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photoshop cc
The Mission
Use Camera Raw or
Lightroom to merge
a set of bracketed
panorama
segments into an
HDR panoramaTime needed
15 minutesSkill level
BeginnerKit needed
Photoshop CC
or Lightroom
Classic CCview The video
oth Photoshop’s
Camera Raw plug-in
and Lightroom have
long offered separate
HDR and Panorama
features, but recently a new
feature has been introduced
that combines the two
commands into one.
Previously, we’d have to merge
HDRs first and then stitch them
into a panorama after, but this
handy new command performs
both tasks at once. It produces a
detail-rich Raw panorama with a
heavily expanded dynamic range,
making it easier to tease detail outof the tonal extremes. In this
straightforward tutorial,
we’ll explain how it’s done.
There are many situations in
which a HDR panorama might be
a useful technique. More often
than not, the point of a panorama
is to capture a sweeping
landscape, achieved by shooting
several segments, then stitching
them together. However with
landscapes there’s usually a slight
imbalance between land and sky- if we expose for the sky the
land comes out dark, while
exposing for the land can
end up blowing out the sky.
The solution is to shoot
bracketed images for each of these
segments. We of course start by
using a tripod, engaging the
camera’s bracketing feature and
then we shoot at least three
frames for the first ‘segment’
of the panorama, then pan the
camera horizontally (ensuring
there’s a little overlap) and shoot
another bracketed set, going on
until the whole scene is covered.
We may, as you would expect, end
up with a dozen or more shots,
thankfully they’re easily united
with the ‘Merge to HDR
Panorama’ feature...super-fast hdR
Raw Panoramas
James Paterson reveals a handy new Adobe CC feature that
enables you to create epic, highly detailed panoramas in secondsB
DownloaD projecT fileS
To your compuTer from:
http://downloads.
photoplusmag.com/pp155.zipvideo also online
http://bit.ly/pp_155_6.
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