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« on: February 14, 2009, 04:31:06 PM »
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I'm not sure if this is the right place? But anyway here's a tutorial how to make a panorama picture with Photoshop  Smiley

The OS I use is Mac OS X 10.5 and Photoshop CS4, But this should be the same in other OS's or Photoshop versions.

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Panoramas are usually set up of multiple pictures, then stitched together.

Start off by taking one picture, f.x. the frame that will be to the far left of the panorama.
then move right to take picture of scenery that did not make it in previous picture.
IMPORTANT!: So photoshop can identify where to glue the pictures together you must have some of the scenery of the first picture on the second picture.

Example:


Now when you've taken all your pictures, you're ready to upload them to your pc and import to Photoshop.

These are the photos I'm going to use.


The more pictures you take for single panorama, the better.

Open Photoshop

Go to File > Automate > Photomerge


In the photomerge panel chose Auto in Layout and then Browse for your pictures, Click OK.


It can take a few minutes for Photoshop to combine the pictures, depending on how big the resolution is.

Here's the result:


Pretty good!

You can see in the Layers panel how the 4 pictures line up.


Then to flatten the image,
Layer > Merge Visible


Now the 4 pieces of pictures is one single picture.


As you saw in the panorama there are areas around the picture that are blank (transparent spots) and we next want to either remove them just by cropping the picture down so they wont be visible or the harder way of recreating the missing bits, I'm going to teach you the easy way Wink

Select the Crop tool and make a selection in the picture that does not cover the missing bits, then press enter:



Now our image is ready, unless you want to adjust lighting, colors, make it black&white etc.

I personally always like to sharpen my images.

Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen




Final result:



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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2009, 04:50:07 PM »
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Hi Hemmi

I use this program - http://www.autopano.net/
i find it better than the photoshop stitch function
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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2009, 04:52:52 PM »
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Hi Hemmi

I use this program - http://www.autopano.net/
i find it better than the photoshop stitch function

Thanks Dave, I'll have a look at it icon_wink
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« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2009, 05:01:07 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2009, 05:05:22 PM »
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Brilliant job Hemmi...thanks for that!!

And thanks Dave for suggesting an alternative.

I'm definitely gonna try this soon!
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« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2009, 03:20:43 AM »
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Hi Hemmi..

Until you mentioned it the other day I didn't know you could do panoramas in Photoshop. I have a couple of versions but don't use them much..

I use a cheap "ArcSoft" program called ArcSoft Panorama maker 3.

Arcsoft  software is often sold for under A$20 in Australia (and this one is easy to use and works well)

P.S. As the others have said great tutorial .. you are a great contributor m8  icon_wink
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« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2009, 11:30:52 PM »
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One thing to be careful with when creating Panoramas is whether or not your camera has any automatic colour/lighting adjustment.

My wife's old hand-held digital camera (as opposed to one of them 5cm+ lens Canon ones) had this option where you can take one picture, then move the camera, and take the other side of the panarama. I took one of the French Alps and got the positioning so perfect it looked like it was just one shot! ... except that the sky got darker towards the centre and then there was a line at which it lightened up and then began to get darker again. If I can find that photo when I get home I'll attach it so you can see what I mean.

Rubix tip: Panorama's are best taken from a tripod that can keep your level the same, but lighting is sometimes extremely difficult.
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« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2009, 04:23:50 AM »
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One thing to be careful with when creating Panoramas is whether or not your camera has any automatic colour/lighting adjustment.

My wife's old hand-held digital camera (as opposed to one of them 5cm+ lens Canon ones) had this option where you can take one picture, then move the camera, and take the other side of the panarama. I took one of the French Alps and got the positioning so perfect it looked like it was just one shot! ... except that the sky got darker towards the centre and then there was a line at which it lightened up and then began to get darker again. If I can find that photo when I get home I'll attach it so you can see what I mean.

Rubix tip: Panorama's are best taken from a tripod that can keep your level the same, but lighting is sometimes extremely difficult.

I've noticed that problem with Photoshop a few times, But the software Dave recommended has a smart filter that automatically fixes this icon_wink

I also find it better to take picture on M mode, instead of Auto. Then I'm certain that all the pictures have the same exposure and shutter time.
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