Technique 36: Stitching Photos to Create Panoramas
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UsingPhotomerge
Stitching photos
Have you ever taken several photographs across a wide panorama and wanted to seamlessly put them together? If you ever tried this in previous versions of Photoshop, matching the photos and then blending them together took time and a bit of skill. This process is called photo stitching. It’s kind of like piecing a quilt together.Well, no more tedious stitching! Photoshop cs has a completely amazing plug-in that does most of the work for you. The first time I ever used the Photomerge command, I was astounded, “Geez, this thing is smart!” It put all my photos together into a single image without too much fuss or bother — no need to blend between spliced photos. What a timesaver!This technique shows you how to use this great plug-in. If you’ve been to the Grand Canyon and want to put a whole canyon’s worth of photos together, give this a try. Or, take your digital camera outside and snap a few pictures across the horizon, import the photos into Photoshop, and then use Photomerge to put them all together.