Combining Photos to create Panoramic

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
- The will be uneven but don’t worry about it.

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Step 4

Pick the Crop Tool
- This will put a box around your whole photo
Drag in the side to crop of what you don’t want
Click Enter to lock it in

Step 5

On the Layers Pallet
- Right click on the bottom layer
- Pick Flatten Image

Step 6: We need to make our photo smaller before we can do anything else

Go to
- Image
- Image Size

Step 7: Make sure you are on inches and not pixels

Horizontal Panoramic
- Change your Width to 30 inches.
  - Don’t worry about the height. It will change automatically
- Change the 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
Do NOT put your logo on this photo.
Save as jpeg

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Poster Directions

- Go to File- New
  - Width size- Add 4 inches to your width from your number above
  - Height size- Add 10 inches to your height from your number above
  - Background Contents-White

Drag the panoramic photo onto the new canvas and move.
Make sure that you leave more space at the bottom of the canvas then the top.
Click on the Text box (Tools section on the Left) and create a box below the panoramic photo. This is where you will type the information.
Click on the lines at the top of photoshop that says Center Text. This will make your text start in the center.

7. Type in the name of the location. Click on something that looks like a hyphen to separate the location name and city or state

Square Poster Directions

Open your Panoramic photo.
Go to Image- Image Size
Make sure you are on inches
Change your Width to 40 inches. Don’t worry about the height. It will change automatically.
Write down the height and width of your panoramic
Go to File-New
- Width size- Add 4 inches to your width from your number above
- Height size- Add 10 inches to your height from your number above
- Background Contents-White
Go to Layer- New Layer
- Name it square

7. Click on the Square Marquee Tool – See above photo where it is circled on the right side

Draw a box similar in shape to the one below. don’t make it to big or to small because you will be adding 4 boxes total

8. Make sure that the black color is selected at the bottom color pallet 9. Go to Edit- Fill- color- OK (It will fill the box with black)

10. Click on the Layer named Square

11. Click CONTROL and J at the same time. This will duplicate your square Layer. You should now have 3 layers 12. Click on the move tool and the Black Square. 13. Drag the square to the right. Leave space between the boxes. 14. Click Enter to lock it in.

15.. Click on the third layer (Second Square Layer ) 16. CONTROL and J at the same time. This will duplicate your square again 17. Click on the move tool and the square and drag it to the right. Leave space between the boxes and Click Enter to lock it in. 18. Repeat the above steps another time until you have 4 boxes

19. IMPORTANT STEP!!!!!!!!!!! On the Layers pallet, Un-click the Eye on the Background Layer. This will be hiding it. 20. Click on the first Layer that is called Square so that it is highlighted 21. Right click on it and click Merge Visible