How to Make a Panorama Photo in Camera RAW tutorial

 

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How to Make a Panorama Photo in Camera Raw TutorialHey guys, Colin Smith here from PhotoshopCAFE and today I'm going to show you how to create a panorama inside of Adobe Camera Raw. If it's not amazing enough that we could do panoramas inside of Camera Raw, we've also got some really powerful adjustment and correction tools inside of there to fix all that little idiosyncrasies that happen sometimes when we're making panoramas.  So, I think you 're really going to enjoy this.  Let's jump in and have a look at creating a panorama inside of Camera Raw.  So check out what I've got here.  I've got seven photographs that I 've shot.  I've got three from the bottom, and then, four from the top.  So we're actually going to build a 7-imaged, 2-layered panorama right here inside of Adobe Camera Raw. So, now, this was shot on a DJI Inspire 1 with an X5 camera, and so you can see it'snot necessarily going to be an easy one to work with, so I've selected all of those images, and I'm going to right-click, and I'm going to choose Open in Camera Raw.  And notice here, in the film strip, you can see all the photos.  They all open inside of Camera Raw.  So we want to select them all, so we're just going to get this little tab at the top and chooseSelect All.  All the images are now selected.  So we're going to right-click, and then, we 're going to choose Merge to Panorama, and boom! There it is.  This is what it is going to look like, right there.  You can see we're using the spherical projection.  You can try cylindrical see how that looks.  Perspective just won't work at all, so I'm not even going to bother with it, but spherical usually works the best. Now here's a couple of things you can do.  If you look around here, we've got all this transparency around the edges.  If we pull the Boundary Warp up, notice how that just starts to fill those up, and you can actually go all the way until it entirely fills it. But because it was uneven on the top and the bottom, it's not really working too well for his image.  Now Boundary Warp works really well for a single layer panorama, but for two players, you have to have them absolutely perfectly aligned, otherwise, it's going to get weird like this.  You're going to get this pinching effect.  But don't worry about it. We're going to hit the Auto Crop here and this will hide those edges and you know what?We've got everything we want right there.  So what we're going to do now is we're going to choose Merge.  And when we do this, it's going to create a new image.  It's actually DNG image it's going to create and we're just going to save it.  And you can see right there, here we are in Camera Raw and this is our new image.  All right, so looking pretty good, but if you look at it, notice these buildings are kind of tilted over.  We've not some weird distortion going on there.  We want to fix that and we can fix it right here inside of Camera Raw.  We don't even have to leave it.  We're going to go up to this new toolótheTransform Toolóand this will give us our Upright adjustments. Now there's a new one right here called Guided.  We're going to click on that and how this works is when we do horizontal or vertical lines, it's actually going to warp the image to fit those lines.  So we're going to set, create the first one down here on that side of that building, and then we're going to release.  It's not going to do anything yes because it needs two lines to work between so it can push and pull.  So what we're going to do is go to the other side here in this building and we're going to pull this down, and we're going to say, you know what? I want this to be perfectly vertical.  So notice both of these are leaning in, but then, we release it and boom! Look at that.  It fixes it immediately. Now the other thing we can do is we could also go across and apply two more.  We can apply horizontal ones.  So the maximum amount you're allowed to play is four. So I look at this part of the building here.  That should be level.  So I'm just going to go across here and I'm just going to drag and make sure that that is about level, because they don't usually build buildings on a lean, and you can see right there, man, I'm not really liking it too much.  I'm actually going to undo it by deleting it and we're going to try and level it, maybe, here instead.  There we go.  That's a much better result. Okay, notice though we've got a lot of this image missing, so we want to zoom out a little bit and have a look at it.  So we can, actually, go through and zoom out, so if you go under here, you'll see the scale, and if we pull back on the scale, we can see the entire image there.  Now, if you wanted more of this image in the shot, you could actually just open like that and then use Content Aware Fill, but in this case, I'm actually okay to just scale it back.  And notice it's actually looking pretty good, right there.  So that's cropping, and we're straightening it, and we're showing everything we want.  You can also slide to the side using the Offset X.  We can move it side to side.  See that? Or we can also move it up and down use the Offset here, so if it's different parts of the image that you want to appear in there, you can do that.  So there are all the adjustments we made thereto our panorama.  I'm just grabbing the magnifying glass to open up our settings here, and we could just recover a little bit of Highlight there, so this area is looking a little better. We could open up our Shadows a little bit and we want to set our white point and we also want to set our black point. And I'm just actually going to go here and do a little bit of white balance.  It feels a little too warm, let's just pull it back slightly.  And I'm just going to increase theExposure just a touch.  So what we're doing is just kind of adjusting this.  I feel like the Shadows, I don't quite like what we got there, so I want to give it a little moreContrast.  There we go.  So that's looking pretty good and we could give this just a little touch of Clarity and you know what? And we're done and we haven't even left Camera Raw. So, right now, we're working on a DNG file and we're right here.  We haven't even opened this in Photoshop yet, so you can see, this is absolutely amazing. All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed that and you're probably going to agree with me these are some really amazing tools inside of Camera Raw for working with panorama.  Lightroom can actually do the same thing and I have other videos that show you how to do that inside of Lightroom.  So, if you enjoyed this, hit the Subscribe button because I got plenty more tutorials and I'm making a new tutorial every single week.  I'd love for you to have it.  Also, add a comment.  Have a discussion going here.  What do you think about this?Are you working with raw files? Have you shot panoramas? Do you like working in Camera Raw do you prefer Lightroom? Let us know, and add a Like if you like this, share it with your friends, and until next time, I'll see you at the cafe.