Wednesday, July 20, 2011

photoshop panorama

There are 2 ways to combine several photos and create a panoramic photo.

First:
open all your photos
check the image size (image menu - image size)
create a new file with enough space for all 3 (3 photos that are 8x10" means you need a new file that's 8x30")
copy and paste the first 2 photos
drop the opacity on one photo so you can see through to where it matches up (50% or so)
use your transform tools (skew, distort or warp) to make it match
play with the puppet warp (edit-puppet warp) to add pins and adjust multiple anchor points
clean the seam (if it's really obvious) with the erase tool, and adjust the opacity to nibble
adjust color balance or brightness/contrast if color or values differ
keep adding other files
use the crop tool to tidy up the borders and delete unused negative space

Or:
go to File-Automate-Photomerge
select the source files (I use 'add open files' to keep it simple) and hit OK
this merges things automatically, but it doesn't always do the best job, so you may need to use the steps above to tidy up

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