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Summary: Photo merging in Photoshop CS3 mimics the longer process of high dynamic range photography. Learn to use the photo merge tool in Photoshop CS3 in this free Photoshop tutorial video.
Julio Costilla has been shooting photos since the age of 14. His dream was to become a professional photographer before the age of 25, which he made with years to spare. He owns and...read more
"Adobe Photo Shop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so in this tutorial I am going to show you exactly what "Photo Merge" does. When you go to File, Automate and Photo Merge, down over here next to "Merge HDR", you click and this dialog box comes up like I showed you in the last tutorial. So now we have different type of layouts, we got "Auto, Perspective, Cylindrical, Reposition Only and Interactive layout". I like to use Auto, you could try to use the other ones, you want to make sure that this dialog box right here is clicked "Blend Images Together" and you want to click "Add open files". So this is opening every one of our images and like I said earlier- it is important that every image has a least a little bit of the other one. Now this image was shot on a tripod and there is going to be little cropping to do, but you can actually hand to hold this and as you can see Photo Shop is going insane at the moment and what it is doing it is actually blending all these images together, it is doing everything for you. In the previous Photo Shops it would do the same thing but it would leave you lines and kind of weird things where you would have to actually clone out. But since Photo Shop has given us this powerful tool in "CS3" they have made it so much more easy for us to do these photo merging techniques or Panorama techniques so that we can actually get ourselves a decent image to properly print out and showcase. So as you can see Photo Shop has given us a three-sixty Panorama, completed beautifully in Photo Shop. Now, what you want to do is, you are going to want to "Crop" and I am going to show you this on the next tutorial, but before I do that I want to show you what a clean selection Photo Shop does. If I take off that layered mass, you can actually zoom in and see what kind of blending Photo Shop has done for us to get this really, really good looking three-sixty Panorama. So what I want to do now is actually "crop" and I am going to show you that on the next tutorial."
eHow Article: Photo Merge Photoshop Tutorial