ALCE and 360° panoramic images

Two suggestion for ALCE processing of equirectangular images to be used building 360 degree panoramas.   By Davide Barranca   Equirectangular images, the ones used to build those beautiful, immersive, 360 degrees panoramas, may require some extra attention...

The False Profile – Multiply Technique

When my dear friend and co-blogger Giuliana Abbiati coded a free Photoshop CS5 extension called “False Profiles” I suggested her to add some quick and dirt illustrated examples; then we started wondering that false profiles are a simple yet powerful tool, which may...

Notes on Sharpening

Sharpening with Gaussian and edge-aware blurring kernels; a new experimental approach on High-Radius Low-Amount sharpening; how to separately target edges and texture in the same high frequency range. Gaussian, Bilateral and Mixed pyramid decompositions, efficient...