CREATE PANORAMAS WITH PHOTO MERGE
5 There are several options on the preview panel. At the top
are buttons to select the Projection. Spherical places them
as though they were on the inside of a sphere, Cylindrical as
though they were on the inside of a cylinder and Perspective as
though they were on a flat surface. For a horizontal row of shots
like this, Cylindrical is best.
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The Auto Crop option will automatically crop out the
blank space around your merged frames. If all your
shots are perfectly level and properly aligned then it’s OK
to use this option for a quicker result; but since you’re
going to need to level the horizon in our example, leave this
unchecked when you process the merge.
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Once the merging process of the various images is
complete, open the merged panorama in the Develop
module, and use the Crop tool in the editing tools bar to level
the horizon and crop out the blank spaces around the edges of
the frame. Don’t forget to unlock the aspect ratio of the crop to
maximise the size of the frame.7 Boundary Warp is kind of the opposite of Auto Crop. It
warps your merged panorama to fill the available space
in the frame bounding frame. If you need your panorama to
be an accurate representation of the scene that you shot then
don’t use this; otherwise it does maximise the size of your
merged image.
10 Once you’ve cropped and straightened your merged
panorama you can further develop it just as you would
with any other image. You can use the Panorama Merge feature
to do more than just stitch together horizontal strips; try using
Spherical Projection and add in shots above and below the
horizon too!8 When you’re happy with your options settings, click on
the Merge button at the bottom of the panel. The panel
disappears and you can see a progress bar in the top left
corner of the Library screen. The merge process is fairly quick
and should only take a few seconds. The merged panorama
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