How To: Edit and Stitch RAW DNG Images From RICOH THETA Z1 with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC and THETA Stitcher

@Juantonto, thanks for sharing this.

Original

Reduce highlights.

-23

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Increase Shadow

+61
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Bottom or right sphere.

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Increase Clarity

+31

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Reduce Noise - Luminance

24

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Increase Sharpening

from 40 to 49
Recovers detail lost by noise reduction
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Fix Chromatic Aberration

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Increase Exposure

+0.35

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Dropped Highlights

-41

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Draft Before Stitching

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Stitch

Sam has set as a pre-set.

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Adjust Image Centering

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Back in Lightroom

Bring down highlights

-15

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Bring up shadows

+31

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Bump up clarity

+22
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Original Compared to Developed

Dark areas have good detail.

Fixing Minor Noise

Increase Luminance

+14

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Increase Sharpening

+11
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Final

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Troubleshooting

Every few days, I read on Facebook about people having problems with the stitcher. Here’s another example of problem and solution. This one again relates to the file name. I am sharing again because the question keeps coming up and I am just trying to share the information widely.

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