Things You'll Need:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Digital camera with method of importing photos to computer
- Tripod
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Step 1
First of all, when you're taking the photos, remember you want some overlap so you can match them up later. A tripod will help you with this, with you rotating yourself a few degrees with each shot. Depending on the weather, you may have to be quick about this to avoid changes in the sky.
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Step 2
Open up Photoshop and create a new project--you'll want to go fairly large with the project size, enough to give you enough room to manipulate the individual photos comfortably. This is going to vary by the resolution and dimensions of your shots. Open up each of your photos needed for the panoramic shot so you can line them up.
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Step 3
Something that you're going to notice regardless to how careful you are is that after you finishing lining everything up (basically like a puzzle), that you may have to resize some photos and then crop at the very end. It's hard to do with hard edges, but soft points like sky and water can be carefully blurred and blended together. You can experiment by creating copies of the almost-finished photo and trying different effects on them. Most likely at the very end, you'll need to merge all the layers together and then crop to lose any uneven edges.
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Step 4
With digital scrapbooking, you can do many variations of this effect--purposely not lining things up perfectly, doing drop shadows between layers, etc. Once you know the basic effect, creativity can take over and you can change it to your needs.
