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Trying to align series of layers. Auto align greyed out. All layers selected

Community Beginner ,
Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

The auto align button is greyed out. I've seen a lot of answers on this but they are not applicable.  I have all the layers selected.  They are all at 100% opacity. 

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New Here , Dec 12, 2022 Dec 12, 2022

Also after Rasterizing the Smart Object make sure you have "Align To: Canvas" selected in Properties. 

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Community Expert ,
Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

Hi,

What version of photoshop and operating system are you using?

Could you post a screenshot of photoshop including the layers panel?

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

Hi, thank you for answering.  I'm trying right now to figure out how to take a screenshot.  I've done it before on other things but can't figure out how to do it for the photoshop page.

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

Oh by the way this is for photoshop CS6, the cloud.   I'm using a MAC OSX, version 10.7.5,

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Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

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Community Expert ,
Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

It looks like the auto align layers button is greyed out because some of your layers are smart objects.

You should rasterize the smart object layers and then auto align should work.

Select the smart object layers in the layers panel, right click on one of the layers and choose Rasterize Layers.

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

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Thank you!  That did allow the align button to show.  I tried to align but it won't let me as you can see from the note.  I used cylindrical.  I am overlapping more than 40%.  So I don't know why it is not letting me align.

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

My mistake.  Forgot to rasterize all the layers.  I just did and it worked.  Thank you so much again.

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 25, 2017 Jun 25, 2017

Wow. Rasterizing the layers solved the problem. Thank you so much.

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Community Expert ,
Feb 16, 2013 Feb 16, 2013

See if this helps on taking screenshots:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/963429?tstart=0

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Community Expert ,
Jun 26, 2017 Jun 26, 2017

You an easy solution that would look better would to be just to retake the photo with the PANARAMA MODE selected on a person's cell phone.

Then the images are also stitched together a little better.  Plus you will have an image that you do not have to play with to align.  Getting rid of all those seams would make a better image.

Some cameras also have PANARAMA MODE as well.

Just another option.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 05, 2019 Jan 05, 2019

I have the same issue, even the choose Rasterize Layers. option is greyed out, whats wrong?

I have most upto-date version of lightroom + photoshop (monthly subscription , auto update)

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Community Expert ,
Jan 05, 2019 Jan 05, 2019

Hi

It looks like you have opened the image layers from Lightroom.

There is an issue in the current version.

Close both apps. Open Photoshop and leave it open. Now open Lightroom. You should now be able to take your images from Lightroom to Photoshop and the menus should work.

Dave

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 05, 2019 Jan 05, 2019

you are exactly right Dave, and yes your steps fixed my problem.

And I think you are a genius davescm

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Community Expert ,
Jan 05, 2019 Jan 05, 2019

Haha - my family would put you right on that one . I'm glad you got it sorted.

Dave

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New Here ,
Dec 12, 2022 Dec 12, 2022

Also after Rasterizing the Smart Object make sure you have "Align To: Canvas" selected in Properties. 

Screen Shot 2022-12-12 at 10.09.08 AM.png

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Participant ,
Jan 16, 2024 Jan 16, 2024

That was the solution! I knew there was a way to align it without ruining my layout by rasterizing the layer. I just needed to select Canvas instead of Selection. Thank you so much.

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New Here ,
May 16, 2024 May 16, 2024

By rasterizing and selecting on the canvas in order to be able to align.

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May 16, 2024 May 16, 2024
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