Photomerge with Adobe Photoshop & Photoshop elements

[gsbhasin]

Hi all,

<p> I am a basic user of Photoshop 6.0. I have tried using

Panotools etc., for Photomerging and didnt find the results to be too

good. The canon Photostitch that comes with Canon G2 gave somewhat ok

results.

<p>Has anyone used Photomerge feature with Photoshop Elements? <br> Is

it the same as in Photoshop 7.0?

<p>How good is it? can you post examples of pre and post stitched

(merged) images?

<p>Costco has good deals sometimes for Photoshop elements and i might

just pick it up for $50 (or so) instead of upgrading to PS 7.

[tom_swanson]

It is okay. It does better with carefully taken photos than hand held ones. You still have to fix seams in skies but it isn't bad.

 

<p>It appears to be the same between elements and ps 7. I've seen no real differences. I JUST recieved elements 3.0 so I'll be giving that a try tonite (Tho I probably will not be doing a merge.)

 

<p>Some panos done with photoshop merge. Most have had the clone brush (at 30% or so) taken to the seams. And the bottom image was 5 vertical photos stitched together.

 

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[mike_cowan1]

Have been having fun using Photomerge in Photoshop Elements (came with the Fuji S2 camera) to stitch up to 11(!)6MP photos together. You have to reduce the files to 50% or the requirements for computer memory become extreme. As stated, blue skies sometimes need to be smudged a bit at the joins, but otherwise the program works brilliantly, snapping adjacent photos together perfectly. So far, it seems to work best for me with distant scenes and moderate telephotos, to eliminate perspective problems.<div></div>

[tom_swanson]

I think 50mm is as wide as you want to go. Otherwise the program works fine.

 

I just tried it out in Elements 3. It is the same as elements 2 and cs.

[chrisjb]

forgive my asking but I could not find `photomerge` in my copy of PS7

so a while ago I copied the photomerge from a trial version of element 2 and placed it in the automate files. question, was photomerge actualy in PS7?.btw it works fine for a single line of photos but which is the best way for a larger file such as 3 pics high and 5 wide?

[steve_armstrong1]

Do you get memory problems when tring to stitch tiff images together? Or should they be converted to jpegs beforehand to reduce size?

[steve_armstrong1]

Sorry - did not see Mike's comments...thought that would be the case.

[tom_swanson]

I have a gig of memory and haven't had any issues. I don't know if I just haven't created a merge big enough.

[sean de merchant httpw]

Just an aside. Have photomerge create layers in its output and then use the difference blending mode and the lasso tool to do the stitching. You simply ensure that you select along a path that is nearly black with a slight feather (1-3 pixels) on detailed areas and a wide feather in smooth areas like sky. You can either delete what you selelct or use a layer mask. Using a layer mask takes more ram. This will create much cleaner merges than that awful garbage that photomerge creates if you have it do the stitching for you and you no longer need to invent details with the cloning brush.

[x]

Just as an aside, the Photomerge in Elements 2.0 and CS are NOT the same. The key difference is that CS will allow you to create an output .psd file with the different images in different layers while Elements 2.0 will not. Having different layers makes it much easier to create seamless joins between images.

[tom_swanson]

Ah! I hadn't thought about that.

 

Thanks!