But I suddenly ran into problems in Photoshop without being able to really identify why. I have used Photoshop for stitching panoramas earlier - with up to nine images and have sold copies of the panoramas. If you try to correct this in Photoshop the height of your pano will very small indeed.) (An aside - it seems your horizon is not level, and normally this is crucial for these types of panos your stand and head must be properly leveled. I am not sure if you can rescue the panorama above in Photoshop manual work is problematic since Photoshop transforms the images to fit a chosen 'layout'.

Stitch the image ( Stitcher tab Stitch! button).

Repeat Step 5 for every pair of images that didn't have any control points.Ĭheck on the stitch by looking at the GL preview window (you can also correct bowed or slanted horizons here by simple dragging under the Move/Drag tab to reset yaw, pitch, and roll.)

Define three to six pairs of control points.

Click on the point in the first image to define where to place the control point, and then click at the same point in the other image to finish defining the point.

The window will have two panes in it, one for the first image in the pair, and one for the second.

In the window, select the pair of images that don't have control points defined.

In Hugin, after loading up the images and aligning them (i.e., letting the software automatically find control points), if the software can't find control points between pairs of images, it notifies you with a message.

In the case of Hugin, you can manually specify control points-that is the specific spots that match between the images, and where you want to pin the member images together to form your pano. The autostitching algorithms in specialized panorama stitching programs can be more sophisticated, but in addition, they allow you to manually correct issues that can lead to stitching errors.

You may have to use a specialized panostitching program, such as Hugin. There may not be any way to save this is Photoshop. In your scene, the ocean and horizon is very similar from shot to shot, and chances are good Photomerge simply can't figure out where to attach the images together. Shots where there may not be enough distinguishing detail in the overlap areas to anchor accurately can be problematic. And most auto stitching programs require enough overlap and significant enough features to be able to match the images together. Photoshop's Photomerge is relatively limited as panorama stitching packages go.

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