How to Create A Panorama With Photoshop CS4

Adobe's Photoshop CS4 is a very powerful tool for the casual to serious photographers and graphic artists. The more recent versions are able to automatically scale, morph, align and blend your pictures into a panorama.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Photoshop CS4

1. Take a number of photos for use in the panorama and load them onto your computer.

2. 

   Launch Photoshop CS4 and go to File -> Scripts -> Load Files into Stack...

3. 

   Select the files for your panorama, uncheck all the boxes and click Ok.

4. 

   Select all the layers and go to Edit -> Auto-Align Layers...

5. 

   Set the Projection mode to Auto and uncheck the boxes under Lens Corrections and click Ok.
   
   Once the layers have been aligned you should have a rough panorama with obvious edges.

6. 

   Select all the layers again and go to Edit -> Auto-Blend Layers...

7. 

   Set the Blend Method to Panorama and check Seamless Tones and Colors.
   
   The panorama should now flow smoothly from end to end.

8. 

   Select the crop tool and crop the majority of the white space from the panorama.

9. 

   Now crop the remaining white space or use a variety of tools to fill the blank spots. Once they're gone, the panorama is complete.

Tips & Warnings

• Lens Corrections might be needed depending on the photos.
• Things to try: 360 Panorama - Take a photo, turn a little, take another, continue for a full turn.