Browsing for Images to Photo Merge in Photoshop CS3

Series Summary

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing today. It is a program that gives users the power to manipulate colors and effects, layer parts of images in stacks, adjust balances and global characteristics with precision, and clean up or completely revision photographs. Photoshop offers unique features and effects, though some argue that it does not replicate natural media as closely as other painting programs. Despite the criticisms, Photoshop is also the standard program for artists outside photography who create images from scratch. The recent rise of digital painting is popular in fantasy and commercial art. Anyone with a computer and determination can learn Photoshop and reproduce the same quality art exhibited in magazines, comics, and web literature... although, as the purists will remind us, it still takes artistic talent.

In this free Photoshop tutorial video series, professional photographer Julio Costilla teaches you some advanced features of Photoshop CS3. Julio will teach you how to merge layers and emulate high dynamic range photography with Photoshop's new features. You will also learn how to blend layers together with filters, soft light layer styles, and opacity settings. Julio covers the zoomify feature as well, showing you how to make your large, panorama images viewable on a website with zoom capabilities. Blending, merging, and zooming are all here in this tutorial collection.

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photo shop is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so in this tutorial I am actually going to be talking about how to do a "Photo Merge" or rather a "Panorama" and how to use "Zoomafie" and how to use a few blending moves. What we want to first do here is actually browse for our files, because when we go into our "Automate Photo Merges" you can see it is going to ask us to browse for files. Now it is very important that I am going to tell you about this because, let me show you again where I went, I went to "File, Automate, Photo Merge". This is where the Photo Merge is, but first I am going to show you my files that I have. The reason why I am going to do this is because I want to show you how every picture overlaps the other. It is very important that every image overlaps the next, reason being PhotoShop is not going to understand what is what if an image is not overlapping another one. So say for instance you are out somewhere and you have a beautiful Panorama as this one and this actually a three sixty Panorama, but as you can see every image that is on here overlaps the next, just a little bit. Now this Photo Merge has been in PhotoShop for a while, but not until "CS3" has become so powerful, so in the next clip I am actually going to show you what to do to upload these."