10 Replies to Quicker Panoramas:

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   Martha

   May 7, 2012 at 5:06 pm

   absolutely amazing!

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   Steve

   May 8, 2012 at 2:23 pm

   Awesome video Larry, thank you for doing this. Very easy to follow.

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   Susan

   May 9, 2012 at 6:06 am

   Fantastic! I could use some help on downsizing the originals. I tried by resizing the images but it still came out very large and unwieldy. Any tips gratefully accepted.

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   Lee

   May 9, 2012 at 10:17 am

   Thanks for the tutorial,Larry. Like the others, I appreciate your taking the time to do it.

   However, if one doesn’t want to scale down the files (because one wants to make a larger, good-quality print), I have found that PS(E) Panorama Photomerge is a simply horrible option. In many, if not most, instances it does an unacceptable job. And the fill option? It is worthless 99% of the time. In short, this subprogram is so pathetic, I don’t why Adobe even bothered to include it.

   On the other hand, I have found that ArcSoft’s PanoramaMaker 5 (for Mac) does a far, far superior job. And not only does it work in a small fraction of the time, it gives the options of producing a copy in either JPEG or TIFF formats. I now use this program exclusively and am rarely disappointed with the outcome.

   I don’t mean any disrespect to you, Larry. It’s just that I think that other PSE users should be advised not to expect superior, or even mediocre, results from the aspect of PSE.

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   Lee

   May 9, 2012 at 10:18 am

   Thanks for the tutorial, Larry. Like the others, I appreciate your taking the time to do it.

   However, if one doesn’t want to scale down the files (because one wants to make a larger, good-quality print), I have found that PS(E) Panorama Photomerge is a simply horrible option. In many, if not most, instances it does an unacceptable job. And the fill option? It is worthless 99% of the time. In short, this subprogram is so pathetic, I don’t why Adobe even bothered to include it.

   On the other hand, I have found that ArcSoft’s PanoramaMaker 5 (for Mac) does a far, far superior job. And not only does it work in a small fraction of the time, it gives the options of producing a copy in either JPEG or TIFF formats. I now use this program exclusively and am rarely disappointed with the outcome.

   I don’t mean any disrespect to you, Larry. It’s just that I think that other PSE users should be advised not to expect superior, or even mediocre, results from this aspect of PSE.

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   Howard

   May 10, 2012 at 6:42 pm

   The tutorial was great. How does one ‘downsize’ the image? Would it not be better to take a lower resolution image to begin with?

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     Lee

     May 17, 2012 at 5:47 am

     Open a photo(s) in PSE. Then go up to the menubar Image > Resize > Image Size. When the dialog box appears, you can alter you dimension size(s) and/or resolution size.

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   Howard PS

   May 15, 2012 at 5:33 am

   Looks interesting. I’m going to try the process.

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   Barry

   May 20, 2012 at 2:49 am

   I enjoyed Larry’s video very much. There is also more you can do. It’s late Autumn here in New Zealand and I photographed a lovely tree. I got down low and put a bit of foreground, some leaves, in the image. I took three or four vertical shots of the tree, bottom to top overlapping them as Larry suggests. I Photomerged the images and when finished used the Rectangular Lasso to select the lower part of the image. Then in Image>Transform>Free Transform I pushed up the bottom of the picture a bit. This simulated a very large depth of field and everything was tack sharp from foreground to background. I hope to put my picture in Subscriber Showcase soon.
   Barry

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   Ron

   May 25, 2012 at 4:36 pm

   The Ctrl E is new to me and helps from losing the original images that make up the Photomerge Pano. Thanks.

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