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<p>[QUOTE="Kaleun96, post: 5127560, member: 92635"]It is more complicated than a single photo for sure but once you boil it down to the different steps it's fairly straight-forward! As for the hardware, I believe I have a GTX 1060 6GB, AMD Ryzen 2600x and 32GB RAM (recent upgrade). If you were fast enough, you could pump out a completed image in an hour. When it comes to the photography, most of the time is spent arranging the lighting at the start and then ensuring I'm starting each "substack" of photos from the correct position and stopping once I have in-focus photos of all parts of the coin in-frame. Taking the photos is very quick and the automated motorized setup helps here.</p><p><br /></p><p>The editing isn't too bad. One inefficient part is stacking the different "substacks" as it takes ~5 min per substack to process (in Zerene or similar) and then you have to check the image for issues, save it, remove the images, import the images for the new substack etc. So it's a bit repetitive but could probably be scripted. Microsoft's Image Composite Editor is fantastic and very fast to use for the stitching part though.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No worries! Suarez made some good points that partly explained my reasoning. Some other factors: shooting in RAW would slow my process down as it takes longer to process the images, stack them in software, stitch them together, edit them etc. This was more of a proof of concept so shooting in JPG is perfectly fine. I could covert them to PNG but honestly it'd just increase the file size for not much benefit. When you end up sharing these on the internet, they're going to be compressed by something else anyway and very few people would notice any difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would your approach be to shoot in RAW and then convert to PNG? I had always thought PNG was a bit unnecessary for photography because its benefits are not as easily distinguishable compared to say using PNG instead of JPG for a graphic, icon, or text. But honestly I hadn't considered using PNG compared to "uncompressed" (i.e. not compressed in Lightroom/Photoshop) JPG.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://easyzoom.com/image/229906/album/0/4?mode=manage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://easyzoom.com/image/229906/album/0/4?mode=manage" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> the Photoshop .psd file exported to PNG and uploaded to the same EasyZoom website. It's twice the size but I can't notice any differences in quality - though I know that converting JPG to PNG at the end of the process is not ideal, it does illustrate the file size considerations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kaleun96, post: 5127560, member: 92635"]It is more complicated than a single photo for sure but once you boil it down to the different steps it's fairly straight-forward! As for the hardware, I believe I have a GTX 1060 6GB, AMD Ryzen 2600x and 32GB RAM (recent upgrade). If you were fast enough, you could pump out a completed image in an hour. When it comes to the photography, most of the time is spent arranging the lighting at the start and then ensuring I'm starting each "substack" of photos from the correct position and stopping once I have in-focus photos of all parts of the coin in-frame. Taking the photos is very quick and the automated motorized setup helps here. The editing isn't too bad. One inefficient part is stacking the different "substacks" as it takes ~5 min per substack to process (in Zerene or similar) and then you have to check the image for issues, save it, remove the images, import the images for the new substack etc. So it's a bit repetitive but could probably be scripted. Microsoft's Image Composite Editor is fantastic and very fast to use for the stitching part though. No worries! Suarez made some good points that partly explained my reasoning. Some other factors: shooting in RAW would slow my process down as it takes longer to process the images, stack them in software, stitch them together, edit them etc. This was more of a proof of concept so shooting in JPG is perfectly fine. I could covert them to PNG but honestly it'd just increase the file size for not much benefit. When you end up sharing these on the internet, they're going to be compressed by something else anyway and very few people would notice any difference. Would your approach be to shoot in RAW and then convert to PNG? I had always thought PNG was a bit unnecessary for photography because its benefits are not as easily distinguishable compared to say using PNG instead of JPG for a graphic, icon, or text. But honestly I hadn't considered using PNG compared to "uncompressed" (i.e. not compressed in Lightroom/Photoshop) JPG. [URL='https://easyzoom.com/image/229906/album/0/4?mode=manage']Here's[/URL] the Photoshop .psd file exported to PNG and uploaded to the same EasyZoom website. It's twice the size but I can't notice any differences in quality - though I know that converting JPG to PNG at the end of the process is not ideal, it does illustrate the file size considerations.[/QUOTE]
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