25. MAKE SURE YOUR IMAGES OVERLAP
THE FIRST TIME I used Adobe Photoshop to create a panoramic image, I was stunned by how well the software was able to line up the images and seamlessly blend them together into a single photo. While the software does an amazing job, you can make it easier by giving the program enough information to match up the images.
The goal is to capture enough information for the software to be able to match the objects in the frame, but not so much that it becomes redundant. According to Adobe, your images should overlap by somewhere between 40% and 70%. However, I’ve found that a 30%–40% overlap works really well. Figures ...
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