Panos

I am a freshman when it comes to printing panos so this question may be simplistic but here goes.

Is it best to do color corrections, blemish removal, sharpening, etc, on each individual photo prior to putting them into the final pano, or is all of that done after the pano is created.

Thanks

Hi Bob,

I'm no great voice of experience, but on the handful of stitched panoramics I've done I first I merged them, saved them in a lossless format (TIFF in my case) then built adjustment layers (and saved the layered file as a Photoshop file). This was good, because I went back and refined the adjustment layers later in some cases.

Pete D.

I use Autopano Pro to build pano's. If the individual images need white balance correction or dramatic expoure adjustment I will do that in the RAW convertor and save it as a TIF file, then pull it up in APP to to merge. After merging, I then do any necessary post processing on the single file vs the individual images. I would think it would be quite difficult to make any serious corrections to the individual images, especially if you had more than just 2 or 3 individual ones.

It all depends on the size of your files I suppose. I tend to be over zealous with my panoramics so I fall into the same camp as Pete D. To get the most out of my computer I merge the original files and save it to a lossless file type (TIFF or PSD) and then make the needed adjustments. Adjusting the individual files and then merging them can add to the size of your image and burden on your machine. In general its easier to make the needed edits to one file.