Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorials
Automation / Photomerge
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Whenever I go on vacation, I always try to get fancy and try to put together my own panorama. And it's pretty much an image that's going to be pretty long so it can fit in a custom frame. In this case, I went to London and I have this image and as you see here, I took this one shot and then on my second shot, I made sure to get the same elements in there so they could overlap somewhat. So I had this tower here, this tower, and then I have in this image, the rest of the building as well as some overlap as well. The idea is that I know that Photoshop can then build this together for me and match the pixels so that the lines from one image to the other won't be seen. Now, of course, you can manually do this yourself. You can, you know, have a document open and you could have three layers, those are your images and you could just try to move them around and nudge them, but why do that when Photoshop is your buddy and Photoshop will do the work for you and won't even ask for a paycheck? So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to a very cool automation feature called file, automate, and then we're going to go all the way to the bottom, photo merge. The dialog box will appear and you can choose a layout. Auto usually works quite well. You can also use perspective, cylindrical to have Photoshop try to remove any distortions in your camera. You can also use reposition only, which will kind of put the images together like this as you see here. It's not going to try to match it up too nicely. It's going to just look at the images and try to give you the best match possible. And you have interactive layout, where you can help Photoshop to put this thing together. And to me that defeats the purpose of using this filter because I want Photoshop to do the work for me. Well, I can then choose two or more files to merge into a panorama and I'm going to use the files instead of a folder and I can choose the add and open files. In this case I have three files open, so I'll click here and those will find their way into this dialog box. And this part will blend the images together for me so I don't have to go through the edit menu where we saw that blend option before when we did the auto align. We don't have to use the auto blend. We can go ahead and just use this. It's the same thing. Now that I have these three selected, I'm going to click OK. Then Photoshop is going to do what I call the famous Photoshop dance show spectacular with the light show going on with all the flashing and it's going to analyze the pixel data and the tonal qualities in each of the three images. Then it's going to give us one complete image that's going to look great. So we'll just wait for Photoshop to do it's thing. Now, as you see here, it's blending the pixel information and it's almost done and you'll be amazed at the result. How, how cool is that? This is our final result here. Let me open up the layers and show you that we have three layers and layer masks that Photoshop adds so it can go ahead and do all it's blending and the image is perfect as far as there are no lines that separate the images. What we can do then is crop the image, so we can either draw a rectangular marquis and use the crop menu or we can go ahead and use the crop tool itself and draw out a nice boundary like so, getting the information that you like in this image and you want to get as much as possible. I can double click and now I have a perfect panorama that I can now put in a frame, all based on using the tool automated feature, photo merge.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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