Category Archives: Photoshop techniques

Making the Hong Kong GigaPan image

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Brian Lawler

I shipped my GigaPan rig and my Really Right Stuff carbon fiber tripod in my checked luggage to Hong Kong. My hope was that I could make a couple of beautiful panoramic images of the Victoria Harbor with Hong Kong … Continue reading →

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Hong Kong, Day three-point-seven

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Brian Lawler

I think. Yesterday was the ICC Symposium at the Hong Kong Design Institute. We were expecting about 450 participants, and over 700 attended. The large auditorium at the center was filled, and they stayed all the way to the end. … Continue reading →

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Details on scanning film with the Epson scanner

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Brian Lawler

In two earlier blogs I described how I set up a large tabletop arrangement to scan historic panoramic negatives on my Epson Perfection scanner. When using the Epson scanner with the Epson Scan software (you can control the Epson scanner … Continue reading →

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More on scanning film
with the Epson scanner

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Brian Lawler

Last week I wrote about my immersion into scanning 19th century panoramic film. These negatives kept me up nights for about ten days. My total output of scans was 26. I carefully sorted through over 150 pieces of film, selected those … Continue reading →

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Mister master masker makes masking mission

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Brian Lawler

  I was visiting a friend’s airplane hangar recently when we were suddenly aware of a louder than normal plane approaching on the ramp. We looked outside and were treated to the arrival of a beautiful Waco biplane, possibly the … Continue reading →

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…another cheese sandwich and a GigaPan photo

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Brian Lawler

It turns out that tying the camera to the GigaPan mount wasn’t adequate to make a successful panorama. So, even though I thought I could fix everything by straightening the horizons of 858 photos using the Image Processor and an … Continue reading →

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Tying one (camera) on to the GigaPan rig

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Brian Lawler

Yesterday, my friend Sophie Nuber and I hiked to the top of a hill overlooking San Luis Obispo Bay, near my home. The climb was tough for me because: 1) I am old, and 2) I was carrying the tripod, … Continue reading →

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More Mysterious Forces at work: using Mac OS to repair corrupted JPEG and EPS files

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Brian Lawler

In yesterday’s blog I revealed that I can “convert” PNG files to TIFF files just by changing their suffix in the operating system. In fact no conversion is taking place; the file name is being changed, and that’s it. Somehow … Continue reading →

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Image Processor – photo horsepower in a nearly unknown tool

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Brian Lawler

Russell Brown, Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems, created an application plug-in for Photoshop years ago with help from some of the programmers on the Photoshop team. It was first made available on Russell’s “off-campus” site as Russell Brown’s Image … Continue reading →

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I have created a photo too large for Photoshop

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Brian Lawler

For those who have been following my work to make ultra-high-resolution panoramic photos with the GigaPan robotic camera mount, I have finally triumphed! I made a panoramic image this last Saturday with 1515 contributing images. The resulting image is 384,728 … Continue reading →

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