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Panorama Alignment in Photoshop CS4 by Sean Duggan

CATEGORIES: Living In Layers | RC | November 10, 2009

by Sean Duggan:

Photomerge in Photoshop CS4 does an amazing job of aligning and blending panoramas, but occasionally you run into an image where there’s a glitch that has to be fixed manually. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at panorama alignment problems and explore various strategies for fixing them. We’ll finish with a look at how to get great-looking moving water in high-dynamic range (HDR) shots.

1 A PANORAMA ALIGNMENT GLITCH
In most cases, the seams created by Photomerge are very successful, but sometimes it may have “issues.” This panorama was made from three horizontal images taken in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And no matter how many times I’ve tried to get Photomerge to blend these images, it always creates an alignment glitch at the top of the locomotive, just above the windshield. In this section of the article, we’ll create the initial panorama—glitch and all—and then explore a few different ways to try and fix the problem.

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Where is the announced tutorial?

Comment by F | November 13, 2009 @ 8:49 am

Am I missing something here? The last sentence says, “In this section of the article, we’ll create the initial panorama—glitch and all—and then explore a few different ways to try and fix the problem.” I’d really like to read the rest of this article. Thanks.

Comment by Laurie | November 13, 2009 @ 12:26 pm