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Oleg Lozovoy
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November 2, 2022
Question

Misalignment after applying Auto-Align Layers funtion

  • November 2, 2022
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Hello Adobe community! The situation is that I have 5 brackets exposure sent from Lightroom to Photoshop. Before working with luminosity masks I need to perfectly align them together to make sure there will be no halos or ghost effects in the final image. So I'm quite limited in working with individual masks as I need to get this smooth transition from brighter exposure to darker and vice versa. But after I apply Auto-Align Layers function I see a misalignment lines across all the image. Please check the attached 300% crop image. This misalignment lines as I call them appears in different parts of different layers (not only one layer). Even though my camera was set on tripod during the whole shoot there is a minimal shift between these 5 images. At the same time lots of YouTube videos tell us that Auto-Align Layers function can be applyed even to a handheld images. I'm a bit confused with this situation. Is there any helpful advice on this point?

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Kevin Stohlmeyer
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Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
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November 3, 2022

Auto Align has no guarantee of perfection. Many times its great but sometimes it requires help.

There can be misalignments depending on various issues with the images.

Why are you limited with working with individual masks?

I'd run auto align (what settings are you using? A screenshot would be helpful) and then adjust using the applied masks to resolve any shifts that still exist.

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    Oleg LozovoyAuthor
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    November 3, 2022

    I'm afraid I wasn't completely accurate in discription of my problem caused by Auto-Align Layers function. As you can see on the screenshot attached to my original message the photo was somehow damaged by the algorythm and this strange pixel shift line (or boarder) appeared on every layer in different places of the frame. So there is no chance to fix (or adjust) it after Auto-Align function was applyed. Settings for Auto-Align are just Auto with all check-boxes in Lens Correction section unchecked (I've tryed to do vise versa but it gets even worse). Speaking about limitations of using individual masks as I've said before I need to get smooth transition between lighter and darker exposures using luminosity masks. I can't just paint them with regular white/black brush. That's why I need all layers to be perfectly aligned to get rid of halos and ghost effects after applying luminosity masking to each layer. Again my camera was set on a tripod. So it shouldn't be that difficult for Photoshop to make this quite simple alignment. I don't know maybe there is a problem with my specific copy of Photoshop.

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 3, 2022

    What version are you running?

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