Manually stitch images in Photoshop

[ryohm39341758]

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

[c.pfaffenbichler]

What do you mean by »stitch images«? 

Can you give an example? 

[bellevue scott]

wHaT dO YoU MeAn bY...
really?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

»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. 

[c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted solution]

wHaT dO YoU MeAn bY...
really?

By @bellevue scott

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

[JJMack]

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?

[D Fosse]

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.