john_houghton

<p><em>Jeff Owen wrote: "I am in my 70s and have been very reluctant to change from W7"</em><br> Just for the record, I am coming up to 77 myself, and when I said I was running CS2 without problems on W10, I should have said I specifically checked all the things you said were not working, and they are ok here. I have W10 on 2 PCs and a laptop and they are all fine, though I use the two permitted copies of CS6 on two of the machines.<br> If you have an up-to-date backup of your system, you could do a W10 update safe in the knowledge that you could easily revert to W7 if necessary. But if you really want to hang on to W7, then you might consider reinstalling that, since you have already tried reinstalling CS2.</p>

<p>I have CS2 working on a Win10 64bit PC without any problems. I suggest you upgrade while it's still free.</p>

<p>Here's my effort at correction:<br> <img src="http://www.johnhpanos.com/temp/flare.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p> </p>

<p>I suggest that you download DNG Converter 9.1 from the Adobe web site.</p>

<p>I tried the Hue/Saturation adjustment tool in CS6: the sliders were set to -56, +36, -58 and the colour range set to blue tones.</p><div></div>

<p>Tim, After specifying the screen resolution in Prefs, you can then use the View->Print Size option to display an image at its default print size, as shown on the Image Size dialog - i.e. the "Document Size".</p>

<p>There is one particular situation for which it is important to flatten before resizing and it really does matter. This concerns images covering a full 360 degrees when the left hand edge must exactly match the right hand edge at the wrap join when viewed in a spherical viewer (as in Google street view for example). If you resize before flattening, you will as often as not get a visible pale vertical line at the join where the images butt together. The line is formed from lighter versions of the edge pixels.</p>

<p>Q1. No<br> Q2. No<br> Q3. No<br> The angle of view is the problem, and that is determined solely by the position of the camera. Moving the camera further away is the solution, if possible.</p> <p>Q4. Linear panoramas only work for flat subjects. You could shoot the multiple images from inside the boundary fence, but that would give you a very boring image, and there's still the sticky out bit at the entrance to cope with.</p> <p>In PTGui, you can choose the output projection in three ways:<br> 1. Switch into Advanced mode (button to the right of the Project Assistant) and select the Panorama Settings tab.<br> 2. On the Panorama Editor window, click on the Projection menu.<br> 3. On the Panorama Editor window, click one of the projection icons (sphere, cylinder etc).</p> <p>However, in Photomerge, instead of selecting the Auto format, you should select the Perspective option - which shows the familiar bow tie thumbnail.<br> Another stitcher you can try is the free Microsoft ICE, which will give you just the same result.</p>

<p>The distortion in your image is a consequence of the projection chosen for the output (cylindrical), and the large angle of view of the panorama. In that projection, the only straight line features that are preserved are verticals and the horizon. All other straight line features become curved. To get all straight line features straight, you need to select the rectilinear (planar) projection for the output. However, the angle of view is then limited to around 120 degrees, above which you get an unacceptable degree of stretching at the corners and edges. There's also a general "bow tie" effect on the general image outline. I converted the image to rectilinear format using PTGui and limited the angle of view somewhat to give a decent result (some cloning of the sky was necessary to counter the bow tie effect):<br> <img src="http://www.johnhpanos.com/remap.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>This post re. the same problem on CS2 may offer a solution:<br> http://wetpixel.com/articles/adobe-photoshop-cs2s-bridge-and-camera-raw-defaults</p>