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stever71725084
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June 24, 2017
Question

Photomerge results a single photo while not merging the other 9.

  • June 24, 2017
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I have used photomerge a lot but it is not working now.

I add 10 photos with tons of overlap AND I have tried merging previous sets of photos that already worked, so the problem does not lay in the input photos.

Everything works as it should except the result is the first photo of the set while not merging the other 9. in other words, it does not merge ANY of the photos, nor are they any errors.

I have checked all the input options and nothing matters. the program is broken.

thanks

Steve

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 25, 2017

    As JJ said. I'm surprised these would stitch at all. There may be a ton of overlap, but there is also a ton of parallax error.

    You really need to shoot this carefully. Use a tripod, and rotate the camera around the optical center of the lens. There are simple rails to use for this, which will allow you to shift the camera relative to the rotation point.

      stever71725084
      stever71725084Author
      Inspiring
      June 25, 2017

      agreed, but criticising the photographer misses the point that photomerge wont merge them at all. I have hundreds of photos to merge, these may be a bad example. Perhaps the photographer is broken, but that is not the problem, another was able to stitch them, even if the output was bad. the program is not working at all for me. and there is no reason for this.

        JJMack
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        JJMackCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        June 25, 2017

        The stitching problem seem to be confined to your machine it may be an installation issue.

        Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems

        JJMack
          JJMack
          Community Expert
          JJMackCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          June 25, 2017

          You can try contacting Adobe customer support.  This is a user forum site most user here do not work for Adobe. Adobe support may advise you to check in here but we are not Adobe support we just help each other out.  Adobe does fund this site so we can help each other. That is why the Adobe Logo is on this site. Most users Pay for the subscription.  I only pay $10 a month for my wife's subscription.  Adobe gifts some user here a CC subscription to encourage and reward us for participation here as much as we do.  Like my wife I only use Photoshop you will only see me here and in the Photoshop scripting forum.

          With a CC subscription you can install and use previous version of Photoshop.  I mostly use CC 2014,  CC 2017 has too many issues for me.   However I do not seem to have a  problem in CC 2017 Photomerge.

          JJMack
            JJMack
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            JJMackCommunity Expert
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            June 24, 2017

            Where is the set of photos?

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            JJMack
              stever71725084
              stever71725084Author
              Inspiring
              June 24, 2017

              information:

              photoshop cc 2017. latest update

              windows 7 professional

              there are no errors of any kind in the entire process

              i have 250 gigs of free disk space, it is a new dell 7710 with 64 gig of ram. 4 k monitor with high end graphics card

              photoshop is currently allocated 41 gigs of ram

              startup scratch disk is 250 gigs in size

              I have reset preferences and rebooted to no solution

              here i select four jpg files and click ok just like i have dont hundreds of times before

              there is a lot of overlap and i create panos often and know how to do it

              the result seen below shows only two layers: a layer of the last photo and a layer called "photomerge" with no information, just a blank canvas.

              the image (layer 1) is the last image in the list.

              if i load 10 images, layer 1 is image 10

              if i load 15 images, layer 1 is image 15

              it is always the last image but no merging occurs.

              as you can see only one of the four photos was loaded with a blank "photomerge" layer

              In the past it would show all four photos loaded as layers and it would display the final merged image

              It is not working at all . no merging is taking place. this is something new and unexpected because it has worked well for me over 30 times  with my current system until very recently.

              thanks

              steve

              stever71725084
              stever71725084Author
              Inspiring
              June 24, 2017

              here are the four photos

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