Adobe Photoshop

Lesson C: Panorama

Let’s construct a panoramic image. For this, we need appropriate source images. There are things that should be done when making the photos that will be combined like this.

Assemble Appropriately Captured Images

Each exposure should be the same so they can be blended together. This also implies that any adjustments done to an image after capture have to be done to all of the images in exactly the same way.

The images’ field of view should overlap by about 30% so the software can recognize elements to align them well. In a perfect world (this is not it, by the way), each image would be shot on a perfectly level tripod with the lens rotated around its nodal point between each exposure.

I used to do that. Then one day I ran ...