| Overview
In this full-color Designer's Notebook, eight expert French
photographers reveal their secrets in using Photoshop and a
collection of dedicated applications to create extraordinary
panoramic photos--including some amazing 360-degree images. For
anyone involved with digital imagery or animation, this
groundbreaking volume demonstrates a new way of thinking about
what's possible and what's required to produce these images.
Originally published in France, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A
Designer's Notebook is available in English for the first time.
Part art book, part how-to guide, this stunning work takes you
right into the studio and sits you down next to renowned digital
artists as they advance step-by-step toward their final images. The
showcased pieces are inspiring and avant-garde, and the techniques
are instructive for a wide range of amateur and professional
photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists. The artists
featured in this Designer's Notebook show how they use Photoshop,
Stitcher, PanaVue ImageAssembler, and other specialized tools to
create high-quality panoramas and wide-angle images from a series
of photos. They also show how to create virtual reality scenes with
Apple's QuickTime VR in conjunction with leading-edge technologies
that support 360-degree one-shot photos, cubic images, and 3D views
of objects. The results are interactive, often startling, and bear
the hallmark of each artist's original vision and skill. Reflecting
the very best of French photography, graphic design and digital
artistry, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook
offers advanced Photoshop instruction that goes beyond opening this
menu, or clicking that palette. You receive expert aesthetic
guidance, from start to finish, with notes and views that reveal
every step of the process. This book is a goldmine for any digital
artist who wants to learn new Photoshop techniques and exploit them
for maximum effect. At home on either your coffee table or desktop,
the book itself is dazzling in concept and design. There's nothing
else quite like this Designer's Notebook available in the U.S.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionIn this full-color Designer's Notebook, eight expert French photographers reveal their secrets in using Photoshop and a collection of dedicated applications to create extraordinary panoramic photos--including some amazing 360-degree images. For anyone involved with digital imagery or animation, this groundbreaking volume demonstrates a new way of thinking about what's possible and what's required to produce these images. Originally published in France, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook is available in English for the first time. Part art book, part how-to guide, this stunning work takes you right into the studio and sits you down next to renowned digital artists as they advance step-by-step toward their final images. The showcased pieces are inspiring and avant-garde, and the techniques are instructive for a wide range of amateur and professional photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists. The artists featured in this Designer's Notebook show how they use Photoshop, Stitcher, PanaVue ImageAssembler, and other specialized tools to create high-quality panoramas and wide-angle images from a series of photos. They also show how to create virtual reality scenes with Apple's QuickTime VR in conjunction with leading-edge technologies that support 360-degree one-shot photos, cubic images, and 3D views of objects. The results are interactive, often startling, and bear the hallmark of each artist's original vision and skill. Reflecting the very best of French photography, graphic design and digital artistry, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook offers advanced Photoshop instruction that goes beyond opening this menu, or clicking that palette. You receive expert aesthetic guidance, from start to finish, with notes and views that reveal every step of the process. This book is a goldmine for any digital artist who wants to learn new Photoshop techniques and exploit them for maximum effect. At home on either your coffee table or desktop, the book itself is dazzling in concept and design. There's nothing else quite like this Designer's Notebook available in the U.S. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 13 reviews. A decent book on digital pano photography, 2008-08-18 Reviewer rating: This is a decent book on digital panoramic photography. It seems to be geared to the Photoshop skilled person. While it's somewhat easy to follow, I found that if you're not familiar with Photoshop you'll have a hard time with this. Thankfully I have used Photoshop quite a bit, so I was ok. It doesn't go as in depth on each image as I'd prefer, but it's good. I find that it gives you enough information to be dangerous. Lots of good ideas on how to process and stitch together your panoramic images. The only downside is that it only really recommends on specific type of panoramic stitching software (Instead of manually doing it in Photoshop) and the one recommended isn't that great. The software they recommend is grossly overpriced and not as easy to use as PTGui in my opinion.
If you are fairly familiar with Photoshop, I totally recommend this book. It'll give you ideas to have fun and play with. | Better off reading off the Internet, 2008-07-29 Reviewer rating: If you're looking to start taking QTVR or the likes kind of photo, you're better off reading off the Internet and/or visiting forums to ask about taking the shot, finding the nodal point, stitching them together, publishing them on the web. This book takes 8 guys who takes 8 different pano then put them into a book. That's about it. You won't learn anything new in terms of technique/s. Like for the one on Almanarre Beach, instead of advising readers how to minimise doing the photoshopping away of waves and people which the book covers a lot, they should have advise users to take as little shots as possible. I guess this book is trying to cover on Photoshop techniques pertaining to pano photographers. | Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook, 2008-06-13 Reviewer rating: I got this book hoping it would be a step by step guide to assist me in developing my work flow and technique on up skilling my panoramic knowledge. But it was not.. it made very simple things overly complicated and some of the most popular great tools available were not highlighted or used. | I found this book to be a great book on artistically making PANORMIC Photos, and More..., 2007-10-06 Reviewer rating: I found this book to be a great book on artistically making PANORMIC Photos, and More...
It is an excellent book in showing different techniques as well as the art of "Assembling" Panoramic pictures. But it is also a work of art in helping you get an idea of the artistic and somewhat abstract way of doing this.
I followed the techniques, for example taking multiple shot of the same subject and then assembling that together, as another example I used the planning that is pointed out in this book, and multiple shots from the same view to make it super high resolution.
I used PhtotoShop for the "Stitching" and I got the same outstanding results.
This is a Great book for photographers.
Bruce Razban
Silicon Valley, CA, USA
| Small but really useful, 2007-02-11 Reviewer rating: This book is small but really comprehensive. Through specific examples people that knows the secret of panoramic photography, gives tips & tricks for a good panoramic photo using normal cameras and lenses.
In the beginning i read it very quick but then i discover more more than even in the smallest paragraph there is a nice tip.
The only "bad" is that most of the writers use realviz stitcher as main stitching program. Why this is "bad"? Because the program costs more than 400 euro. There is also a express release around 100 euro but with limited use.
But the tips and tricks are still there. I personally use PTGui with Pano2cube software and i can use most of this books advices. it is highly recommended for the photographer he wants to involved in panoramic photography. |
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