24x36 picture of 10 acres

[Mudcat]

Absolutely agree. Was only pointing out an alternative and you rightly point out - Client demands... absolutely. Personally I use a lot of stitch also... been using Lightroom and photoshop for long time... and if I need to go big the NIK collection (once a pretty $$$ suite of photo enhancement tools, then bought by Google I believe then they released it to the world...) has a Sharpener Pro and raw sharpener that does quite good job... now the challenge of adding a uav into the mix is daunting, exciting, addicting and mind expanding all at once.

I would like to buy photoshop for the stitching. Can you tell me what version I need for this, I know the full bodied version can get expensive.. I'm using a mac

 

[DefaultIT]

As I'm a big fan of the cloud pricing, I might suggest the photography bundle (photoshop, lightroom) for $10/mo. The stitching is effortless, and between the two you're set for RAW/DNG work to your heart's content. I think an older second hand license is the only way to buy it outright anymore...photomerge has been around since before Creative Suite so any of the CS versions should be good to go.

 

[Mudcat]

As I'm a big fan of the cloud pricing, I might suggest the photography bundle (photoshop, lightroom) for $10/mo. The stitching is effortless, and between the two you're set for RAW/DNG work to your heart's content. I think an older second hand license is the only way to buy it outright anymore...photomerge has been around since before Creative Suite so any of the CS versions should be good to go.

Thank you! is that 10 bucks a month forever, or until its paid for?

 

[DefaultIT]

Thank you! is that 10 bucks a month forever, or until its paid for?

Membership kind of thing...the main benefit being that you're 'sunscribed' to all updates (no compatibility issues). Also notably mobile, in that you can log your ID in to pretty much any machine any time you want, so you don't have to worry about licensing or even bringing yours with you.

...and the mobile apps, I should mention. There's fun stuff you can do like editing RAW pics by proxy on your tablet, and have your changes synced back to the full version on your main work machine

 

[Mudcat]

Membership kind of thing...the main benefit being that you're 'sunscribed' to all updates (no compatibility issues). Also notably mobile, in that you can log your ID in to pretty much any machine any time you want, so you don't have to worry about licensing or even bringing yours with you.

...and the mobile apps, I should mention. There's fun stuff you can do like editing RAW pics by proxy on your tablet, and have your changes synced back to the full version on your main work machine

Wow! Thank you...I can't wait to see the stitching work after using the Map pilot to plot some property. I still have a problem in that I can't turn the loc off because the slider doesn't show in my DJI go menu? Not sure what to do about that? Boy, its never easy

 

[DefaultIT]

Not sure I follow...loc = GPS?

I've heard that some of the SDK apps require the aircraft to be in ATTI mode to run missions...if that's the case, it's the hard switch on the upper left of the controller (switch to A in the middle).

 

[Mudcat]

Not sure I follow...loc = GPS?

I've heard that some of the SDK apps require the aircraft to be in ATTI mode to run missions...if that's the case, it's the hard switch on the upper left of the controller (switch to A in the middle).

There is a slider under advanced settings that allows you to switch LOC on and off. My menu doesn't have it?
Do you use the Map Pilot app?

 

[PunaPhantom]

That will work only up to a point. I have doubled the pixel resolution in PS with good results. The viewing distance is the biggest factor. The farther away your viewers will be the less resolution you need for a given size print.
Adobe Lightroom has a really great resizing function which works to enlarge the image as part of the printing process.
24X36 is not somthing most will be doing at home so you have to create a file with the pixel dimensions that you can send out. 240 pixels per inch should give you a good print, so the file dimensions in pixels would be 24x240=5760 and 36X240=8640. That will be easy with a stitched file.

Photoshop is good to a point but Nik and Alien are better algorithms to push the digital boundaries... Blow Up - Alien Skin Software imho

 

[Falcon900]

Photoshop is good to a point but Nik and Alien are better algorithms to push the digital boundaries... Blow Up - Alien Skin Software imho

The latest versions of Lightroom are just as good. Pick your poison

 

[Mudcat]

That will work only up to a point. I have doubled the pixel resolution in PS with good results. The viewing distance is the biggest factor. The farther away your viewers will be the less resolution you need for a given size print.
Adobe Lightroom has a really great resizing function which works to enlarge the image as part of the printing process.
24X36 is not somthing most will be doing at home so you have to create a file with the pixel dimensions that you can send out. 240 pixels per inch should give you a good print, so the file dimensions in pixels would be 24x240=5760 and 36X240=8640. That will be easy with a stitched file.

Thank you! just got Photoshop and Lightroom combo.. Now if I can figure out how to use it , I'll be in business

 

[Mudcat]

Use "map pilot" from maps made easy. Simple fully automated job. Fantastic results.


Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots

Does Map Pilot automatically set camera settings for you? I also noticed that at 10 acres at 40 meters high, it will take well over 100 pictures. will photoshop process that many?

 

[DefaultIT]

I don't have map pilot but that strikes me as pretty serious overkill. Start with whatever dpi you want for your final print and work backward from there. For a print that big, I wouldn't bother with much above 150dpi unless you REALLY need to get close and inspect details, and then maybe 300 if you're using an outstanding printer. Even with a lot of overlap you should be in pretty good shape with 2 rows of 5 images. I've never tried anywhere near 100 in photoshop, and imagine it would take a good chunk of RAM and a lot of time do its thing. 10 shouldn't be a problem.

FYI the stitch, I think, is limited to 24bit colorspace so you'll want to rough in the color and exposure before doing that part (in LR this is easy as you can tweak one image to your heart's content an then copy all development settings to the rest)

...also just guessing, but I think a higher altitude will benefit you both for the number of pictures and reduced parallax distortion

 

[Mudcat]

I don't have map pilot but that strikes me as pretty serious overkill. Start with whatever dpi you want for your final print and work backward from there. For a print that big, I wouldn't bother with much above 150dpi unless you REALLY need to get close and inspect details, and then maybe 300 if you're using an outstanding printer. Even with a lot of overlap you should be in pretty good shape with 2 rows of 5 images. I've never tried anywhere near 100 in photoshop, and imagine it would take a good chunk of RAM and a lot of time do its thing. 10 shouldn't be a problem.

FYI the stitch, I think, is limited to 24bit colorspace so you'll want to rough in the color and exposure before doing that part (in LR this is easy as you can tweak one image to your heart's content an then copy all development settings to the rest)

...also just guessing, but I think a higher altitude will benefit you both for the number of pictures and reduced parallax distortion

Thank you! I didn't think about flying and taking the pictures manually. It does make sense though.

 

[Falcon900]

Thank you! just got Photoshop and Lightroom combo.. Now if I can figure out how to use it , I'll be in business

For the best free training on PS and LR, go to adobe.com and search for tutorials by Julianne Kost.

 

[Meta4]

Thank you! I didn't think about flying and taking the pictures manually. It does make sense though.

Mapping software takes a lot of images to have huge overlaps to be able to do full photogrametry and produce contour maps.
If you are just wanting yo make a simple photo of 10 acres there's no need for that level of detail.
Like the example I showed back in post #4 & #6, you can fly and shoot pretty easily manually for a small area like that.
Just make sure you have good overlaps
Photoshop is a very good product but it isn't the best stitching program.
Specialist stitching software does it much better and the free Microsoft ICE is amongst the best.
You'd want to use the Planar projection when you do the stitching.

 

[Mudcat]

Mapping softw. are takes a lot of images to have huge overlaps to be able to do full photogrametry and produce contour maps.
If you are just wanting yo make a simple photo of 10 acres there's no need for that level of detail.
Like the example I showed back in post #4 & #6, you can fly and shoot pretty easily manually for a small area like that.
Just make sure you have good overlaps
Photoshop is a very good product but it isn't the best stitching program.
Specialist stitching software does it much better and the free Microsoft ICE is amongst the best.
You'd want to use the Planar projection when you do the stitching.

Thank you, I'm running a mac for this, but I have a pc. and it sounds like I need the Microsoft Ice
Thanks again! Lord knows I needed the help

 

[Meta4]

Thank you, I'm running a mac for this, but I have a pc. and it sounds like I need the Microsoft Ice
Thanks again! Lord knows I needed the help

Here's another quickie I did last week.
25 acres with 14 images (a couple more would have made the stitching easier).
Go here to see it full screen: Sea - Above & Beyond Photography

 

[Mudcat]

Here's another quickie I did last week.
25 acres with 14 images (a couple more would have made the stitching easier).
Go here to see it full screen: Sea - Above & Beyond Photography

I have noticed that there is a lot of checker boarding on the perimeter of the picture after stitching or merging in Photo shop. when using map pilot, should I always make the perimeter much larger, so I stand a better chance of getting all the picture I need?

 

[Mudcat]

Here's another quickie I did last week.
25 acres with 14 images (a couple more would have made the stitching easier).
Go here to see it full screen: Sea - Above & Beyond Photography

Thanks for your help! I'm having pretty good luck with the stitching. My photo is so large ( over 2 gig) that it won't let me save it? hummm? BTW, my wife and I love you site! Fantastic photos!!!

 

[Falcon900]

Thanks for your help! I'm having pretty good luck with the stitching. My photo is so large ( over 2 gig) that it won't let me save it? hummm? BTW, my wife and I love you site! Fantastic photos!!!

are you using Photoshop? Save it as a .PSB that for Photoshop Big.