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Step 5Using Adobe Photoshop CS
I use Adobe Photoshop CS to manually stitch my panorama photos together, but this method can also be used in other programs. At the bottom of this article there are brief instructions on how to create panoramas with the free open source image editor GIMP.
Adobe Photoshop offers functionality to stitch panoramas together automatically (File > Automate > Photomerge...). You can use this for the initial layout, but as with all the other automated panorama stitching software I've seen, most panoramas still need manual retouching. In this photo stitch tutorial I'm making the entire panorama manually for the best result.
1 Open all the individual photos that will form your panorama.
2 Select your starting photo. It doesn't really matter whether this is the first photo of the series, the last, or one from the middle.
3 Create a layer from the background
(In the layers palette right click layer and select 'Layer From Background...')
4 Enlarge the canvas size
(Image > Canvas size ...)
You can guestimate the size of your final panorama. It doesn't matter if you get it wrong, as if you run out of canvas you can always increase it later. Make sure to set the right anchor depending on the position of your starting photo in the panorama. Don't forget to increase the vertical size a little too as the horizon may not be at exactly the same level for each photo.
5 Save your intermediate work as a .PSD file to avoid accidentally overwriting your JPG file half way through.
(File > Save as...)
6 Copy and paste the adjacent photo into your PSD file.
Adobe Photoshop offers functionality to stitch panoramas together automatically (File > Automate > Photomerge...). You can use this for the initial layout, but as with all the other automated panorama stitching software I've seen, most panoramas still need manual retouching. In this photo stitch tutorial I'm making the entire panorama manually for the best result.
1 Open all the individual photos that will form your panorama.
2 Select your starting photo. It doesn't really matter whether this is the first photo of the series, the last, or one from the middle.
3 Create a layer from the background
(In the layers palette right click layer and select 'Layer From Background...')
4 Enlarge the canvas size
(Image > Canvas size ...)
You can guestimate the size of your final panorama. It doesn't matter if you get it wrong, as if you run out of canvas you can always increase it later. Make sure to set the right anchor depending on the position of your starting photo in the panorama. Don't forget to increase the vertical size a little too as the horizon may not be at exactly the same level for each photo.
5 Save your intermediate work as a .PSD file to avoid accidentally overwriting your JPG file half way through.
(File > Save as...)
6 Copy and paste the adjacent photo into your PSD file.
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