ABSTRACT
Photomerge Photomerge can mainly be used to stitch photographs together to create panoramic compositions. There are other programs that can do this with varying degrees of success, but I would say that the Photomerge feature in Photoshop has now evolved to become one of the best panorama stitchers out there. The complex interactive layout dialog option from the old Photomerge has been removed and, instead, you are offered a simple choice of layout options, of which Auto is usually the best one to choose. There are four main ways to use Photomerge. You can go to the File ➯ Automate menu in Photoshop, and click on the Browse… button in the Photomerge dialog (circled in Figure 9.1) and select a folder of images, or browse through the folders on your computer to add specifi c photos. Or, if the images you wish to merge are already open in Photoshop, select the Open Files option. The easiest way though is to select the images you wish to merge via Bridge and then choose Tools ➯ Photoshop ➯ Photomerge. This also pops the same Photomerge dialog as shown in Figure 9.1,
Figure 9.1 You can use the File ➯ Automate ➯ Photomerge… command in Photoshop, or choose Tools ➯ Photoshop ➯ Photomerge… in Bridge, to see the Photomerge dialog shown here.
