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michael_4143
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February 15, 2026
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Panorama is not being created when the match is obvious

  • February 15, 2026
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I have noticed that LrC fails to create panoramas when, at least to me, it is obvious where the matches are.  I have attached a screen shot of the the photos and the proposed Merge, in 150628 and 105728 respectively below.

I have a similar result taken at a beach where again it seems obvious to me, but the merge doesn’t include all images, see 110215 and 110427.

 

    Correct answer JohanElzenga

    This is a well known issue with panoramas like this. The problem with these kind of images is that while the panorama seems obvious to you, the Lightroom algorithm needs control points to align the images. It needs some small and well defined points, not just in one place but all over the overlapping parts of the images. Especially your second panorama lacks that. To Lightroom this is just a dark mass. Large parts with just water or sky make it even worse. The waves and the clouds are different in each shot. For clouds this difference may be very subtle and hard for you to notice, but for Lightroom it’s just enough to see that these parts don’t really match.

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    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    February 15, 2026

    This is a well known issue with panoramas like this. The problem with these kind of images is that while the panorama seems obvious to you, the Lightroom algorithm needs control points to align the images. It needs some small and well defined points, not just in one place but all over the overlapping parts of the images. Especially your second panorama lacks that. To Lightroom this is just a dark mass. Large parts with just water or sky make it even worse. The waves and the clouds are different in each shot. For clouds this difference may be very subtle and hard for you to notice, but for Lightroom it’s just enough to see that these parts don’t really match.

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