This Lightroom tutorial shows you how to use Guided Upright to fix vertical and horizontal lines that are bent. The images were shot with a DJI Inspire 1 Pro drone. You can get rid of barreling and keystoning in your aerial panoramas. This Lightroom tutorial also works in Photoshop Camera the same way, using the latest guided upright feature. This image was shot using … [Read more...] about How to straighten bent buildings in aerial panoramas
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Colin Smith’s 10 Drone Photography Tips to Take Your Imagery to New Height
I was recently interviewed by Jack Neubart for Shutterbug magazine. They did a beautiful 3 page article in the printed Magazine (June 2017 issue). This is the online version of the article from Shutterbug, I hope you enjoy it.. Colin by Jack Neubart | Shutterbug Colin Smith may be known to many readers for his instructional videos and … [Read more...] about Colin Smith’s 10 Drone Photography Tips to Take Your Imagery to New Height
Make a miniature model effect, with drone photos and Photoshop tilt shift effect
When photos look like tiny models, this is the tilt shift effect, to take it further, use a drone to capture the images and then drop in other objects to make tiny worlds, this is really fun and this tutorial shows you exactly how to do it! Step1 Using your drone, find a scene that will work well for this effect. Look for areas that you can add in items of … [Read more...] about Make a miniature model effect, with drone photos and Photoshop tilt shift effect
How to make a 360 Facebook VR pano with a drone and Photoshop
The hottest trend right now is creating interactive 360 panoramas on Facebook. You might have seen them. On a mobile phone, you rotate you can spin around, look up, look down and see all around. Your smartphone becomes like a portal where you are looking into another world with a fully immersive view. It’s really cool and fun. The good news is, it’s really easy to make these! I … [Read more...] about How to make a 360 Facebook VR pano with a drone and Photoshop
How to Update the Firmware on the DJI Phantom 4 video tutorial
How to Update the Firmware on the DJI Phantom 4 video tutorial This tutorial shows you the steps to update the Firmware on the Phantom 4 drones. Its important to keep the firmware updated on your drone to get the optimal performance and stay up to date on the latest features. Also make sure you keep the go app (or Go 4 app) updated too from the Apple Store or the Google … [Read more...] about How to Update the Firmware on the DJI Phantom 4 video tutorial
How to make a tiny planet effect in Photoshop from a drone
I have been asked by a number of people how I create my small planet / tiny planet effect. I didn’t invent the tiny planet, it’s been around a while. I am however, the first to use this with aerial footage and I have come up with some unique and original techniques to get the best quality tiny planet. Using aerial panorama photos shot from a drone. The DJI Phantom quadcopter … [Read more...] about How to make a tiny planet effect in Photoshop from a drone
How to film a car chase with a drone
How to Film a car chase using a DJI Phantom Drone. Using a drone to film a moving car isn’t as easy as you may guess, but the results can be stunning. This is the kind of shot that used to cost a lot of money, now it can be accomplished easily and cheaply using UAV drones, AKA quadcopters or sUAS. You can also use active track to do this on the Phantom 4 / magic and spark … [Read more...] about How to film a car chase with a drone
How to Edit Drone video in Adobe Photoshop CC / CS6
Edit Drone video in photoshop Photoshop has the ability to edit video. In fact.. it’s been there for quite some time. Photoshop CS6 saw a big change in the way that Photoshop works with video and this continues with Photoshop CC. This is a great option for photographers who have shot video on their Drones and need to edit a video without having to learn a dedicated video … [Read more...] about How to Edit Drone video in Adobe Photoshop CC / CS6