On 2/18/2016 9:42 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
For those of us who occasionally emerge from under large rocks, I
wanted to introduce you this. Adobe has added a new feature in the
panorama merge function: Boundary Warp.
Oddly enough, some of us, rock bound or not, are on their mailing list for updates/new features. :-) The one
announcing Boundary Warp arrived this morning.
OTOH, this is a LR only feature, at least so far. I know that's all that matters to you, but failing to mention that
detail makes your message less useful than it might have been to some others of us.
This is a VERY useful feature and provides another means of getting
the most coverage area out of your panoramas without resorting to
smart fill and other tools to keep from having to aggressively crop
your merged images.
I just used Content Aware Fill on the panorama I posted yesterday. A modest
pain, but magic compared to before.
What it does is when you do a panorama merge.... No cropping necessary.
It's doesn't always work for everything, and you don't have to go all
the way to extremes with it either, but it is another tool in the box
which is quite helpful.
The example in their email seriously changes subject shapes. I'd think anyone
who knew the subject would find it wrong.
I just tried it on my panorama from yesterday. At 100%, it seriously messes with the horizon, and looks unnatural. At
50%, the distortion is less noticeable, and wouldn't be a problem for someone who doesn't know the subject.
OTOH, I can get a more natural looking, and geometrically accurate, image with only a few minutes of Content Aware Fill
and Clone - or just losing a bit to cropping.
This is similar to the warp function in PWP, but is done automatically and works on more
"grab points".
PS has both Distort and Warp tools. I'm not sure how they relate to similarly named tools elsewhere. Warp works on
specific 'grab' points. Distort works most at the corner being pushed or pulled, diminishing gradually across most of
the whole image. What LR is doing to panoramas looks more like PS Distort.
Warp Speed Moose
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