P: Aurora Panorama Merges produce unexpected results
Dear all,
Somewhere over the last few months, Lightroom's panorama merge has taken a steep nosedive. I used to merge panoramas from very challenging shots seamlessly. Aurora shots at high ISO's and dark conditions. Now however, even well lit and simple compositions come out absolutely unusable. Often, Lighroom will merge things even completely twisted and mirrored.
Lightroom CC 8.4, MacOS 15.5 (2023 MacBook Pro M3 Max)
Lightroom version: 8.4 arm64 [ 20250603-0500-10f89fb ] (Jun 2 2025)
NGL Version: 1.41.0.11
WF Version: 7.4 a9dfbad
VF Version: 1.0.154
HIL Version: 40501
CAI Version: c2pa-c/0.6.0 c2pa-rs/0.46.0
PH Version: 5.2.3
Operating system: macOS
OS Version: macOS 15.5 (24F74)
The images are all shot on Sony A7IV in ARW and then imported into Lightroom off the camera. I select them in the Detail's view and select "Photo Merge > Panorama Merge" and untick the Auto settings.
Am happy to share RAWs with Adobe staff if needed.
Two or three landscape images, but regardless of mode, there is a more or less visible gap on the horizon.
Now the following images are more challenging as they were taken as portraits. But it used to manage images like these without complaining. The suggested outcome now is... creative?
Choosing a smaller set of images produces the same:
It just seems to struggle with the concept of portraits becoming a panorama altogether.
In fairness, I don't use portraits for panoramas usually but have been playing more and more. But the fact that it can no longer stitch together simple landscape composition makes me think there is a major issue in the feature.
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