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Author Topic: Will "removing" shadows etc. impact that final result in photoscan?  (Read 6113 times)

loggie24

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Hi. I'm curious if i try to remove some shadows/highlights in say Lightroom, will it affect the fidelity of the final processed scan? Does Photoscan use those shadows/AO to generate those fine details?

bigben

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Unsharp masking shouldn't affect things too much as long as it's kept within reason.  I normally set fill light to 15-30 in camera raw conversions.

aneverman

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If you are working on topography datasets shadows can introduce elevation error in your DEMs, and results are improved by masking shadow areas.

stihl

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If you are working on topography datasets shadows can introduce elevation error in your DEMs, and results are improved by masking shadow areas.
I would only do this if I'm certain that the masked area which are being interpolated are either completely flat or the DEM shows very large variation because of noise.
I'd prefer slight noise over interpolated (null) regions any day.