Automating Photomerge Question: Bit Depth & Color Space
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 9:52 pm
Greetings,
I've taken the Photomerge script that several from this forum worked out a couple of years ago (mostly Mike Hale; starting in Aug 2009, it appears) and augmented it for my needs. It works great and I'm sincerely thankful to everyone who put in the effort to figure this out. While I've only used this script once to make about a dozen panoramas, I'm so thankful for all of the hours that it's going to save me in the future. I just wish that I'd found this script a year or so ago.
But, I do have a couple of issues that I can't figure out/work out, where I'd like to make some improvements for my workflow. Prior to using this script, I would start in Lightroom (LR), select the several images that I wanted to use to make my panorama, and then use the external editor function in LR to pass the files to Photoshop and start the panorama photomerge process. In my LR external editor settings, I choose to pass 16-bit, ProPhoto RGB files to PS and that's the final result of my panorama photo merge. And, in this workflow, it wasn't automated, so I had to babysit my computer, which is what I'm trying to get away from.
When I now run this Panorama script, however, my generated panorama is returned to me as an 8-bit, Adobe RGB file. I've been searching and searching for a way to open my files in PS as 16-bit, ProPhoto RGB files (and can't find a way). And, scripts don't work with LR, from what I can tell.
Does anyone know:
1) how to to open my files in PS as 16-bit, ProPhoto files; or,
2) how to script the process starting with LR; or,
3) how there might be another way to do this (through Bridge? which I don't [yet] know); or,
4) should I just be thankful for the script that I have?
Thanks for your consideration!
Tim Mulholland/Illuminata Photo
Fitchburg, WI
I've taken the Photomerge script that several from this forum worked out a couple of years ago (mostly Mike Hale; starting in Aug 2009, it appears) and augmented it for my needs. It works great and I'm sincerely thankful to everyone who put in the effort to figure this out. While I've only used this script once to make about a dozen panoramas, I'm so thankful for all of the hours that it's going to save me in the future. I just wish that I'd found this script a year or so ago.
But, I do have a couple of issues that I can't figure out/work out, where I'd like to make some improvements for my workflow. Prior to using this script, I would start in Lightroom (LR), select the several images that I wanted to use to make my panorama, and then use the external editor function in LR to pass the files to Photoshop and start the panorama photomerge process. In my LR external editor settings, I choose to pass 16-bit, ProPhoto RGB files to PS and that's the final result of my panorama photo merge. And, in this workflow, it wasn't automated, so I had to babysit my computer, which is what I'm trying to get away from.
When I now run this Panorama script, however, my generated panorama is returned to me as an 8-bit, Adobe RGB file. I've been searching and searching for a way to open my files in PS as 16-bit, ProPhoto RGB files (and can't find a way). And, scripts don't work with LR, from what I can tell.
Does anyone know:
1) how to to open my files in PS as 16-bit, ProPhoto files; or,
2) how to script the process starting with LR; or,
3) how there might be another way to do this (through Bridge? which I don't [yet] know); or,
4) should I just be thankful for the script that I have?
Thanks for your consideration!
Tim Mulholland/Illuminata Photo
Fitchburg, WI