![]() ![]() I was able to use the “Google Drive” desktop app to sync the files to my computer. Since the photos were already in the cloud, he just had to share the files with me. ![]() Getting the Files: Google DriveĬhris backs up all of his photos to Google Drive. Three different pieces of software were used, various Photoshop filters applied, and lots of hours spent perfecting it. Over the course of 1 and a half months, I got the original RAW files from Chris, imported the photos into Lightroom, re-processed each individual photo, stitched them into several panoramas and then blended various exposures together. It needed to be re-printed and that’s where I come in. It was time to re-process the photo and use the latest Photoshop, Lightroom, panoramic stitching and luminosity masking techniques. SmugMug has also grown over the years and the Media Room that’s been its home for the last 6 years has also changed, no longer serving as our home for watching movies and thereby negating the need for the photo to be super dark. Over the course of time, though, it’s seen better days, most notably thanks to a pot of flying coffee. Originally printed in 2009, its been gracing our walls ever since. Featured in the San Jose Business Insider and the Huffington Post, this amazing wrap-around print attracts tens of people each week to visit all the stunning photos at our headquarters. Over 2 days, Chris took 336 photos with a long telephoto lens (the Canon 300mm f/2.8L for those lens junkies out there!) and his trusty Canon 5D Mark II and turned these two evenings into one of the most visited photos in Silicon Valley. That’s because you’re looking at a giant panoramic photo taken by SmugMug co-founder Chris MacAskill. You stare at a storm burning the sky in front of you. The Bay Bridge, the Ferry Building, Coit Tower, and the Golden Gate Bridge envelope you. Read a full list of new features in Autopano 3.0ĭownload the trial version of Autopano 3.It may be a 45 mile drive between SmugMug headquarters in Mountain View, California and Treasure Island, in San Francisco, but when you walk into our headquarters you find yourself surrounded by San Francisco. The Pro edition of the software costs €199 (around $260) the Giga edition, which offers improved support for third-party tools, costs €479 ($620). However, workflow has also been significantly overhauled, with the image editor now working in “real time at a pixel-accurate precision”, and the addition of a preview mode to test panoramas prior to rendering.Īccording to Kolor’s marketing tagline: “Just three easy clicks are enough to do what other image-processing software needs minutes for.”Īutopano 3 is available now for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The high-end Giga edition of the software also gets a new Mask tool, enabling users to control more precisely which elements of a scene are rendered into a panorama – good for eliminating the camera itself. ![]() The main new feature in Autopano 3.0 is the addition of five new projection types for stitched panoramas: some, like Panini and Little Planet bringing the software into line with tools like PTGui others, like Hammer, unique to Autopano – to the best of our knowledge, at least. Kolor has released Autopano 3.0, the latest update to its line of image-stitching tools.
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