- Once you've merged your panoramic photo in Photoshop
there's a few steps to do after the fact.
Now to speed this up I've actually created an action
that's gonna make this a lot easier.
Essentially we need to get the left and right edge
of our panoramic photo
and get them to line up properly,
so that we get a seamless loop.
I've written this action to do that step
and save you a lot of manual labor.
Inside your exercise files with the class
there is an action called Panoramics.
You can also do a web search for this action
and I've posted it on a few websites,
and this will solve a lot of problems for you.
Once you double-click it it should appear
in your Actions folder.
And what you're looking for is the Panoramics set.
Now this does several steps.
It's gonna select all the layers, merge them together,
and then it's gonna start to cut these layers apart
and move them.
Now essentially this sheet of paper
represents the panoramic photo
and the left and right edge aren't gonna be a perfect match,
but if we split this in the middle here,
we can easily align the key details,
get that seamless, and then bend it back
and the edges will line up again.
That's exactly what's gonna happen here.
If you look at the photo
you could see that the Washington Monument
appears in both photos.
So we need to get this Washington Monument
to line up with this Washington Monument
and then create a new left and right edge.
Well, that action's gonna do all that.
Select the layers, merge them together,
split it apart, and then realign them
using the Alignment command.
Let's go ahead and play this.
With the action selected I'll just click the play button
and it's gonna start the process.
Did the merge, duplicates,
splits them into a left and right piece,
realigns them, blends them together,
finds the transparent pixels, and gets rid of it.
And now, if needed, we can recrop or reclone.
So the only thing to really crop out
is the top here.
You'll notice we have a little scalloping
on the top and bottom.
Select the image with the Canvas command here
and feel free to just crop slightly from the top and bottom,
or use tools like Clone Stamp tool to fill that in.
You'll notice that the left and right edge should line up.
Now if I run that Offset filter,
Filter, Other, Offset,
I can actually shift that.
And you see that we're almost simulating
looking around the panoramic photo.
And the split there in the middle
on the Lincoln Memorial absolutely worked.
The two sides definitely line back up.
It's stitched back into a whole building.
So, there we have it.
Let's just zoom back out
and I'll undo that Offset command.
And what we have here is a perfectly seamless photo.
Now if you wanna reposition the center of that photo
go ahead and use that Offset filter.
This'll make it very easy for you to move things around.
So if you wanna put the Lincoln Memorial
back towards the center, feel free to do so.
When you click OK the pixels are pushed
from one side of the image and wrapped around to the other.
At this point it's just a matter of clean up.
I see that we've got the moon in the sky,
just a small sliver,
that actually looks like it might be more of a satellite.
I can get rid of that really quick.
Or take a look for any other problems.
As we pan around what's great is that all of the things
lined up properly.
I can easily see that all of these bricks
and diagonal lines piece together.
We've got nice, crisp, sharp photos of people,
because we put things together pretty fast.
And it looks pretty solid.
Let's take a look at the other side here.
We've got a bike rider
and everything looks pretty good.
Now you can go through with tools like Cloning and Stamping
and remove any people if they got cut off,
but the Photoshop Photo Merge command
is actually a little more robust I find
sometimes than Lightroom.
Some of the problems we saw in Lightroom,
such as a trail of light here, aren't there.
And as we explore the other side
Photoshop didn't repeat this person,
so we're able to actually avoid
seeing somebody in the shot twice.
But if you need to take them out
you can zoom in and do just that.
The photo is now prepped
and we are ready to save this
and take it into a panoramic environment.
Now you can do anything else in Photoshop that you want
to improve this photo,
but from a technical standpoint
all the pieces properly line up
and Photoshop's Photo Merge command
plus the combination of that custom
Photoshop action that I wrote
did the job of quickly stitching all of the pieces together
and making our 360 degree loop.