How to photomerge in Photoshop Tutorial

[rickztahone]

I realized I did a few stitch jobs on the photo journey pictures and wanted to make a quick tutorial on how I went about doing it. Tried to keep it short and to the point. Let me know what you think:

https://youtu.be/LlOQbgS5dZQ

[Discus-n00b]

Actually glad you posted, I've fought panos before at the end due to the transparent space warped on the image due to panning. Ideally you take more photos and add to the pan, but most of us usually don't. Never even knew about the perspective crop. Thank you!! Might have to dig into the archives and see if the Grand Canyon panos are actually usable.

Need to get you a mic! ;) Pretty good for pointing a camera at a bright screen though, I've actually been looking for a capture program/card/whatever.

[rickztahone]

Actually glad you posted, I've fought panos before at the end due to the transparent space warped on the image due to panning. Ideally you take more photos and add to the pan, but most of us usually don't. Never even knew about the perspective crop. Thank you!! Might have to dig into the archives and see if the Grand Canyon panos are actually usable.

Need to get you a mic! ;) Pretty good for pointing a camera at a bright screen though, I've actually been looking for a capture program/card/whatever.

I have an external mic, however, it was behind me to my right on the camera shoe. Additionally, I am not sure what causes that static noise on playback. My mic has an option for "low cut" (if I remember correctly) but not sure if that is to reduce this type of noise? Either way, I don't do many of these type of videos to invest in a full fledged mic, but next time I can possibly place the mic closer to my mouth, lol.

I'm glad you like the tutorial though, like I said, everyone does it a little different but that is how I always do my stitching. Additionally, I only partially touched base as to why I edit the files first. If, for whatever reason, you decide to work with the unedited shots first, you would have to do the following after you have stitched:

-Save file as TIFF
-go to PS directly and open up your mini-bridge
-from mini bridge, select the folder where the TIFF file is located
-right click file and open in Camera RAW

At this point you can edit the shot as it was stitched.

Again, I personally hate this for a few reasons, first, my mini bridge becomes unresponsive many times and I know others that have this same problem.
additionally, when you right click from bridge directly, it never lets you open the file to Camera RAW, it tells you there was a pathway error. Again, a problem that I know others have. So, in order to avoid that, I do a batch sync edit of all the shots before they ever get stitched. Helps greatly IMHO