Interior car lighting is a good topic.
Here is a tip:
Take very large white bedding sheets and drape them over the outside of the windows. This will block the view and also offer disbused lighting for the interior.
Take your 4 shots (or how many you need) and stitch them.
Then open your completed car interior panorama in Photoshop.
Make a duplicate background
Deselect the original background so that you will not see it while erasing the windows
Erase carefully all the glass area (showing the white sheet). The car interior windows now should be black holes. Zoom in to 300 % and erase around the driver mirror and each side mirror and any other detailed area you need to keep.
Save the layered file as a .psd
Open another panorama say taken downtown with other cars on the street.
Now you should have 2 panoramas open- cars/street and car interior. Both panoramas should be the same physical dimensions like 1500 x 3000 pixels.
With the Move Arrow Tool selected, Mouse click the cars/street pano and mouse drag it across to the Car Interior pano. This will place the cars/street pano on a new layer probably above the the car interior pano.
Drag the the cars/street pano layer below the car interior layer. Now you should be able to SEE the Cars/street pano through the car windows all the way around.
You might need to do some window edge clean up.
Save it as a layered .psd file.
Then Flatten the layered psd file and SAVE AS an uncompressed BMP file.
Renowned VR photogrpaher Mark Told in Zurich Switzerland showed us how to do this sometime in the past. When you get to his page click on the same car.. different locations using the left side drop down menu that says "Wahlen Sie eine Panorama" he has the same car at a golf course, downtown Zurich and other neat places.
Markus is exceptionally talented and a great photographer.
http://www.panoramas.ch/panoramas/navigator.aspx
Enjoy !
Dave
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