Blending Night Sky Panoramas in PTGUI and Photoshop with Tim Cooper

Download the companion handout here: https://npan.co/BLEND
Join master photographer and post-processing guru Tim Cooper for an in-depth educational webinar about multi-row panorama processing. Tim will cover how to blend landscape images shot at a different time with night skies.

During this presentation you will experience a complete workflow that starts in Adobe Lightroom Classic, continues on to PTGUI Pro and finished in Adobe Photoshop. Tim will combine images made during twilight with dark sky star points and star trails for results that will take your breath away while still looking natural. 

Bring your notepad and get ready to learn. Enjoy this webinar replay.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
03:26 Presentation starts
06:00 Processing (in Lightroom + Photoshop)
24:40 Applying edits to Pano Sets /Prep for PTGUI Pro
33:35 Initial assembly in PTGUI Pro
44:58 Control points
55:29 Blending/Projections
57:58 Exporting aligned twilight and star pano sequences
01:03:43 Q&A Break
01:12:27 Blending twilight & star panos in Photoshop
01:24:50 Q&A
01:30:54 Wrapup and links

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About Tim Cooper:
Tim is a partner and educator at National Parks at Night. Tim loves photography, and Tim loves teaching. Combining these two passions is how he has spent the last 25 years of his life. He finds that sharing his knowledge, watching people grow and witnessing their excitement as they exercise their creative side is truly satisfying.

While teaching, Tim also began a career as a commercial and assignment photographer working with clients such as The North Face, The Ritz Carlton, Vasque boots, 3M and The International Heart Institute. His editorial and commercial photographs have appeared in Travel & Leisure, The New York Times Magazine, Outdoor Photographer, Fly Rod & Reel, Modern Luxury and Private Clubs as covers, advertising, art and editorial illustration.

Tim is the author of the training videos "Perfect Exposure for Digital Photography," "Perfect Composition," "Magic Light" and "DSLR Camera Basics." He was also the digital tech for many early Photoshop books and co-wrote three books in the series Complete Photoshop for Digital Photographers. His e-books include The Realistic HDR Image and The Magic of Light Painting, and he added a couple of chapters to Gabriel Biderman’s book Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots. Tim’s latest book is HDR Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots.

Links from webinar:
Join waitlist for PROCESSING NIGHT PANORAMAS LIVE
https://www.nationalparksatnight.com/processing-night-panoramas-live-2024

Join mailing list for season 10 workshops, including future on-location Pano Intensive workshops
https://www.nationalparksatnight.com/contact

NPAN on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/nationalparksatnight/

NPAN on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/c/NationalParksatNight

Tim’s tripod is TRIOBALC2830
https://novoflexus.com/triobalance-w-3-section-carbon-fiber-legs-and-mini-legs/

Tim uses VR-System PRO II HD
A Novoflex pano head in stock and very similar: VR-6/8-HD
https://novoflexus.com/novoflex-multi-row-panorama-system-heavy-duty/

#panorama #photoshop #nightphotography #PTGUI

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