A Panoramic - Moro Rock

[alwayslearning]

I took four photos from my visit to Moro Rock at Sequoia National Park and put them in Photoshop CS3 to try out the photomerge feature. It's GREAT! (CS3 that is; not necessarily my photo(s))

This was using my Sony H2.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/1216/1198618628.jpg

Larry

[alwayslearning]

I'm thinking a great application for this merge thing would be in a wedding. When getting a photo of the whole wedding party from left to right during the wedding, you have to zoom out so much to get everyone that they are distant and there is a lot of junk above and below. With this, I could zoom in a lot and get maybe two folks at a time, merge and voila, a "close up" from far away. Better detail, you can actually see the face of the person in the photo, etc.

Larry

[DivotDan]

I did just that. This was a wedding in which I was videographer, and these were a couple of pics from the photographer I hired to shoot for me. You can see the merge in the back ground if you point it out, but it did an awesome job merging the foreground. These were only 2 pics.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/1964/1198643481.jpg

[MattinSTL]

That's pretty amazing! I've been playing with Autostitch and I think CS3 beat them at their own game. From my results so far... I've been somewhat pleased... but mostly I've just been thrilled with the novelty of a new technique.

Perhaps I just need to work at it more, but so far I've felt that Autostitch isn't ready for groups of people. I don't mind a break in a horizontal line across the top of a door or window, but you couldn't get away with having that same adjustment on a forehead!

It looks like CS3 handles that pretty well. How much work did you have to do to smooth out the blending over the people at the seam?

[DivotDan]

For the people I did nothing. One was framed a little higher than the other so I had to crop the top and bottom a little to make an even line, but other than that I did nothing. Here are the originals.

Here are the links to the originals if you would like to play around with it.

http://www.divotfilms.com/ebay/JMP_6029.jpg
http://www.divotfilms.com/ebay/JMP_6030.jpg

[alwayslearning]

I did it the hard way the first time. I opened the photos, unlocked them and dragged them all into the same window, closed the unneeded windows and had the program merge them and then had the program blend them and then cropped to get rid of the unevenness on the top and bottom. My son comes along and says, "Dad, just go to File ----> Automate ----> Photomerge. Select the photos you want and click ok." They all imported, merged and blended in one step! Cool. Love those17 year olds. :) All I had to do was crop away the jaggies.

The blend function does perfect pixel to pixel blending and you cannot tell they were merged. No doing anything. The program handles it.

I'm getting ready to try a vertical merge and then something like 4 shots merged with two on top and two on the bottom to make one, high res photo of something large.

Larry

[alwayslearning]

A very cool interactive panoramic tutorial.

http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2007/issue19-photoshop.html

Larry