360 pano is zoomed too far in when editing with PS

[Desert Toad]

Hi all,

I've been playing with 360 panos with my drone for sometime now, but I'm never happy with the sky.  I can get there okay using fill content aware, but I can't fit the entire "hole" on my screen.  I'd like to zoom out more than it allows, and I'm not sure why I can't do it.

Thanks

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi there,

That does not sound right.

Could you please check article and let us know if it helps? https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com/edit-360-spherical-panoramas-photoshop/

Regards,
Sahil

[JJMack]

Why can you not put your 360 piano into Photoshop's 3d Panorama and rotate the hole into view select the hole and use content aware fill. How much sky are you missing?

[Desert Toad]

I know it sounds strange, and I am probably missing something very simple as I was away from photoshop for a number of years.

Here is my pano rotated to the sky:

And when I command - to zoom and and get the entire image on the screen, I get this:

[JJMack]

Can you  show of the stitched spherical panorama protection before  importing it into Photoshop 3d Spherical Panorama or all the layers you created  the 3d Spherical Panorama from. It seems strange to me that the hole is hexagon shaped.  I know nothing about drone stitching  software.  I would like to see the image file or the  layer or layers you had before the 3d Spherical Panorama import.  Post what you imported into Photoshop's 3d  feature.

[Desert Toad]

Here it is as a tiff file from the stitching program (PTGui).

Each row is eight photos, plus one straight down.

I just assumed I had a setting wrong that didn't allow me to zoom out.  Or perhaps I wasn't using the zoom correctly.

[JJMack]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Desert+Toad  wrote

Here it is as a tiff file from the stitching program (PTGui).

Each row is eight photos, plus one straight down.

I just assumed I had a setting wrong that didn't allow me to zoom out.  Or perhaps I wasn't using the zoom correctly.

That is a screen capture Photoshop Screen display not your tiff. Part of your tiff is being displayed at 12.5%  zoom.  From the middle part I can see what I see it look like your drone captured the ground below but failed to capture the Sky above or PTGui delete the sky and drone Airframe stitching the drone images.  Upload the Tiff and post a link to it.  What is the Aspect Ratio of your Tiff File.

Editing the Stitch tiff try selecting the enpty sky transparent are and use content aware fill

[Desert Toad]

The tiff file is over 500mb, I can do one in jpg that would be 50 if it would help.

The hole is the sky is because the drone camera is mounted on the belly and can't shoot straight up.  So content aware is used to fill it in to look better.

Aspect ratio is 2:1  so 19384 x 9692 pixels.

I keep thinking its a setting I've missed in photoshop.

Thanks

[JJMack]

I do not think you missed any setting.  When you a viewing your 360 spherical Panorama in Photoshop 3D Spherical  Panorama  feature  Photoshop displays a rectangular area of your Panoramas a portion of you panorama the scene font of your eyes a field of view  verticals and and horizontal.  A portal to view your panorama.  You can pan your 360 Spherical Panorama Project so you can see of the full 360 view and the 3d view corrects  distortion seen in the tiff 2d flatten projection.   You can zoom in very far out not so. You can not zoom out so so the field of view is 180 degrees.    Looking at the scroll bars visible in you screen capture it is is quit clear to me you drone captured just a little bit of the sky above the horizon. None of the high sky area was capture.,  The Area you missing in your Panorama is so large it larger then the portal Field of view the hole in your sky hole does not fit in the port view.  Content aware file can do just so much I will not do a good job creating a full sky foe you.  You would be better off pasting in one the is approbate

Here is a Panorama I found on the web that has a hole also Not how much sky was captured. When you Import it into Photoshop 3D the Port is vies at 100%. You can zoom way in snr increase the size if the image windo.  Once you zoom out past 100% of port vies Photoshop does not display any image area outsude the port field of view.

[davidb57604764]

I am having exactly the same issue. I can zoom the whole screen, but I can't zoom out enough within the 360 pano to be able to make the sky hole small enough to fill it. There must be a way of doing this in PS surely??

[JJMack]

If the hole is so large that it exceeds the field of view Photoshop 3D  displays the whole hole does not fit in  your view of your panorama.  What you in your view at 100% zoom  is like a 2D image that can be zoomed any content outside that 100% view area can not be zoomed it is not part of your 2D view.

When you look around in your real 3d you do not see the total 3d world around you. Your do not have a  360 field of view. If they did what the see may look something like your stitched panorama the whole hole is visible in that image. The total 360 view is in that image.

[Emilio Vergara]

I'm facing the same issue. Is there a way to zoom out further?

[JJMack]

You can only zoom the part of the 360 Panorama that is in the viewer Field of View. If the hole is very large it may not fit within the viewer field of view. If you zoom out more all that will happen is rendered to be viewed will become smaller on your display. Content outside the field of view is not displayed.  Most likely only the area in the Viewer portal has the 360 Spherical projection distortion  corrected to be viewable and not look distorted. As you pan the 360 spherical projection the distortion is correct so the area looks normal on your display. The field of view is not 360 degrees Your Display can not display a 360 image.  A display would need to be a sphere and you would need to be in the center of the diaplay's  sphere the image would be all around you and if you look up you will see the all of the large hole as you move your head.

[Emilio Vergara]

Hi JJMack.

Thanks for your explanation. Got it. In other words, there's no way to do it.

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In the upper right you can change the Field of View (FOV).