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ryohm39341758
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February 25, 2020
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Manually stitch images in Photoshop

  • February 25, 2020
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I have been using Photoshop for simple editing of images for my office for over 3 years now. I never experimented nor have I explored the boundaries of Photoshop as many people have. I dont have the time. I need to figure out how to manually stitch images in Photoshop. Can someone give me a crash course in how that can be done. thanks

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    Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

     

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    By @bellevue scott

    @bellevue scott , could you elaborate on what you wanted to achieve with the post you added to a thread from 2020? 

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    February 25, 2020

    General guidelines:

     

    Make sure you have about 40% solid overlap (not water etc). The shots must be taken from the same point, as little parallax error as possible. Ideally the camera should rotate around the lens optical centre, which is where the diaphragm appears to be when seen from the front.

     

    Stack individual frames as layers. Put the central image at the bottom, the others will align to that.

    First Edit > Auto-Align Layers to distribute the layers.

    Then Edit > Auto-Blend Layers to seamlessly merge the layers. Flatten immediately.

      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      February 25, 2020

      Have you tried the use either of Photoshop Stitching features.  There is one in ACR and there is menu File>Automate>Photomerge....   "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2020\Presets\Scripts\Photomerge.jsx" The script's code is readable text a Photoshop JavaScript you may get some ideas reading the code. If you can not use either feature for what you want to do. How are you trying to stitch your images or how do you want to stitch them?

      JJMack
        c.pfaffenbichler
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        c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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        February 25, 2020

        What do you mean by »stitch images«? 

        Can you give an example? 

        bellevue scott
        bellevue scott
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        August 24, 2023

        wHaT dO YoU MeAn bY...
        really?

        c.pfaffenbichler
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        c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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        August 25, 2023

        »stitch images« could be used to describe different scenarios – images shot »properly« for panoramas or HDR, images from one location shot by hand that subsequently do not actually match the same perspective, combining (parts of) images from different locations/showing different subjects, … 

        Therefore requesting clarification seemed perfectly reasonable. 

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