Accessing the Photomerge Dialog in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jimmy with Expert Village. And in this clip we're going to be showing you how to combine a series of images to make one complete panoramic shot. Ok, the first thing you are going to need for this tutorial is a series of images that you've taken from one spot standing still, and just rotating yourself while taking another picture. Now I'm going to go an open my images here. Click file open. And I've got a series of images I've prepared for this tutorial. So I'll select them all. And I'm using CS3, Photoshop CS3 by the way. And click open. And here are my series of images. Let them load up. Ok, now that everything is loaded up, the command to get to the panoramic mode, is under the file menu. File, automate, and then right here at the bottom is photo merge. So we'll go over and click that. And it brings up this dialog here. On the left you see your layout. Automatic, and it will, Photoshop will analyze your files. And it will go ahead and align the pictures automatically based on edge detail and matching up images. The perspective, it will, as you can see by this image here, it will put your pictures together, but at a perspective warp to it. Almost like a fish eye lens or a wide eye lens. Ok, the cylindrical is used for anytime; say if you have the kind of image that would look nice with a faded perspective. Almost like a trailing perspective that you see here in this image. Reposition only, which we'll use for this tutorial. Or just take the images and align them based on their image detail, and try to do the best it can. And interactive layout, we'll show you that one later, it will let you, it will align it based on edge detail. But then it will let you go in and kind of edit where you want the pictures if its not quite perfect. The next thing we have here are source files. These are the files that we'll be using to create our panoramic. You can choose from files, or if you have your files in a folder, you can go ahead and select your folder here. And then you hit your browse button. And it will let you browse to the folder, and go ahead and select the folder and you click ok, and it will add your files that are in that folder. I'm going to select files, which will allow you to click browse and then select your files. Or, you can click, since I've opened them in Photoshop all ready, you can click open files. Which is what I'm going to do here. And it will add every file that's open right now, and those are the files that I want. And I leave this blend images together checked, because that way after it combines your images, Photoshop will analyze the exposure and color and differences. And it will try to blend them best it can to make a seamless image. Without this on, you get some really bad edge detail, and you can see where the images were put together. This is where Photoshop CS2 has a big problem."