Photoshop CS4 Photomerge

Kudos

very helpful!!

Cynthia & Ashley,

Thanks for your comments! Best of luck with your panoramas.

According to Adobe, this feature will do a 360 pano.

I did no see you demo this.

I use a software. I use an app called PanoVr to render into a Virtual Tour (flash).

And I use PTGui to render photos for PanoVr.

It seems like perhaps this new feature in not that it all that it is cracked up to be

ken

Ken,

Yes, Photomerge will do 360-degree panoramas. In such a short video, it is impossible to cover all of the possible uses of a given feature or tool. That said, there will always be a use for specialized software plugins or standalone app. When PSCS4 is released, I’d suggest comparing it with PanoVr to see which software best suits your needs.
Jay

Jay,

Thanks for the demo finally photo merge explained; I was always told just stick to auto.

Steve

Very well done.

Thanks for your recent comments. Steve, I’m glad I could help clarify Photomerge. While Auto works well in many situations, it’s worth your time experimenting with the other blending options.
Jay

I love this feature in PS3, great tutorial and tips. I tried it with a landscape using 8 images. Each image over lapping by at least a 1/3 in sequence. PS seemed to only want to do any four images at a time? I thought maybe the two central pics could not be merged, so I used Bridge & PS to merge just the two frames that it had trouble with and it was fine, it merged them perfectly, so why would it not want to join all 8 in a series? Have you come across this?

Benjamin,

No, I haven’t come across the problem you describe. Are you using PS Standard or Extended? If you’re using the extended edition, you might try loading all 8 files into an image stack (File>Scripts>Load Files Into Stack) and see if this circumvents the problem.

Hello there

I just installed CS4 premium but my version hasn’t a Photomerge command under File- Automate

Where is it?

Pierlucio in Montreal

Pierlucio,
I had a client who had this problem when they upgraded to CS3. It seems that the Photomerge plugin wasn’t installed. You might try looking on the Adobe Knowledge Base to see if you can install the Photomerge plugin separately. Otherwise, you may need to reinstall Photoshop.
If I come across any specific information, I’ll post it here.

Jay