Filling in Panoramas with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
Lesson 31 from: Travel Photography: The Complete GuideBen Willmore
Filling in Panoramas with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
Lesson 31 from: Travel Photography: The Complete GuideBen Willmore
Lesson Info
31. Filling in Panoramas with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
Lessons
DAY 1
1Course Introduction
01:59 2Camera Gear for Travel
28:20 3What Camera Gear Should You Buy?
13:58 4Gear Bags for Travel Photography
20:19 5Location Research and Pre-Trip Planning
21:01 6Importing and Naming Conventions in Lightroom
19:33 7Processing Images with Presets in Lightroom
27:06Basic Develop Module Processing
20:59 9Travel Architecture Photography
07:29 10Tourists in Your Shots
21:28 11Travel Panoramas
08:07 12Travel Street Photography
22:45 13What to Photograph While Traveling
21:16 14Night Photography Tips
03:26 15Adjusting for Clean Backgrounds
26:00 16How to Correct Composition in Camera
18:46 17Framing and Composition Tips
21:23 18Folder System in Lightroom
33:04 19How to Find Any Image in Lightroom
06:16 20Keywording Tactics in Lightroom
18:04 21Sort Keywords in Lightroom
28:30 22Update Default Settings in Lightroom
15:55 23How to Process HDR Images in Lightroom
21:34 24Adjusting Panoramas in Lightroom
07:50 25Adjustment Brush in Lightroom
20:05 26Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
04:31 27Switching from Lightroom to Photoshop
12:42 28Using Masks to Make Adjustments in Photoshop
23:20 29Composite Images in Photoshop
31:09 30Focus Stacking in Photoshop
02:23 31Filling in Panoramas with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
05:05 32Removing Glowing Highlights in Photoshop
06:12 33Lens Specifications and Performance
39:06 34Clone Stamp, Healing Brush and Spot Healing in Photoshop
10:55 35Removing Tourists in Shots using Photoshop
07:49 36Tricks to Manual Cloning in Photoshop
08:51 37Content Aware Feature vs Healing Tools
16:30DAY 2
Lesson Info
Filling in Panoramas with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
I'm gonna take an image here. I'm gonna just do command E on it to open it 'cause I'm not gonna do the smart object trick. And remember when we had a panorama, and with the panorama the... we ended up with a non-rectangular end result and it made us crop in too tight up here on the top. Well here's a trick you can do to fill in the empty parts of a panorama. And you don't have to remember how to do this, if you purchase the class (laughs) because the class comes with, I think it's about a dozen actions, and one of those actions is "fill in empty part of panorama" action. So all you're gonna have to do is click on the name of an action and hit the play button. But for those of you that don't purchase the class, I still want you to get value out of this so here's how it's done. First, go to your layer. Put your mouse on top of the thumbnail. We need the contents of that layer to be selected. So hold down the command key and click on that. That's the control key in Windows. Command clicki...
ng on a thumbnail in your layers panel does something special. What it does is it selects whatever's in that layer by just ignoring the checkerboard. It means select everything that doesn't look like a checkerboard in that layer. Select everything other than the empty parts. Make sense? Then I need the selection to be just the tiniest bit smaller, because right now it's just kissing the edge. I need it to overlap the picture. But not by much. So I'm gonna go to the Select menu. I'm gonna choose Modify, and I'll choose Contract. And I'll just type in one pixel, that's fine. Now it's gonna be overlapping the picture by one pixel. It's just like having a balloon full of air and just let the littlest bit of air out of it. It's the same shape, it's just a little smaller. And so it was the same shape of a selection, it just got the tiniest bit smaller. Then since I don't wanna change the middle part of the picture, I need the exact opposite of what I currently have. I need the checkerboard to be selected. I do that by going the select menu and choosing inverse. Inverse gives me the opposite. So now I have the checkerboard area selected, and that selection should overlap the picture, by just one pixel. That's what I need. Then I'll go to the Edit menu and I'm gonna choose Fill. And I think the default setting is Content-Aware and this little check box would be turned off. I have used this for something else and I didn't reset my preferences before we got started. Usually I would. We definitely need to have Preserve Transparency turned off otherwise it would preserve the checkerboard and not be able to change it. But we want Content-Aware, and then we're just gonna click OK. Doo do doo do, just waiting for it. Get some coffee, whatever. Yeah, I can have a beverage. But what it's gonna do is invent new content to fill in the checkerboard based on what the rest of the image looks like. The amount of time it takes depends on how big the panorama was. But if you look at what it just invented, it's pretty crazy. It's not perfect by any means at all. But it's usually good enough for skies, because they're usually pretty generic, it can do that easily and for some other areas. Usually things like gravel, where it's organic material that is not a pattern. The problem here is that this is like a tiled ground and there it has to be absolutely precise otherwise it doesn't look right and so if you look down there and you were critical about it, the tiles, they're there but they don't line up with the rest of tiles and things. But if you look up where the sky is, that's fine. And that's the part of the image I was concerned with. So it's not gonna work for areas that have patterns or straight lines and things. But it'll work great with organic material. Shrubbery, rocks, skies, that kind of stuff. So now I'm just gonna take this, and I'm not even gonna crop it here, I'm gonna crop it back in Lightroom. 'Cause then I could always un-crop it if I want to. I'll just type command S to save and then I'll close it. And we'll return to Lightroom, and it should come back here. There we are. And, where is it? There it is. Then I'll hit the letter D to got to Develop. Grab my crop tool and now I'll just crop up. Crop in. But it was the sky that I was worried about right here and I didn't wanna crop that in much. Do that. I might rotate a little bit. Just move my mouse outside the cropping rectangle so I can rotate. And then get out of the crop tool. There we go. So you see how we could fill in some of that so we didn't have to crop quite as closely.
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I feel the title of this class, Travel Photography, is much to limiting for what you are really going to get. As a wedding photographer, who dreams of traveling, I attending the class live in Seattle, and was hoping to get some inspiration for on location shoots. What I got, however, was a WHOLE LOT MORE. I would recommend this class to anyone with a camera and Lightroom. What I learned about how lightroom works and how to integrate it with photoshop is invaluable. I actually think they should charge WAY more for this course. The bonuses with purchase from the keywords (we are talking every key word you could possibly imagine) and the presets (holycow everything you would ever need) are worth exponentially more than the course price itself. Ben is a gentle easy going teacher and nice to listen to. His ease of teaching pretty complex ideas was truly wonderful. If you are reading this you must buy this course, it is well worth it!