Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

Updated on January 9, 2022 in Adobe Photoshop

Here is a video tutorial on how to compose the panorama view you captured with your DSLR or digital camera, unlike most smartphone that comes with build in panorama feature, most digital cam doesn’t due to the internal processor speed. Merging images into a panorama view is a time consuming task, if you’ve been creating panorama views by manually stitching them together using the good old copy and paste technique, then it is time to pick up this ‘old’ technique in Photoshop.

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

It is called Photomerge, all you need to do is select the images and hit the ‘ok’ button. An in-depth step by step tutorial:

Step 01 – Command

Go to ‘File’, ‘Automate’, and then select ‘Photomerge’.

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

Step 02 – Selecting the source files

A new window will appear, choose the source file by selecting ‘Browse’, when you’re done, hit ‘Ok’. Please note that you need not rotate the original file, photoshop will automatically tilt it accordingly depending on the camera angle.

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

The default setting for Photoshop CS2 is ‘interactive layout’. In Photoshop CS3, the dialog box is slightly different, you have a variety of choices like ‘auto’, ‘perspective’, ‘cylindrical’, ‘reposition only’, and ‘interactive layout’. The image below is a screen shot of the dialog box in Photoshop CS3, note the difference in CS2 with the additional settings on the left.

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Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

Step 03 – Composing the image

Hit the ‘OK’ button when you’re done, a new window will pop out (default in Photoshop CS2, in Photoshop CS3 you’ve been given a variety of options) with the newly composed panorama view, its automatic. Relax, take a seat and make yourself a cup of coffee, while photoshop is busy composing the panorama view.

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

Satisfied with the overall composition? Crop it!

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

Note (Photoshop CS2)

Amendments are allowed after the image is fully composed, simply drag and drop or reposition the image. Photoshop will automatically merge the new image with the existing panorama.

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

Compose Panorama View Automatically in Photoshop

The author is not a CAD expert nor a web genius. Just another guy spending too much time online. The tutorials featured here are meant for basic level understanding.

3 Comments

  1. For some reason this procedure is not working for me on Photoshop CS3, after I hit OK to load the selected pictures I see the program working on it to finally get “Some images could not be automatically aligned”. Any idea why? Thank you!

  2. Ngan, great tip, great site…i’m new to using CS3 for architecture (i’m a technician, so go easy on me)
    thanks again & keep up the great work

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