Game-Changing AI for Virtual Tours!

Photoshop’s Generative Fill feature unlocks NEW editing capabilities for 360 photographers to take their virtual tours to the next level! In this video, I’ll share how to use it for best results.

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🕑 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Programs you'll need
1:07 Choose your viewpoint (Affinity)
2:04 Selection in Photoshop
2:26 Using Generative Fill
4:19 Merging in Affinity Photo
4:50 Removing tripod & fixing stitching errors
6:17 Virtual staging
7:17 Final thoughts

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[BenClaremont]

CORRECTION: You CAN still enter 360 mode in the latest beta release (it's just a bit laggy when you move around)... 3D > Spherical Panorama > New Panorama Layer From Selected Layer. Then, use generative fill, and don't forget to 'Merge Down' the generated layer BEFORE you start moving the viewpoint around.

Also kinda weird that the message '3D features are being discontinued' has been showing up for 2 years now yet they haven't fully removed them 🤔

[lewisrealty]

Great stuff, I stopped deleting the tripod from my 360 images a while back, I just figured most people aren't going to look straight down in a 360 tour (unless you are looking down from a railing or loft) so I just set the pitch limit in Kuula so you can't see the tripod. Saves me a little bit of editing

[danielhertrich]

When working with Pano2VR to produce the Virtual Tour, you can use its "Patch" feature instead of the entire Affinity Photo extracting and merging process. Same kind of process in principle, but less error-prone, because you don't have to take care not to move the 360° view while editing externally in Photoshop, and the extract / merge is done automatically, without any manual dealing with files. Thanks for the great video! :)

[dustingardner]

Hi Ben! We are supportive & enthusiastic fans of your work and contributions to our growing VR / 360 community here at Reality Capture Experts! Just wanted to add a quick comment here to say THANK YOU :-)

[ImmersionImagery]

I was using the new beta of Photoshop Dec 2023 and I was using generative fill to fix some stitching issues using the 3D feature. Still working and saves the extra step (although saving opinions has always been limited)

[panotour_de]

With pano2VR, the "merge process" you describe is much easier. One click and a patch is created that can be opened immediately in Photoshop. In addition, the spherical perspective is converted to 2D. I love pano2VR in combination with the new Firefly engine!

[boruchlen]

Brilliant! Love the ideas. I'll definitely add these into my workflow.

[deeperblue]

Wow...really impressive. So far I haven't been into 360 cams, though I randomly follow your content. Amazing work - keep it going!

[davidzfr]

I think Adobe recommended avoiding Instructions (add or remove stuff), but using Descriptions (of the object, scene you want it to generate). Furthermore, to remove unwanted object, you can just leave empty and click generative fill directly. By default, it will remove selected unwanted object of the scene and blend it well.

[EugenioTrainer]

What is your opinion about 3d Nerf for virtual tours, such as the work that you can do with Luma?
Awesome channel and, as always, great videos.

[josephdl]

Cool Ben...learning a lot from your channel...Thanks!

[Sparky_D]

Impressive how it gets the couch shadow on the wall correct for couch design

[stevenfeken]

This works amazingly for removing unwanted shadows, people, etc instantly!

[joelarnol]

Bonjour, merci pour ces excellentes explications, cela va changer le flux de travail

Hello, thank you for these excellent explanations, it will change the workflow

[brianharrisonlightscape]

Unbelievable! This is so awesome thanks for sharing.

[KooqsAI]

Great video. Now I have to switch from Luminar New (one time purchase) to Photoshop (subscription). But generative fill is next level.

[KaiTiura]

AI is so perfect for 360º photos!!! I've been thinking about this ever since I started using Ps Beta and Generative Fill. You can just select an area to fix and tell it nothing and 90% of the time it just fixes it! Removing shadows and reflections of the camera and tripod... simple. Remove people... simple. Add things, adjust things, stuff that would have taken hours... SIMPLE! And as you can see, it detects the angle of the sun and adds shadows on things you put in and puts them in the right area. Crazy! I LOVE Ps Beta's Generative Fill!

[multimediafabrik]

Hi @BenClaremont, I have a very weird and seemingly very specific problem with the Insta360 X3 to GSV workflow. I followed your tutorial/X3 review video from ~6months ago and got myself the GPS remote control, since the connection with phone (iOS or Android) regularly disconnects during a shoot. I can do the 5.7K variation just fine - the gps is correct and I can upload it on GSV. I am not happy enough with the image quality though, so I opted for the interval mode 72MP every 3s variation. And here is the problem (with which the Insta360 support couldn't help at all, they basically said it should work and that's it - but it doesn't):
The GPS coordinates are totally whack when shooting interval or just regular photo mode - I am in Austria and all of the pictures I took show up as if I was running hundreds of kilometers in the ocean next to Yemen. The route itself looks correct in relation to each individual point - it does show up how it should, but the scale and the location is just wrong. Do you get how I mean it? :S
First I thought the coordinates might for whatever reason "just" be swapped, but even then the issue of the photos being ~100km apart from eachother and after swapping the lon and lat they appear somewhere around Hambourgh, Germany (~10h away from where I am).

Do you have ANY idea what the problem could be? Or even better: how to solve the issue?

I hope you read this ^^'

Thanks in advance and have a nice day,
Ivo

[AssumedTiger]

Hi, is there a way to capture 360 photos on iphone? Any video links?

[ImAlecPonce]

nice, I have both but never thought about this!!!!