When PTGui gives me these kinds of bands I use the patch tool. Quicker than cloning & tends to work better than the spot healing brush.
DS On 27 February 2010 09:39, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: CheekyGeek >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/4389949847/ >> >> If you view the full size image (click all sizes and then Original) >> you'll see weird lines in the sky. >> I'm guessing these are stitching artifacts (used Microsoft ICE). >> Can anyone educate me the best way to handle them in post processing? >> I have Photoshop CS2. >> Thanks in advance. > > My technique might be labor intensive but it's worked for removing other sky > artifacts and it is not readily detectable. > > I'd start by zooming out until the lines are barely visible instead of > trying to work on them full size. I occasionally switch between full size > (ctrl+alt+0) & fit to screen (ctrl+0) then go back to whatever level of zoom > I'm working at. > > I am, of course, a Windoze guy ... Mac has different hot keys. > > Create a new layer, a copy of the background copy layer (ctrl+j). > > I make a selection using the lasso tool, feather it a lot and alternate > between a real soft clone stamp, spot healing brush and the blur tool just > to break the visible edges. I just stomp away at it until I can no longer > see the lines. > > Then I make a selection on another area that has lines I want to get rid of > ... rinse and repeat as necessary. > > I create the new layer in case it doesn't work or I get in a hurry and > become ham handed. Muck it up and I can just trash the buggered up layer, > create another new layer and start over. > > Periodically as I get part of it right I merge the new layer with the > existing background copy to save the work I've already managed to get done. > > Alternatively, you can select the whole sky with the magic wand tolerance = > some low value ~ 5 works well, and then apply gaussian blur to the whole > area. > > Some combination of the several approaches seems to work best. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
