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Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: vjbelle on July 31, 2015, 08:12:01 am
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Very cool, Kevin. Thanks much for the post.
Victor
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Great article Kevin!
Made me recall a somewhat related experience I call "Boinga, boinga, boinga,..." from a few years ago: http://tao-of-digital-photography.blogspot.com/2008/08/boinga-boinga-boinga-shots.html) in which I was gnashing my teeth waiting for hordes of people to finally cross the precariously balanced Indiana-Jones-style hanging wood-plank bridge I was standing on (and trying to get a shot of Ausable Chasm in upstate New York). I wish I could use your method to get rid of the stomping feet back then (and at the moment) ;)
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Thanks for the comments. I am kind of addicted to this now and have enjoyed going to certain busy highways and intersections and making them look like the end of the world has come. All sorts of possibilities and one more thing to keep in mind when doing landscapes at popular tourist destinations. I used this recently on a beach in Iceland. Just one more thing to keep in your tool box.
I should note that in some cases you will need to go in and fix things that weren't caught like a ghosting on a cloud or tree branch.
On Sunday I'll post an article on Focus Stacking using Photoshop. Nothing amazingly new but I am surprised when leading workshops how many people are unaware of or never tried the technique.
Kevin Raber
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Very cool, Kevin. Thanks much for the post.
Victor
+1
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Kevin,
Great stuff... Funny I used essentially the same technique to "add traffic" to a section of freeway here in Southern CA. The light was best during light traffic hours but the client wanted "rush hour" traffic. It was more difficult in that I had to place vehicles in believe able spacing!
Rand
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Excellent!
Thanks Kevin
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Great tip, thanks Kevin. I was aware of the concept from Matt Lauer's haunting pictures of L.A. freeways (http://emptyla.com), but your automation of the process (as opposed to going in and hand masking in each layer) is cracking good!
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Back many years ago an early variation of this stacked-frame elimination technique is how Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt made
405: The Movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THeDlvLI3nk) (IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259165/)
It was a remarkable piece of amateur short filmmaking and well worth the few minutes if you've never seen it.
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Hi Kevin, nice article. How do you preserve shadows? Seems like if too much time went by the process would erase the shadows as they would be "different."
(My first post I left out two letters in "shadows" making the word "shows.")
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Using 'statistics' under 'scripts' in photoshop does most of the steps in one dialog box and it remembers what you did the last time so all you have to do is select 'use open images' and you are done. I use statistics mostly for blending multiple images in 'mean' mode for enhanced image quality with noise reduction. Also works well with bracketed exposures without any HDR look.
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Thanks
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No, Lightroom won't work for this technique. You need the statiscal part of Photoshop to perform this.
Kevin Raber
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Kevin,
This seems a rehash of the old, tried and trusted method of:
File>Scripts>Statistics : Median
Load files ...
What is the benefit here, in your opinion, of converting all the files to smart objects ?
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Kevin,
And THANKS for including links to the files.
Brad
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When statistics is finished you have a single smart object that is the blended result of all the files you gave it and the smart object is the closest thing to raw that you can have that is not actually a raw file. It is just a way to do non destructive editing.
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It is just a way to do non destructive editing.
Nope, not here, as Kevin flattens all layers at the end of his video (which is destructive).
Kevin describes the step of converting to SO 'as an important step' at 2:14 in the clip.
From what I see, there is no difference to running
File>Scripts>Statistics : Median
Load files ...
and, if you want to, converting the flattened file to a SO at the end.
So Kevin, what is 'so important' , or rather what's the benefit over the simpler procedure ?
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Many thanks. That's going to work nicely in situations where Content Aware fill will struggle.
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Great story!
Thanks for the post.
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Just one more thing to keep in your tool box.
Thank you Kevin. Your unselfish willingness to share techniques is much appreciated. I would really like to use this, but unfortunately CS6 basic won't allow it and I'm reluctant to lease software.
Does anyone know how to do something similar using CS6 basic?
On Sunday I'll post an article on Focus Stacking using Photoshop.
CS6 basic can do this, however, using Scripts.
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Thank you Kevin. Your unselfish willingness to share techniques is much appreciated. I would really like to use this, but unfortunately CS6 basic won't allow it and I'm reluctant to lease software.
You are wrong...simply select the images in Bridge and Load into Photoshop Layers, select all and convert to a Smart Object then modify the Blend Mode.
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You are wrong...simply select the images in Bridge and Load into Photoshop Layers, select all and convert to a Smart Object then modify the Blend Mode.
Jeff, I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the arithmetic SO blending is only available in CS6 Extended, not basic. I seem to remember that it was one of the reasons that I upgraded from CS5, long ago.
Cheers,
Bart
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Hi All
Great technique but can't get it to work in CS6 basic .
regards
Jon
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Jeff, I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the arithmetic SO blending is only available in CS6 Extended, not basic. I seem to remember that it was one of the reasons that I upgraded from CS5, long ago.
I agree. CS6 basic has no statistics and no median. I loaded 4 layers, selected all and converted to smart object. Result was a single layer and no changes in available blend modes.
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If your images are taken from a tripod with everything manual, it shouldn't be necessary to go through the photomerge and smart object steps. You can simply open Photoshop, choose File>Scripts>Statistics and choose your images (or open files, if they are already open in PS.) It could save some time if you have a lot of images.
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I used this technique a few years ago to make an interesting photo. I was at the IVRPA (International VR Photography Association) meeting in San Francisco and we did a photoshoot walk across the Golden Gate bridge. In keeping with the group's interest in panoramic photography, I was making a spherical panorama on the bridge. Of course, there are tons of people and cars on the bridge, but I wanted it to appear empty, so I took a bunch of images at each angle where it was needed. It worked pretty well and stitched together just fine. I call it Golden Gate Ghost. I am attaching it below, both the original stitch and after making it more ghostly looking.
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If your images are taken from a tripod with everything manual, it shouldn't be necessary to go through the photomerge and smart object steps. You can simply open Photoshop, choose File>Scripts>Statistics and choose your images (or open files, if they are already open in PS.) It could save some time if you have a lot of images.
Yes that is one way to do it, but you wouldn't see the steps involved. Like a lot of things in PS, there are a few ways to accomplish the same thing.
Kevin Raber
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It would be fantastic if Adobe integrated this:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/1112226582/google-and-mit-team-up-on-clever-method-to-remove-reflections-and-obstructions-from-photos (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/1112226582/google-and-mit-team-up-on-clever-method-to-remove-reflections-and-obstructions-from-photos)
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This is fantastic. Another one of the powerful Photoshop features that I had no idea existed. I always have issues when shooting architectural exteriors. It is hard enough removing signage, light poles and other obstacles, but being able to clear cars and people is certainly a big deal. Thanks Kevin, for passing on this technique.
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Looks like a great technique but sadly unable to make this work - cannot see the option to select Median. Went down one of the suggestions below except the option of Scripts is also devoid of Statistics... :(
Are there any other methods someone would like to share or perhaps another piece of software?
Thanks
Daniel
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Daniel, you may be working with an older version of Photoshop. The newer versions have this available. Certain older versions did not as at that time they offered several tiers of pricing.
Kevin Raber
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Daniel, you may be working with an older version of Photoshop. The newer versions have this available. Certain older versions did not as at that time they offered several tiers of pricing.
Kevin Raber
Many thanks for the swift reply Kevin, I shall download a newer version as a trial and see how I get on with this. :)
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Hi, a little late to the party on this but I also have P/S CS6 but not the extenmded version and this STACK/MEDIAN filter is not available so I have tried to find another software that can do it and at this time the only one beleive it or not is the FREE GIMP with a plug-in for GIMP called GMIC it is slow but it does the job. I have also looked for an action or script for P/S CS6 but no luck.
Anyone no differant???
Thanks
Russ