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Please help me PP my panorama of Kefalonia

 
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Mar 12, 2007 12:03 |  #1

Ok, here's the problem. I have a panorama of Kefalonia and Ithaki which I shot last September, but I don't think my PhotoShop skills are sufficiently advanced to get the best out of it.

Here's the panorama as best I've manged it:

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After I'd stitched the pano I was concerned that (a) the shadows at each end (in the nearby trees) were very dark, and (b) overall there wasn't much punch to the colours. I've tried using the PhotoShop tools to manipulate shadows, highlights, saturation, brightness, contrast, etc. but I just can't seem to get to an appropriate balance.

Can you do any better? The attachment below consists of four vertical slices from the original shots: the trees from shot #1 (on the left), some scenery from shot #3 and shot #7, and the trees from shot #9 (on the right). I corrected the white balance when I converted from RAW but otherwise these have had no enhancement. Please feel free to have a go at applying global changes so that all four slices look OK. And if you get a decent result, please let me know how you did it.

If you'd like me to send you a version of the complete pano (before I "enhanced" it) to play with instead, please let me know, and please indicate what sort of size you'd like. (The original is about 20,000x2000 pixels - a litte cumbersome!)

Thanks in advance for your help.


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Apr 20, 2007 07:09 |  #2

No takers then? I'd have thought there would be somebody up for it.


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Apr 20, 2007 13:36 as a reply to  @ StewartR's post |  #3

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Apr 20, 2007 13:39 as a reply to  @ ayreonaut's post |  #4

I only made basic adjustments.


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Apr 23, 2007 13:44 |  #5

Wow....nice picture. I can see why you want to perfect it.

You said you didn't make any adjustment from raw other than white balance. Have you tried while still in raw upping the exposure setting to make that area brighter? I think to get the most out of the data that is there you would need to provide your original raw files for people to work with.

The left side looks pretty good though. Its really the trees on the right that distract because of the darkness.


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