Viewing and manipulating spherical panoramas directly in Photoshop CC 2018

[Boothy]

Viewing and manipulating spherical panoramas directly in Photoshop

Hi All

The new update to Photoshop CC 2018 (18\10\17) allows viewing and manipulating of spherical panoramas directly in Photoshop.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photo ... Z&mv=email

Best wishes

Boothy

[Tony]

It's a logical next step for Adobe what with their acquisition of Mettle for 360˚ in Premier and After Effects. There are some cool tricks you can do especially with non-destructive editing, text & graphic overlays, adjustments and filters that don't leave a seam (not all work properly and I'm putting together a list of what does work and what doesn't). Try a Spherical Blur, that's pretty cool.

I've put together a couple of tutorials in my Tips & Tutorials section https://tonyredhead.com/tipsandtutorials

360˚ Advanced Editing in Adobe Photoshop 2018 https://tonyredhead.com/adobe/360-photo ... ed-editing

360˚ Editing in Photoshop - Filters, Adjustments and Tripod Caps: https://tonyredhead.com/adobe/360-photoshop-editing-1

All in all it's another great tool in our arsenal, however there are few controls to manage the actual pan and tilt in the canvas of the 3D environment and you can only control Fov. This makes things like placing a trip cap exactly on the Nadir point very hit and miss. If you want accuracy the Pano2VR patch tool gives you much great control.

Tony

[Frankster69]

For those looking for an alternative...

Affinity Photo does this already since january this year. I'm using it on a daily basis to edit my 360 panorama's and am very satisfied with it. Best of all, it's just 60,- Euro in a one-time purchase, no subscription.

Affinity Photo is being praised as one of the best and hottest Photoshop competitors. It can do almost all that Photoshop can and does so even better in many cases, looks better and is dramatically cheaper. It has layers, RAW editing, 360 editing, live-preview of brushes/tools as you use them, adjustable brush-size while using (you can adjust the size while painting, without letting go of the mouse), has great content-aware editing tools (healing brush/in-painting etc) does HDR/Focus-merge, and can even read and write PSD files.

Affinity 360 editing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aQ25-pOo_c

Advanced 360 editing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhY6QUWJhCU

360 retouching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJu7fUpnMK8

Affinity Photo:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

Removing the tripod is a 1 minute job to me. Just load the image, switch to 360 projection, look down in the pano, use the in-painting tool (amazing good), leave the 360 projection and save.

I'm not affiliated, just very happy I found this and am not bound to monthly subscription fees to be able to work on the same level as Photoshop (I have CS6, never did the CC thing). In my 360 'studio' Pano2VR and Affinity Photo are the backbone.

Regards, Frank

[Tony]

Affinity Photo sounds pretty good and those that use it really praise it.

I use a number of different applications in my 360˚ workflow outside of Pano2VR including After Effects, Premiere, Audition, Dreamweaver, Illustrator and Photoshop so I'm a captive to Adobe's Creative Cloud.

So their recent acquisition of Mettle and their move to 360˚ editing in Photoshop is a good sign, subscription price increase is not!

[Frankster69]

It's the subscription that drove me away

Indeed I think the new features in Photoshop are a good development. I also think having a serious competitor can be mutually beneficial. At the moment Affinity Photo has come a long way but isn't yet fully 'there'. What it does have is enough for me now, I still have PS CS6 too. Affinity is only at version 1.5, so for their short existence they've come a long way. Now on Windows as well, before it was Mac only.

For video I'm now using PowerDirector and for knitting panorama's PanoramaStudio.

regards, Frank

[360Texas]

Toolbox collection
Started panorama work last November 1989.

Canon 5d with Sigma 8mm full circle fisheye, Theta V
Samsung Galaxy s7 Curve
Samsung Gear VR Head Mounted Display (1st edition)

non cloud versions:
Photoshop CS6 +Bridge CS6 +Gimp and Inkscape
Ptgui Pro
Dreamweaver CS6
Power Director 15

And best for last: Pano2vr Pro

Hard at VR Work

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Not captive
Thank you for asking

[360Texas]

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