PS# Photomerge

(richd) · (richd) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 12-27-2006, 8:01 AM

This not only works now it's almost miraculous. The following pano was made with 6 portrait images shot handheld on a 20D. Look at the difference between CS2 (top) and CS3 (bottom)
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(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 12-27-2006, 8:20 AM

whoa! i'm gonna have to get cs3!

(scott_a) · (scott_a) **Join Date: Dec 2002** 12-27-2006, 1:20 PM

nice...evidently they've added some pretty damn useful stuff. Can't wait till the full blown version.

(swami) · (swami) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 12-28-2006, 7:31 AM

wow! I'm impressed.

Don't forget when you are shooting a series for a panorama, go full manual. Shutter, Fstop, White Balance... also for sequence shots too. I find that doing this makes the merging for a panorama a lot easier.

Here is a REAL OLD panorama shot I did back in 2000. It's on an Olympus 2MP camera LOL so don't be too hard on me! :-P

http://www.swamistudios.com/swami/images/alps.htm

(richd) · (richd) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 12-28-2006, 7:43 AM

The beauty of this new version is you don't need to go full manual (even though you still should) as it's intelligently masking and blending the layers. I did tweak the levels on the CS3 shot which wouldn't have been possible on the CS2 without accentuating the the differences that are so obvious. It also has some cool ways of dealing with perspective changes in the individual shots as it aligns them.

If you own CS2 there's no reason to not give this new version a try it seems very stable to me.