So last week I was visiting The Art Institute of Chicago, ( Best museum & school in the world! It’s my alma mater, so I’m allowed to be biased.) and I totally spaced- left the camera at home. Needless to say there were tons of great photo op’s but I was only armed with my iphone. So if life deals you lemons, try making a panorama. I decided to snap away on my little camera phone. The following series of shots were taken simply by standing in one place, shooting, turning, and repeating. Nothing special, or technical at all.
So what I’m going to show you next is truly one of the coolest features in Photoshop. I downloaded all the photos from my camera to my computer. Then I opened all the photos in Photoshop. Be sure to have only the photos you want to use open. Next go to File> Automate>Photomerge. This little window will open.
Next simply click the “add open files” button, and then click OK. Photoshop begins to work it’s magic. In about a minute Photoshop merges, blends, masks, and adjusts the photos into a panorama. A process that could take hours to perform manually.
Your left with an image that looks something like this:
The next step is to simply crop the image.
You can do any color adjustments you like, but what you see here is “as is” & adjustment free. Pretty amazing! What you probably can’t tell from the photo is that this image is actually 20″ x 86″ in size. I did absolutely zero size adjustments. That will make for really nice sized canvas print. All from a iphone! YAY!
