Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Using Photoshop
One of my favorite features in Lightroom 4 makes it easy to use
one of my favorite features in Photoshop—the Photomerge feature,
which automatically and seamlessly stitches panoramas together.
Step One:
In Lightroom's Grid view, select the
photos you want to stitch together
(the images shown here are of the
city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, taken
from the walls that surround the old
city). Here I've selected a series of six
photos, and when I shot these, I made
sure each photo overlapped the next
one by around 20%, because that's
about how much overlap Photoshop
needs between images to stitch these
six photos into one single panoramic
image. Once the photos are selected,
go under the Photo menu, under Edit
In, and choose
Merge to Panorama
in Photoshop.
Step Two:
The dialog that will appear is Photoshop's
Photomerge dialog (shown here), and
in the center of the dialog, you'll see the
names of the six images you selected in
Lightroom. In the Layout section on the
left side, leave it set to Auto, so Photo-
merge will automatically try to align and
blend the images together for you, then
click the OK button in the upper-right
corner of the dialog.
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