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nocturnalpic
nocturnalpic
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May 31, 2018
Question

Panorama will only merge 2 of my 4 images

  • May 31, 2018
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Hi there,

I recently bought the photography package and have been trying to stitch together an astro panorama that I took. My workflow so far has been - apply profile correction (Irix 15mm f2.4) - correct WB - adjust highlights/sharpening/whites, darks etc. then synced the change to all of my images. I select all of the images and hit merge-panorama and it does its thing, then shows me a preview of just two of the four images starting from the left.

I'm pretty sure I left a decent overlap when I took the photos and they all show a similar foreground so I'm frustrated that the programme can't seem to merge them.

I somehow managed to do it a week ago when I was mucking around and didnt save it and I cant seem to get it to do it now!!!!

Many thanks

Lewis

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nocturnalpic
nocturnalpicAuthor
Participant
June 1, 2018

Many thanks for the replies, I tried another pano from the same night and it worked fine. The problem one I think just has too many differences in colour as it was shot with the dawn on the left and city lights on the right.

Never mind I'll keep learning!

Randy Hufford
Community Expert
Randy HuffordCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 1, 2018

I have found that never do any adjustment ANY, just do the stitch than do adjustments afterwords. And yes when I am doing night star pictures sometimes it cannot find where to align images. Sometimes the problem is solved when I export in photoshop and merge or stitch their. Here is example of one of my milky way images. https://www.randyhuffordart.com/store/art_print_products/milky-way-big-island I over lapped by 50%

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    Joe Foe Toe
    Legend
    May 31, 2018

    If you had it working prior, I suspect that some of your adjustment changes upset things. Perhaps try it first with only lens profile adjustment.

      JohanElzenga
      Community Expert
      JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 31, 2018

      Lightroom is a bit picky with panorama images. Maybe the fact that the stars have moved between your shots -because of the rotation of the earth- throws it off. Try merging in Photoshop.

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
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