Stitching Files to Make Wide View

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i_am_jim
Mar 16, 2008
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I need to make a wall of plaques into one wide photo. In the past I’ve done this sort of thing manually using layers and transform tools, but this one is more trouble and I was trying to do it automatically. I stumbled onto the Align-Layers feature and thought it was my answer, but it tapers the shots on the ends.

This composite of 6 images was made using Align-Layers. Each shot was made standing directly in front of the plaque and, had the same appearance of every other shot.
http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/5186/plaquepanaromawt0.jp g

It did a remarkably good job of doing what it did, but I wanted a result where the wall and plaques were the same height from right to left as they were in the original images.

Is there a way to do what I need in Photoshop?

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Phosphor
Mar 16, 2008
What version? Try File>Automate>Photomerge in CS and above..
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i_am_jim
Mar 17, 2008
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:08:49 -0700, "Ed Hannigan" wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

What version?

CS3

Try File>Automate>Photomerge in CS and above.

Interesting. I didn’t know that was there. It is the same set of functions as in Edit > Auto-Align Layers, with one addition.

There’s a fifth option called Interactive Layout. It’s the perspective I want but it doesn’t knit the images together. It resizes them and sort-of lines them up. Here’s the result that one gives. Still unacceptable, but for a different reason.
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7439/plaquepanaroma2dj4.j pg

Also, isn’t there a Reposition Only Option in the Auto-align?

Yes, but the Reposition Only seem completely useless. It makes no attempt to knit the images together. It does put them in the correct order, but it just stacks them side by side — overlapping them in a seemingly random manner.

I don’t have it, but so I see on this site:
<http://photoshopcafe.com/cs3/smith-aa.htm>

I don’t know how he got that flat/horizontal result. I’m doing exactly what he did to get the result in my original post.
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Mar 17, 2008
You might want to check out PTgui, a third-party panorama generator that uses the PanoTools platform. <http://www.ptgui.com> .
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John_Joslin
Mar 17, 2008
Try File>Automate>Photomerge in CS and above.

Interesting. I didn’t know that was there.

You know the answer to that _jim — RTFM!

Or at least explore the interface when you get a new program.

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