Hey great tutorial Paul, and thanks for the shout! I've never used PS, I know it's a very powerful (and expensive) tool. You are really good with it. I was kind of surprised there was so much editing to do from your drone shots, I thought you could tell it to stitch a "panorama photo" and everything would line up. Guess not. I use Luminar NEO for individual photos, which has the generative AI functionality as well. My experience has been hit and miss. Sometimes it's awesome. Sometimes not. But I use the clone tool a lot, it seems like the heal tool in PS but more manual. I actually like editing photos, and really enjoyed seeing this process. I've heard of guys using wallpaper paste to hang their backdrops. Take care - Bill.
Thanks Bill! Photoshop has a monthly subscription now that's not too unreasonable. Especially if you're just paying for it the months you need it, and canceling the subscription when you don't need it any more. There are a couple different ways you automate the "stitching" process but the results never seem to be all that great, and because I'm doing so many continuous back drops that involve merging locals that are not directly next to each other, it's just easier to do it manually like this.
@@FGLKPaul It happens. As someone who works with orthophotos for a living, might I suggest that you crop each photo (only use the centre 50% top to bottom, left to right). The reason for this is to minimise the lens distortion effect that you get around the peripheral of each image. This comes from the DJI having a very tiny lens size. This will help lining up side by side photos. When they capture orthophotos they make sure to have 60% overlap in the direction of flight and 40% sidelap. They only ever use the middle of each image when they combine into one seamless image. Cheers
@@mattw9667 thanks so much for the tip! I will definitely keep that in mind going forward. Still have plenty of them left to do so this will definitely help
So Cool!!! Thx for sharing. Creating these real scene backdrops for a specific feel and look in the area your modeling ties it all together. Will this process work using Google street view? -Alex
Wow! For a guy whose computer skills are tested just pulling up emails this is beyond amazing! Thanks for this tutorial and education. Great work!
Thank you! Definitely not an easy process, but the results usually end up worth the headache for sure!
Hey great tutorial Paul, and thanks for the shout! I've never used PS, I know it's a very powerful (and expensive) tool. You are really good with it. I was kind of surprised there was so much editing to do from your drone shots, I thought you could tell it to stitch a "panorama photo" and everything would line up. Guess not. I use Luminar NEO for individual photos, which has the generative AI functionality as well. My experience has been hit and miss. Sometimes it's awesome. Sometimes not. But I use the clone tool a lot, it seems like the heal tool in PS but more manual. I actually like editing photos, and really enjoyed seeing this process. I've heard of guys using wallpaper paste to hang their backdrops. Take care - Bill.
Thanks Bill! Photoshop has a monthly subscription now that's not too unreasonable. Especially if you're just paying for it the months you need it, and canceling the subscription when you don't need it any more.
There are a couple different ways you automate the "stitching" process but the results never seem to be all that great, and because I'm doing so many continuous back drops that involve merging locals that are not directly next to each other, it's just easier to do it manually like this.
Wow thtat's awesome and the end product came out amazing great tutotial.
@@mattjacobus3005 thanks buddy! 😁
Fantastic tutorial Paul!
@@robfairportlogistics thanks buddy 😁
Great job. Looks like youll be receiving some work requests soon!
@@mattw9667 appreciate it! I've barely got time for my model railroad though. 😂
@@FGLKPaul It happens. As someone who works with orthophotos for a living, might I suggest that you crop each photo (only use the centre 50% top to bottom, left to right). The reason for this is to minimise the lens distortion effect that you get around the peripheral of each image. This comes from the DJI having a very tiny lens size. This will help lining up side by side photos. When they capture orthophotos they make sure to have 60% overlap in the direction of flight and 40% sidelap. They only ever use the middle of each image when they combine into one seamless image. Cheers
@@mattw9667 thanks so much for the tip! I will definitely keep that in mind going forward. Still have plenty of them left to do so this will definitely help
So Cool!!! Thx for sharing. Creating these real scene backdrops for a specific feel and look in the area
your modeling ties it all together. Will this process work using Google street view?
-Alex
Thanks! I don't think you'd get quite image quality necessary from street view unfortunately