Curiosity Rover Composites on GigaPan

Wow Todd - that's friggin awesome. I'll need a while to sit and mooch that one over

Damn I wish mine were even half as good as that!

Sol 1126 - 1144

www.gigapan.com/gigapans/206524

Well I tried and tried to get some sort of finish near Todd's - I dont know what his secret Photoshop recipe is - but that's the 'Bar' I really would like to get close too.

Here goes nothing... lol

Sol 604 Right Mastcam, "The Kimberly" [PDS]

www.gigapan.com/gigapans/206557

mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=#/?slide=604

Looks good to me.

I wonder what's up with the "swiss cheese" rocks, located in the frame just above the big blue rock in the left center. I don't think I've seen a rock with holes in it before unless they'd been drilled, and I don't think these have been.

Must be some weird heat reaction / bubbling? - that's the only thing I can think of..

I thought the blue rock at the bottom of the centre frames was odd too...






Here's my last for today, 3.30 am, and I'm up at 7 for the school run & work lol


Sol 1785 Right Mastcam - false colour

www.gigapan.com/gigapans/206564

mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=#/?slide=1785

Todd wrote:

I dont know what his secret Photoshop recipe is -

My secret recipe is, there is no secret recipe. It depends what each image needs, they're all different, mostly it depends on the lighting and exposure on the original image. I use a lot of photo filters and color corrections, noise reduction and frequently use the smart sharpen function.

He he he - Now I wish there was a secret set formula to creating the Gigapans... The lighting is one of the trickiest things to work with - I have done a few mosaics that look totally "gash" After a couple of hours fighting with them, I usually give up ready to return another dsay when I'm a bit better practiced.

As for the smart sharpen, Its a great function / along with the included noise reduction option - but I find I can go a bit over board and ruin an Image within a few tweaks... I really Need "To Use the Snapshot" option a bit more... Running limited ram and a crap old graphics card - A few times I have purged PS and realised I needed to go a few steps back... Grrrr

I'm still at the very bottom of the scale when it comes to understanding the capability of PS, I kinda blindly march on trying everything I can... 9 times out of 10 it produces utter garbage... every now and then It works

At the mo, I'm dedicating a lot of time to RGB stacking - which isnt easy when you a have single Grey/RGB image - adjusting exposure / brightness / contrast etc... on each channel against a known RGB picture - so far varying results to say the least.


Thanks Again Todd, your advice has been superb so far.

(How about strumming us a bit of Bob Dylan / or Eric Clapton on your Guitar! )

Neal