Sharpening a Panorama

[Dave Buckley]

Guys i very often render out still images and then add a sharpen filter in post because ican never get my default render crisp enough.

 

if i wish to arender out a panorama, using the panorama exporter, then how would i add a sharpen filter to the panorama???

 

is it possible

[SandmanNinja]

I always add a touch of sharpen filter to my photographic panoramas.

 

If any of my renders are too fuzzy, then I play with the AntiAlias setting.

[Dave Buckley]

i still feel tho that the anti alias settings and sample settings and filter settings in MR are not good enough when it comes to wanting a nice crisp render like the output you get from vray

 

so how would i sharpen a panorama (not a still image but the one from the panorama exporter in max) in post???

[SandmanNinja]

The panorama exporter in Max writes a TIF or BMP or JPG.

 

So... I'd sharpen it in photoshop.

Filter -> Sharpen

[Macer]

Out of interest, what filter and sampling settings are you using?

[Dave Buckley]

filter - mitchell

min - 1

max - 64

spatial contrast set to 0.01 for RGBA

noise filtering - standard

jitter - enabled

FG, medium preset with rays per fg point adjusted to 300

 

anything else or am i way off with these settings???

[Ky Lane]

Render the image at twice the size you need, and then resize in PS. Itll be much sharper.

[Dave Buckley]

cheers for the input ky, but that kinda defeats the point of sharpening in post, render time at twice the size vs quick smart sharpen in photoshop

 

and i'm not really after sharpening an image, but more the output from the panorama exporter, you know the 3d 360 degree virtual tour type thing

[Ky Lane]

cheers for the input ky, but that kinda defeats the point of sharpening in post, render time at twice the size vs quick smart sharpen in photoshop

 

and i'm not really after sharpening an image, but more the output from the panorama exporter, you know the 3d 360 degree virtual tour type thing

 

*shrug* its what I do. Render the pano out as individual files and use some program we have to stitch it together and perform the pano result. Always comes out nice and sharp.

[Dave Buckley]

each to their own i guess

 

do you know what program i could use for the stitching process then ky??

[Ky Lane]

Not sure of the name of the one we use. Ill let you know once Im in the studio.

 

However, have a look at this : http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

[Dave Buckley]

looks good, but i don't want the end result to be a still image, i want an interactive environment where you can look around by moving the mouse

[Ky Lane]

I built a viewer in flash. Dont be lazy

[dpcaltdcah]

we use one called pano2QTVR.

I'm pretty happy with it. It puts out a quicktime file that is, like you want, interactive.

[SandmanNinja]

I've been doing pan photography for YEARS - over a decade - and all pans start life as a still image. Unless you do video...

 

So, output it as something lossless - tiff, bmp, png, etc

do whatever you need to do to it - sharpen, resize, etc

 

Convert it to a quicktime

 

You can do this internal to 3ds if you have a 32-bit version of 3ds.

Just go to the panoexporter, LOAD a pan, then export as a quicktime.

 

I use PanoCube software because I'm on 64-bit