Hi!

When you take the pics do you recommend taking them in Nikon nef format or in tif?

My steps are these:

- Taking pics in nef format
- Open in Photoshop CS, apply sharpening , luminanz-smoothing (and white balance if necessary), using photoshop cs's raw plugin.
- Saving to bmp
- Creating a spherical pano and save the pano to bmp
- Fixing errors in PS, saving to bmp
- Import pano in PW and convert to cubic, saving as bmp
- Removing tripod in PS, saving to bmp
- Import cubic, retouched pano in PW and convert to spherical, export to html
- Finsishing pano with PT Viewer

With these steps I notice that I loose very much sharpess. When zooming in the pano, it becomes unsharpen very early, when zooming.

Would it help to use tif instead of raw?
Should sharpening applied at a later time? e.g. at finished, retouched spherical pano?

Greetings,

Sven

Yup! I'm with Simon.

.jpg is fine for you camera images and sharpening is the very final step before exporting to .jpg (For web use)

Regards, Smooth