Cheers to PS for Photomerge

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So I am one of those that is far from a PH guru, and I was trying to make a panoramic photo from a few taken by panning on a tripod. When I was mounting it I realized that my stupid (but really great) little Canon A630 has the threaded mount about one inch away from the imager's axis... so I go back and spend like an hour faking the joints between each picture... aghhh! but! I did quite the phenomenal job! :)

hahaha... you guys should have seen my face when I moved on to an HDR I also had shot... I noticed this little thingy... called "Photomerge" .... "hmmm" I saif to myself... "mahhh" I said to myself wanting to believe that PH couldn't do what I had just done... OF COURSE NOT! It wound't FAKE it... it uses MATH, it get's it RIGHT! and in under 30seconds! AAAGHHHH~~~


I am happy that I found it, but still wish I had looked at what the program I am using can already do before spending so much time
and an other nice token, the photo came out very well
 
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Great photo.

It does do a good, but you need to watch and sometimes make adjustments to the merged photo. Also, make sure "Enhaced Blending" or whatever it is is on.

There is a very visible line where those photos merge on the right, the grass and bushes. Somtimes you still have to go back to ye old Clone Stamp and Healing brush.
 
what I do see is that I should finish cleaning up the "extension" of the photo on the bottom right corner
 
Hans Moleman said:
It's easily my favorite feature, next to HDR merge
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same for me, then again those are the only two I looked for... what do the others do?
BTW, that's a nice and long one... I want to do one light that, just have to find something to do it of and for. Was that taken with a polarizer?
 
Do you rotate the camera on a tripod as you take pictures or do you take a picture, shuffle to the right, take another, shuffle some more, etc?
 
Tripod, but I bet PS will do a great job even if handheld, if that's what you mean by shuffle... but if what you mean by shuffle is to move to the side as if on a dolly then that would have bee a 500ft shuffle :D
 
Second pic looks perfect. No obvious seems, very well blended, very evenly lit.

I don't think you went over the top with the color, I think it looks great.
 
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Man, I read this thread and went out and did a 360 degree pan. hah my original is over 50k pixels wide. Unbelievable. Took photomerge like 5 minutes create this :)
 
beautiful!

we should start messing with the web scripts to make them an animated and curled over deal where you can drag it and zoom all around! :)

hey Ethan, what camera was that?

Matt Grunau said:
Second pic looks perfect. No obvious seems, very well blended, very evenly lit.

I don't think you went over the top with the color, I think it looks great.
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thanks Matt! I totally missed it
 
I wish they had that feature years ago. This is the last Pano I did and the only one I have online. It was shot/made manually in PS 6 years ago.
I wish I knew where the original files were so I could try Photomerge. You can easily see where the lines are due to the crazy skies/change in exposure that day.
It literally looked like a typical L.A. summer day in one direction and that it was going to thunder and rain in the other.


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Ethan Schaefer said:
Just a little canon powershot a560. He's a little guy but he can hold his own.
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Do I know it... I am shooting on a little A630, it is all about getting the 4x or higher optical lenses... well that's what I am starting to think... my first posted panorama was just about 3 - 4 pictures, definitely no more than 5. They are sharp.

I also hacked mine so I get RAW files and bring them into PS3 like that before I do the alignment of the channels... (I didn't shoot the panoramas RAW... it is sort of a pain since they are not a file that CS3 reads so I have to make PNPs or something like that with a little free application I downloaded... I will likely be shooting some Headshots soon like that though

GageFX said:
I wish they had that feature years ago. This is the last Pano I did and the only one I have online. It was shot/made manually in PS 6 years ago.
I wish I knew where the original files were so I could try Photomerge. You can easily see where the lines are due to the crazy skies/change in exposure that day.
It literally looked like a typical L.A. summer day in one direction and that it was going to thunder and rain in the other.
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But dude, that's the magic man! If you wanted to CC for continuity I could understand, but I simply LOVE how it is surreal... !! And very subconscious too so I'd say it is perfect
 
The only problem I see in some of these is that there was a definate shift in lighting, causing some portions to lose a little contrast.

This is partcularly noticable in Ethan's, when the camera is at about 180 degrees.
 
Oh! Across the red flowers by the blue pot on the side of the road. And then parallel to that thin tree trunk just off to the left, much more noticeable than the first. I guess some of that is focus being off a bit on the shot down the street.
I healed the crap out of my first one, and also Cloned it all over to shift windows extend roofs and cables, and to eliminate a car on the opposite side of the street. All edges had to be cheated. At least the shadows are easier. You can still see portions where I didn't finish the job.

Nonetheless I love that panorama! I felt like I was driving down the street.
 
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