Sharpening Techniques in Photoshop

Photoshop (Intermediate – Advanced): Learn a number of ways to sharpen images with Chuck Behrman

In this tutorial CD, Chuck Behrman will teach you, through live, real-time demonstrations, many techniques for using Photoshop, as well as other applications for Macintosh and Windows computers for assembling panorama images from multiple photographs.

Contents:

Almost 2 1/2 hours of Quicktime Video tutorials

 We will go through the entire process in detail including:

• The equipment needed to implement panorama images – this includes custom panorama rigs as well as simple implementations you can make yourself.

• Setting up the panorama, including finding the nodal point of your lens – being able to rotate your camera around the point of minimum parallax.

• Exposure and focusing issues for consistency and accuracy.

• Determining the number of images necessary for a panorama.

• Pre-processing Raw images for panoramas with Photoshop and The Bridge.

• Stitching your images together with Photoshop and other applications like The VR Worx, PanoramaMaker, and Calico.

• Linear panoramas (images in a line) and tiled panoramas (multiple rows of linear images) for print.

• Creating 360° cylindrical and 360° x 180° spherical panoramas for print and QTVR movies for presentation on your computer and the internet.

• Creating image maps and combining them with QTVR panoramas to make self-contained QTVR movies.

• Special considerations and techniques for retouching panorama images.

• Links to panorama and QTVR resources on the internet.