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AFTER
Digital panoramas are often created
by stitching sequentially shot images
together.
BEFORE
Panoramic images have always been a very inspiring aspect of photography. Until recently,
making these types of pictures has been restricted to a small set of lucky individuals who are
fortunate enough to own the specialized cameras needed to capture the wide images. With
the onset of the latest image-editing packages, software manufacturers have now started to
include features that allow users with standard cameras to digitally create wonderful wide-
angle vistas.
These extra pieces of software are sometimes referred to as 'stitching programs', as their ac-
tual function is to combine a series of photographs into a single picture. The edge details of
each successive image are matched and blended so that the joins are not detectable. Once all
the photographs have been combined, the result is a picture that shows a scene of any angle
of anything up to a full 360°.
Photomerge Panorama (Editor: Enhance > Photomerge Panorama) started its life in Pho-
toshop Elements (it now also exists in Photoshop) and is Adobe's version of the stitching
technology. The feature has undergone a variety of enhancements over the last few releases
so that Photomerge Panorama now includes enhanced support for larger file sizes, better
fine-tuning controls, improved edge-matching capabilities and the ability to produce the
final composition as separate source picture layers. In version 9 two other layout options
were added bring the total to seven and we also saw the introduction of the ability to auto-
matically fill the areas around the stitched panorama with the Clean Edges feature.
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