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TUTORIAL – MAKING A PANORAMIC WITH PHOTOSHOP CS3

Welcome to our latest tutorial. This is farely simple and fun as well! While not a necessity, a tripod is a great friend when creating your panos.


The first step in this process is obviously pick your location and setup your tripod and camera. The below photos are what I will be using for this tutorial. I took my meter reading off of the sky, it said f11 at 1/125. I used my elevation lock to ensure that my exposure would not change while taking the photos. I used 5 source images:




While typically a landscape picture works better, I opted for portrait for the mere fact that I had limited space. These pictures were taken in my backyard of one half of my side yard.

You want to ensure that you overlap each of your pictures, you should shoot for at least 25% of each side.

Once you have the photos you are going to use, it’s time to open up Photoshop.


Click File>Automate>Photomerge…



This will bring up a dialog box asking you to load your files. Select your files, ensure that “Blend Images Together” is checked and then hit “Ok”.




Once you do that, Photoshop will process the images and do its best to align and blend the images into your panoramic view. Once it’s done processing, you should have something like this:




Now what you will want to do is crop the image to get rid of all of the transparent areas. You should have something that looks like the following:




You’re probably saying to yourself, I thought he said to make sure I got rid of all of the transparent areas. I did, but I wanted to show you a cool trick in case you have a photo you can’t get rid of it all. If you notice, the image is in layers, but for the simplicity of this tutorial, you need to hit CTRL+E to merge your layers, then, what you can do is simply “clone” in the missing areas with your “Clone Stamp Tool”. After cloning it in, it should look like the following:



Once that’s done, then all you need to do is maybe a levels and curves adjustment and you’re done…




Hopefully this helps you guys out, if you have any questions, as always let me know and I’ll help you best I can…