GigaPanner

Okay, now this in not exactly what I’d call a time-lapse GigaPan (ask Randy Sargent about those) but this is an innovative use of the GigaPan robot to capture time-lapse sequences, as pioneered by Stoney Vintson of GigaPan Systems.

Scott Telstad, a man who really knows how to make GigaPan Stitcher and Photoshop work together (as evidenced by this before and after pair of GigaPans), has just released three new tutorials on Screencast.com. The first is an introduction to the use of the GigaPan Stitcher with an eye toward fixing up the resulting GigaPan in Photoshop. The second covers the basics of how to use Photoshop to clean up motion artifacts that inevitably occur when subjects move between camera shots. The third adds detail about special circumstances such as when you need to make very detailed corrections or corrections involving multiple projected images.

The second two videos were a revelation to me. If one is willing to put in the work, gigapixel images can be cleaned up down to practically the pixel level using the tools in Photoshop. While I’m not likely to go back and clean up lots of my GigaPans that are already posted, it sure is nice to know how to avoid motion blurs and mis-stitches in the future.