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How to Make a Panorama Composite from Drone Photos

By Yingjian (Jason) Pan '18

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Aerial Section

Step 1. Download DronePan, a free panorama app for DJI devices.

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Step 2. Fly to the desired place and change the mode to F

Step 3. Open DronePan (make sure open DJI GO before using DronePan). Check if the drone model matches or not. Then hit the setting button on the top right.

Step 4. Change the number of photos per row. I usually set it to 8 or 12.

Step 5. Scroll down and change number of rows. Phantom models do not support Sky Row, so we need to add the sky on manually through photoshop. Hit “Save” when you done.

Step 6. Hit “Starting Pano”, then wait until it finishing taking all the pictures.

Step 7. Manually take a picture of the ground (facing directly downward). Now you should have (# of rows) X (# of pictures per row) + 1) pictures in total.

Step 8. When everything is finished, switch to mode P and fly back.

Editing Section

Step 1. Download photo stitching software, PTGui for Mac.

Step 2. Open PTGui, hit “Load Images”, select the images and then hit “Open”

Step 3. You can see all your images is uploaded.

Step 4. Hit “Align Images” to combine pictures.

Step 5. You can see the finished panorama picture pops out.

Step 6. Hit “Create Panorama”. Change the settings to size to 8000*4000, change he quality to 100%. Then create panorama.

Step 7. You will see a finished panorama pictures(in the format of .jpg) pops out.

Step 8. Open PhotoShop, drag the picture in.

Step 9. Drag the sky picture in, set it to the same width as the panorama picture. Create a mask

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Step 10. Change the color accordingly. Use gradient tool on the left side and drag the center point upward to create a gradient effect.

Step 11.Combine Layers and export the picture.

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WOOHOO!

                                     *** The End***


 

tags: Drone, Composite
categories: Tutorial
Thursday 05.03.18
Posted by Yingjian Pan
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