Panoramic in Photoshop | Maine Wedding Photographers

There is often a need to turn multiple photos into one photo, and I do that using Photoshop. I use CS4, so I'm not sure exactly where the options are for newer or older versions. But here's what I do.

I snap photos in all directions. Usually, I take up to 12 at a time (4 across the top, middle and bottom). For this wedding, I just wanted a pano of the reception tent. So I set my exposure in manual, locked focus on manual (so it didn't change) snapped three photos in a row.

 I open Photoshop, go to File-Automate-Photomerge.

This box opens, I use "Auto" for the layout and then use Browse to find my files. Click OK and it does a ton of work. It takes a minute or so (2-3 for 12 photos). Then it opens one file, with layers for each image. Each layer has a mask that seamlessly blends that photo into the others.

You can adjust the masks, or flatten and make your regular edits. I had a lot of sky and grass to fill, then I upped my saturation and fixed my white balance. 

And Voila!

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