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  • - [Deke] Now,

  • one way to stitch a bunch of photographs together

  • is to go up to the file menu, choose automate,

  • and then choose this guy right here, photomerge.

  • And then notice that initially,

  • we don't actually have any files to work from,

  • and so to load up the base photos,

  • you need to click on the browse button

  • and then click on one

  • and shift click on the last one like so,

  • and then click OK

  • in order to load up a list of all those files,

  • and then I'd click OK inside of this dialog box

  • in order to let her rip.

  • However, I'm going to show you my preferred way of working

  • by canceling out here,

  • and then I'll go up to the file menu

  • and choose Browse in Bridge,

  • which will go ahead and launch

  • the independent Adobe Bridge application,

  • assuming that you've installed it.

  • All right now here,

  • we're seeing all those quarter sized JPEG files.

  • And so notice that each one of them measures

  • 1824 pixels wide

  • by 2736 tall.

  • If you want to work from those original DNG files,

  • then go up to the view menu and turn on show folders.

  • If it's not already on

  • so that you can see this sub folder right here.

  • These are the original DNG's

  • I'll just go ahead and double click on that folder.

  • And you can see that these files are twice as large

  • in each direction.

  • So in other words,

  • they measure 3,648 pixels wide

  • by 5,472 pixels tall.

  • One other thing I want you to see here,

  • I'm going to go ahead and click on one of these thumbnails

  • and then right click and choose Open in Camera Raw.

  • Or you can press Control+R or Command+R on the Mac

  • and notice that I've applied a few modifications over here

  • in the basic panel.

  • More importantly, however,

  • if I switch over to the Lens Corrections panel,

  • I've turned on both of these check boxes.

  • And so, in other words,

  • I've gotten rid of the Geometric Lens Distortion,

  • and I've also gotten rid of any Vignetting.

  • And assuming that you're shooting raw,

  • I recommend that you turn on both of these check boxes

  • for every image that you're going to be working with,

  • before you apply the photo merge command.

  • All right, so I'll just go ahead and cancel out here.

  • I am not going to be working with these big DNG files.

  • And so I'll switch back to the Arches folder right there,

  • and I'll go out to the view menu and choose show folders

  • to turn it off.

  • And that way we can focus on the images themselves.

  • All right, so when you're shooting these photographs,

  • what you want to do is face straight forward

  • at the center of your scene, as we're seeing here.

  • So I just selected that center image

  • and I press the space bar

  • to enter the full screen preview mode.

  • And you want to establish your focus and exposure

  • and lock things down.

  • Now, it's great if you have a tripod,

  • but it's not necessary.

  • I did not have a tripod on me in this case,

  • in which case, just face forward.

  • So plant your feet and then twist your body

  • all the way over to the right-hand side.

  • Or you can start on the left, if you like,

  • and notice that I'm starting too far over to the right.

  • So the more you capture the better.

  • And in this case, I'm actually twisting my body

  • more than 90 degrees.

  • And then you want to shoot a series of vertical shots.

  • Believe it or not, that's going to give you the best results

  • because you're going to have the most height information.

  • And then just go ahead and take a bunch of images,

  • try to keep the horizon flat as you do so,

  • and make sure that you have at least a third overlap

  • from one image to the next, as you can see, in my case,

  • I have more like a half overlap.

  • And so once again, the more, the better.

  • And then finally, I'm going way too far over here

  • to the left.

  • And I believe at this point, if I press the right arrow key,

  • once again, well,

  • I've got a little more imagery right there,

  • and then I'll go ahead and cycle over

  • to the far right-hand side.

  • So again, I'm starting with my body twisting

  • more than 90 degrees to the right,

  • and then I'm ending with my body twisted

  • more than 90 degrees to the left.

  • All right, so assuming you've got all these raw images,

  • I have 17 in all.

  • I'll go ahead and press Control+A or Command+A on a Mac

  • to select all of them.

  • And then I'll go up to the Tools menu,

  • choose Photoshop and choose photomerge.

  • And that's going to automatically switch you to Photoshop

  • as we're seeing here.

  • And that'll bring up that same photo merge dialog box

  • that we saw a moment ago.

  • Which may make you think,

  • "Well, why in the world is this approach so much better?"

  • Well, it goes ahead and automatically populates

  • the file list right here.

  • Then you want to turn on Blend Images Together.

  • In our case, we're going to leave Vignette Removal

  • and Geometric Distortion Correction turned off

  • because after all I already compensated

  • for the lens distortion inside Camera Raw,

  • before I saved off these JPEG files.

  • If however, you're working with JPEG files,

  • then go ahead and turn both of these check boxes on.

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