stitchy stitchy time. Now a couple of weeks ago I put up a film
showing you the techniques needed to shoot a panoramic
image using a long focal length lens and explained the reasons why
the techniques in the steps you need to take to do the camera end and if you get the
camera end right
then this end, the editing, the creating of the pan stitch in photoshop becomes
really really simple so if you haven't seen that film theres a link to it on screen
right now give it a click, go and have a look the pop back here.
So let's have a look at our images, first thing I need to do is get my screen recorder running
so that I can show you what I'm looking at
and go into Photoshop
and lets just pull up the first image, and as you can see it's a slice of bread
it's a long narrow kind of
a shot we bring out the next one see how
they kinda marry up, this little gap here
between the rocks is this little gap here and so they can be overlaid
pretty much like, I don't want that to join at the top.
pretty much something like there we go you see how they sort of match up
bringing the next image
this is why it's so important to be careful
shooting these images to make sure that they can be overlaid
and sort of join together, let's just see where that goes its something like that
again that's pretty good there and so on
as they sort of come in you can see, even in photoshop im just kinda lining them
them up very roughly
and that's not very good, let's see if I can get it in the right place
that's about right there now notice there's some little steps going on there and that's
because I didn't have the camera quite level as I said in the last film
you can see how these sort of line up together
and we're gonna stick some together using a command in the automate
commands
in a moment the care taken with
doing a manual exposure has really paid off because as you can see if you look at
these images
exposures are completely consistent, I shot raw files just in case they needed a
little tweak and that could be done
im not going into that stage here, this is about doing the stitch, it's not about
lightroom and converting
raws, but I shot raw files in case they needed changing but they didn't so all
I did was chuck them into lightroom
and exported them as they are and that's what you're looking at on screen here
we're not gonna do post production work on these before they're stitched
let's just get them joined together so lets just pull in
the other images onto screen and i'll just roughly sort of show you what they are, here
we go, one more there and
you see how I got my little sort of band of rocks on the right hand side and
on the left hand side
in the neck so that they will sort of join up something like that
and here's our final image. All you have to do
to join these together is you go into photoshops file
automate commands and then pop down here to
Photo Merge really really simple, that's going to open up this window
and on the left hand side you've got various the
opportunities to do different things their perspective controls and
then of course Perico I'm not going to each of those here
because you can experiment with those for yourself that they were kinda
flattened perspective they will kind of give it a wide angle lens look they'll do all
sorts of stuff like that for you im just gonna leave it onto auto,
now we can
either we can really browse and go look for our files we can just
pop in here and import them
clicked
and open false ego you see and they will just pop straight into their
we gonna do no needles and threads hey guys you just click
okay and away we go you can see Photoshop is now doing its thing is now
looking at the images
is analyzing all the different little bits and pieces the jaggery exit edges
the rocks et cetera and seeing what matches
and seeing what doesn't is in creating each of the segments
onto a separate layer so that they could be repositioned bringing
if you wish to the I find Photoshop tends to do it really really well
if you've been following any my bids for a long night something new Photoshop hah
print his a pretty rare thing isn't it but I have an
you know and and the new software undoubtedly does things better for your
health I saw it does matter is still the same come out its
still in the same place there we go he say have we done it now
Photoshop has created this panoramic image here
you can see the ages all the different shots going across the frame
we've got a couple to gap same well I didn't have the camera quite straight as
I said
and I'm here in our Layers palette you can see all the different
liars the sequence which one of you can see see how it's
found edges of things and and kinda join things together
and it's interesting the sinews in all tiny slice at that particular image
there
but it's not all some job so all that's left for you to do
is to crop it under the crop tool we've done all that stuff for the top the
empty space I on this gonna
let down and remove it as another little gap to the left it's not polite in there
the real the empty space at the bottom had my camera being completely level
that would not %uh happen certainly not an extent
then we can get the United bring in a bit more cuz I quite like
this rocks and here in the bottom corner sorta popping up there
yeah I think that crops goodson's click enter
there we go week rocked our image that's what it looks like
the next that would be too do any post production work
that you want now that I am
we've got our image just get rid of these original so that we can get
ourselves into a mess with
whose
weekend Amanda crook 2010 regains put down there for a minute
get rid of these gonna
I'm still learning my way around for the shop CC
because it is slightly different as a few things in slightly different places
you know is much the same thing from post-production work you wanna do in
Photoshop to conduct
change colors now's the time to do that we join the ends together the nice in
seeing this they look good takin care without exposing
manually has really paid off and everything lines up
beautifully beginner do any work in post-production me the same this is a
copy
and so you can come back and work on if you wish I'm just gonna
merge the liars so that it becomes on 21 liar
and then I can just type look at it so let's just pop into all levels palette
see what that looks like his grams is equivalent but dark and I agree
could be a little bit more punchy pull that down a bit
brighter maybe now on looting detail in here
around the white Simon take that off look to see the difference
hope in the video is picking up there we go so that's
before and that's after that's nice
I'd like to pop a bit more color into it and control your command you
on a Mac just bring up the saturation pilot just push the Calida
a little bit scattered about ask a bit mad so you can see the difference is
taken out here to about
2019 for do the preview hope we can see the colors change that's
without and that's way that's quite nice
and so on if you wanna darken the sky do a little bit fiddly diddly
that's absolutely cool there's our image
if I just can't see if I can find the
ten millimeter image to show you start the lost
a.m. wrong one foolish
just surrounding this the wrong way
as a set I'm still learning my way around new Photoshop it does a few
things
slightly differently just gonna open
are on 10-meter image popular in
so we can compare the two zoom out
hit sank on the sidelines
now if I zemin
onto those little rock sticking out
on all ten millimeter an inch see how they start
very rapidly for partner completely pixelated there's very little data going
on in there
at all for do the same thing
on are long lens pan stage
stressed and I bet
then we go she can see the image just bring in here on these rocks
this time notice those are not falling apart we've got a lot
megapixels police starting to go around about their
and this image could probably do the finish on it but we're not going into
the Photoshop techniques about
right now it's want to show you the stage and
the reasons you might wish to do it so as you can see
10-meter image totally pixelated resume right in bigger
with our long lens pan stage and its holding together beautifully
and really is all there is to it as any other software that you could use the
Penn State's is dedicated software out there
and Photoshop a semi skimmed a common fiscal
elements and will also have a Penn State's command any other night
I don't use it they got a guy so that's how simply is too great a pan stage
and if you get it right at the camera and what we did in the last film it
makes this end
so simple go have fun go play with it
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