Taking the Panoramic Photos:

• Set your Camera to AV
• Set your Apeture between f/14
• You will be taking 4-5 photos total
  • Each photo will overlap the photo before it
    • Stand in the middle of the area you will be taking the panoramic photo 

First Photo: 

• • Take a photo at the far left of the panoramic 
  • When you are done taking the photo
    • Find a reference point in your photograph. 
      • This can be anything (car, tree, building, etc.)

Second Photo:

• • Move your camera to the right
    • Locate the reference point from photo 1
  • This second photo must overlap the 1st photo by at least 20%
    • If you don’t over lap enough photoshop will not be able to stitch it together.

Third through fourth/Fifth Photo:

• • Move your camera to the right 
    • locate the reference point from photo 2
  • The 3rd photo must overlap the 2nd photo by at least 20%
  • Continue for the 4th and 5th photo

Combining Photos to create Panoramic 

Do NOT open your images!  You will be loading them into photoshop during step 1!!!!

Step 1

• Go to
  • File
    • Automate
      • Photomerg

Step 2

• Click Auto
  • Click Browse
    • Pick the 5 photos you took for the panoramic photo.
      • Click OK
        • Sit back and wait while Photoshop combines them

Step 3

•  Your photos will be stitched together in photoshop
  • It will be uneven but don’t worry about it.

Step 4

• Pick the Crop Tool
  
  • Crop out the area with the checkered background
    
    • Click Enter 

Step 5

• Go to Layers Pallet
  • Flatten Image

Step 7:

Make sure you are on inches and not pixels

Horizontal Panoramic 

• • Width to 30 inches. 
    • Don’t worry about the height.  It will change automatically
  • Resolution to 72

Vertical Panoramic 

• • Change your Height to 30 inches. 
    • Don’t worry about the width.  It will change automatically
  • Change the Resolution to 72
    • Click ok

Step 8

• Edit in Camera Raw to make the colors stand out
  
  • Save as jpeg

1. Horizontal Panoramic  

• • Must be ON CAMPUS

• • Follow directions to combine your images

• Edit to make the colors stand out.

• Must be ON CAMPUS
• Follow directions to combine your images
• Edit to make the colors stand out.