I have taken 5 pic of a mountain range & when i merge it in the Photoshop, i am getting a line which show the all the 5 pic are stict together to get the Panoram. I am using Photoshop 7, but i have photomerge in photoelement too.

Looking for a aptimum solution for the same & how could i can remove this lines & should i go to any Photoshop expert to get the job done.

Attaching the image which i am facing problem. or u can see my gallery in the below link http://rawat.fotopic.net/

best regards & happy new year.........kiran

Kiran, i have never tried photomerge before. Don't know if this is a common problem. Did you use the same camera settings, f-stop and shutter speed, for each section of the panorama?
kiska

I think your problem is where you get your meter reading for each shot. You will obviously get a different exposure if on one frame you meter the mountain and the second the sky. Many cameras have an AE (Auto Exposure) feature. Click and hold on the the same spot on one picture and recompose all other frames based on this exposure.

Cheers
Dave

The two keys for shooting a panorama like this are to shoot them fast, and shoot them on the same settings. (I use a mount that centers the film or chip over the pivot point to prevent distortion.) Get ready for the first shot, set your apature and shutter speed, get everything in focus. Then as fast as you can, shoot, turn, shoot, until you have all the pictures. If you leave anything on auto, you'll get the inconsistency and the panorama won't blend well.

As to the one you're working on, just try to match the images manually as well as you can.

Take care,

Michael

Hi Kiran, the problem you have is quite common, as Mike said it is necessary to ensure you use the same settings, and take the shots quickly to avoid changes in exposure. What I usually do is to do a levels adjustment on each shot to even out the exposure prior to doing a photomerge. However, you will almost always get some variation across the panorama. This can be evened out with a soft light layer, and paint in light and dark using soft black and white brushes set to approx 10%. I enclose a picture of my own done using this method.

I have had very good success using the color match feature to help match the layers in a panoramic photo. Since you can match a layer to another layer in the same file it's pretty easy and can help greatly.

Here is a panoramic I made from 4 photos using the color match method as the main means of matching the layers to each other. Of course I felt obligated to remove the telephone lines, air conditioning compressor and trash dumpster from the foreground of the photos. :) But then the pictures were shot from a gas station parking lot so what can you expect.

Please post your results because your photos will make great panoramic pics.

Jim

I've only done a few panaramic pictures, but had quite good success with them. I'm afraid I can't post any at the mo as my main graphics pc is down.

Having run photoshop's photomerge, tick the box that leaves the layers separate - this then gives you the ability to do all the 'tweaking' that we love. There are odd bits that I've needed to Free Transform to match properly, and run slight levels adjustments (adj layers) to each layer to get a perfect blend. I found it easier to do the levels adjustments once the panorama was done, so I could see exactly what needed doing. You can get a perfect panorama in just a few minutes doing it that way.

thx guys,
thx for ur support, attaching different paranoma done in Photoshop element photomerger.
i do have taken pic in apeture mode only, that is why i got different sutter speed, well i will not do this kinda of mistake in future
Colite.....this paranoma is for u

I shoot almost only panos and mosaics and have put together hundreds, some with as many as 36 photos, avg. for a typical shot is 12.

Tip One - Lock the white balance. This is a must!!!

Tip Two - For you first 10 panos use the same exposure for all shots. This means you need to think about the total exposure for the full view and balance it. I have some shots that I have blended exposures from 8 sec. to 1/8 sec.

Tip Three - Use the best software I use PTgui. It can be found here http://www.ptgui.com/

Another software that is almost exactly the same is PTassembler it can be found here http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm

Also read the forms for PTassembler they are the best bar none and all the info will work for PTgui also. http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/

To do panos RIGHT has a bit of a learning curve but the rewards are so so big.

To see just a few of my photos check out http://www.absoluteinspiration.com/

If you email me the orginals for one of your panos I could throw it together for you. ai@absoluteinspiration.com

Wizzard7. Good Stuff! I have a Nikon D100 which has a number of white balance settings. What do you mean by locking?

Dave

I have the Nikon D70 which is a very simlar camera.

What you want to do is use a pre-set white balance e.g.

If shooting outdoors I typicaly use the sunshine preset white bal., as opposed to auto white bal.

If shooting indoors I typicaly use manual white bal. using a sheet of epson mate paper to set it against.

Look in your manual for how to set them for you camera (it's easy).

By the way some people think that if you shoot in RAW you don't have to worry about white bal. But I have found that it is always better to get the white bal. somewhat close (within at least 1000 degrees)

For the first few panos I would suggest shooting them in JPG. Unless you understand RAW well.

For highest quality I would suggest when shooting panos using RAW mode. The reason being when putting the photos together the extra data in RAW can curb posterization espically in the sky. Then when converting the RAW file if you have shot the pano with all the same exposures and white bal. just use "as shot" to a 16 bit file.

Then take those files into PTgui or PTassembler to put them together.

You also should look for emblend and autopano. They are plug-ins for PTgui and PTassembler that automate the process quite a bit. There is info about both of them in the forms at the PTassembler site.

Watch out it shooting panos and big mosaics can be very addicting. I have photos from my D70 that would rival an 8X10 film camera. I can print them at 32"X40" with well over 300 dpi. and no up-sampling.

thx wizard,

i have downloaded the PTassembler, but i have to learn to make the perfect paranoma, hence i have mailed u five pic for the paranoma

i am impressed with your side, how u manage to take 25 pic & merged them to get best quality & big size

i too want to learn the way u click the paronama, firstly i have to arrange the software to work upon it

best rg...hope to get more paro....bye...god bless u

kiranrawat

Try this, it is excellent

http://www.creativepro.com/img/story/030904_russellbrown.pdf