Can I retouch an HDR panorama, e.g. to remove ghost images of moving people?
This is possible, but you need an image editing program capable of handling layered HDR files. As far as we know this can currently only be done in Photoshop CS3 Extended. The regular edition of Photoshop CS3 or earlier versions do not support 32 bit layers. Also, PTGui Pro currently does not create layered HDR files but you can assemble one manually as follows: • In PTGui Pro, Create Panorama tab, enable the HDR Panorama output component • Also enable either the Individual HDR Layers or the HDR Blend Planes output components. The latter is sufficient for removing ‘ghost’ images of objects which moved while the bracketed images; the Individual HDR Layers give even more control. • Choose ‘HDR file format: Photoshop’, settings: 32 bit • After stitching, open all resulting files in Photoshop. • In Photoshop, activate the HDR Panorama (called xxxx_hdr.psd). Right click on the ‘Background’ layer in the Layers palette and choose ‘Layer from background’. • Activate one of the other output fil
