Edit the shot
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Final steps Click the ‘Merge’ button;
Lightroom will stitch the images
together and create a new DNG file. After
this you can open this file and edit as you
would with any other Raw file – adjusting
white balance, tonal adjustments and so
on as needed.1
Import and merge Firstly, import
the images into Lightroom. Do
not make any adjustments to
individual files. Then, select all the
images you want to stitch, and go to
Photo>Photomerge>Panorama.2
Panorama merge In the Preview
Photomerge dialogue box there
are three projections to choose from:
Spherical, Cylindrical and Perspective.
Here, Spherical gives the best result.
Autocrop removes any undesired
transparent areas around the edges of
the image.3
Boundary Warp Use the Boundary
Warp slider to warp the image to
fill the canvas; this will enable you to
recover parts of the image that are lost
when cropping. Here, some extra sky and
foreground detail has been included in
the image.BEForETop
Before and after stitching
the unprocessed images, as
they appear when first imported
into lightroom, compared to
the final image, which has been
stitched and processed13shootIng skIlls