Monday, November 24, 2008

PANORAMA FROM MULTIPLEPHOTOS

You can combine multiple photographs into onecontinuous image to create a panorama. For example,you can take two or more overlapping photographs of ascenic horizon, or even a number of scans of parts of alarge document, and then assemble them in Photoshopwith the Photomerge command. You can combinephotos that are tiled horizontally as well asvertically.Although you can also choose to position andblendthe images manually using Interactive Layout,the Photomerge command in Photoshop CS3 is more powerful than the previous version, automaticallyaligning and blending each layer using individuallayer masks.To make the merge as successful as possible,photosor scans intended for merging should have anoverlap of 25 percent to 40 percent. Also maintainthe same exposure for each photograph and keep thesame scanning settings for each scan. Using a tripodto keep the camera level when taking the photos alsoimproves the final merge.


1 In Photoshop, click File.
2 Click Automate.
3 Click Photomerge.


4 Click Browse.The Open dialog box appears.
5 Navigate to and select theimages to merge.
6 Click Open.


7 Click Auto.
8 Make sure that BlendImages Together isselected.
9 Click OK.


10 Click the Crop tool.
11 Click and drag across the blended image tomake your final panorama.
12 Click the Commit button in the Optionsbar.The panorama is cropped to the selectededges.

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