when you become proficient how long will it take to make a tour?

being a little more specific, after taking the pictures on site, from siting down on you PC chair to finished tour being uploaded,

if we say 8 tours, no stills, no maps, no text areas, the pictures will needing stitching and blending, and you are using a pre made skin

Ta Steve

Hi Pixelator,

Thanks for the reminder on how to do the Spheres. I had forgotten that.

I noticed you took 12 hours to process your photos. A think fair amount of your time would have been taken up in the conversion process between cubic to spheric with Photoshop and PW5. If you were to install Sphere to Cube Express plugin filter from Super Rune  into photoshop, you would then only need to stitch to sphere once. Open the pano in photoshop, run the Sphere to Cube Express filter, touch up the ceiling, then procede to creating the mirror ball. You wouldn't need to exit from Photoshop until you had saved for web in the usual way. This should shave a little time off your work flow.

To use Super Rune properly you must follow the simple but important instructions. click here to visit their website

Hope this is helpful.

Regards,

Willie

Willie & Jerry,

Thanks for the link and suggestions about the plugin, I'll take a closer look.

As for the time constraint it can be found in Photomatix.  It seems to take FOREVER.  It loads the images pretty quickly, I then select Detail Enhancer for tone mapping and she starts getting slugish when saving the .tiff.  My hope is that I can add some memory to speed her up a bit.

Thanks again for the suggested plugin.

Jerry,

You are stitching 3 times thus increasing your workload.  Merge in Photomatix then use those images to stitch once.  Also, when you save the images that Photomatix gives you, name them ?1 - ?4 then when you open in PW5 and have auto select turned on, it will place the images with only one click.

Give it a go, hope this helps.

Quote: Originally posted by realtor jerry on August-19-2008

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How do you figure I'm stitching 3 times? Unless you're talking about my brackets then it would be 5 times. I bracket 5. Do you "batch" merge in photomatix? I take 6+T so how would I batch merge them so there would no variation in the images?

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