I usually use an “extract floor” script from ptgui or autopano that returns a distorted square of the floor in rectangular coordinates, but then I have to bring the distorted image slice into Photoshop, do the image correction as normal, and finally run an “insert floor” script on the corrected floor slice. This renders a more accurate unwrapping distortion of the equirectangular projection, but 9 times out of 10 it feels like complete overkill, especially for ground elements with lots of noise like grass, sand, gravel, etc. I will be using this Photoshop-only approach moving forward for lots of projects! Thanks for the time-saver Svendus!
@Svendus, thanks for the great details. Very useful. Affinity Photo looks very useful and for $49 it looks like a decent price. Your two techniques of using the Inpainting Brush Tool and the Clone Tool to easily get rid of the tripod and the red dots is super clear.
Also, possibly unintended, but seeing your download tool - Firefox Add-on Video DownloadHelper - is a great tip, too. I always end up googling video download tools. It’s nice to see what you are using.
How often do you use Affinity Photo? Have you been using it long?
@jcasman We have used Affinity Photo from the first version when they launched the application, there are also a very powerfull version for iOS (iPad Pro)
Is it better on iPad? I know some community members (like @Bob_White) who seem to prefer lots of different types of editing on iPad. Do you use a stylus pen when editing? Is that an advantage?
The pen are endeed powerfull and precise, but i hate to say it
IOS inbuilt file sharing
are rather horrible, you must have a 1 TB Dropbox to work it out properly, so we prefer to work on the Mac and PC versions
