
then flatten the layers and use the colour range selection tool to select al your sky colours and then apply the Gaussian blur to blend the sky together use the clone tool for last minute repairs
Cheers, thanks guys I’ll give these things a go.
The image I posted is scaled down from the original total stiched width of about 7k pixels – rescaling to 800 pixels wide is for a banner on my website.
Unfortunately I can’t take the shots again – they were taken on my Ixus 5 a couple of years ago. Since then I’ve got myself a 350D digital SLR that can do RAW, but its not an option in this case.
I’ll try both fixing up the full sized post-stiched image as Neon suggested, and maybe also have a go at matching the colours on the original 5 pictures, and then restitch.
Majicker – nice job. Mind if I grab that image to use in the short term?
@Lensman wrote:
Majicker – nice job. Mind if I grab that image to use in the short term?
sure – post the full sized image and we can all have a crack at it 🙂
in photoshop use clone stamp with a soft brush and lower opacity untill you get it right. theres also a tool that looks like a plaster that patches and gets rid of that kind of thing. I’d demonstrate but im not at home
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