Easy Integration Between Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4

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Hi! This is Jerry Courvoisier and I am here at the Las Vegas Photoshop World today and what I would like to do is show you the integration between Lightroom and Photoshop CS4 with the panoramic feature. I am in the library mode within Lightroom and I have selected a series of images that I would like to create a panoramic image so the easiest thing to do is to first select your images and then move to the photo edit in Photoshop CS4. The difference with that now is that I have multiple images selected so I am able to use the merge to panoramic feature here and so I will click on this and I will be transported and linked to Photoshop.

So Photoshop is launched in within the dialogue box, the panel merge dialogue box. It shows you the images that you will be using to create the panorama and one thing we want to be aware of is that we want to make sure that this blend images is checked so that Photoshop will do its work and blend the images nicely. And within the grid mode within Lightroom and I am selecting a series of images that I would like to use for panoramic and work with the integration between Lightroom 2.0 and Photoshop CS4. I will select a series of images that I want to create this panoramic from so I have got five images so I would like to select three in the series to stitch together and have Photoshop work on aligning the common information between all three images. So I am going to go to edit in Photoshop and now that I have a series of three images selected, the option for merge to panorama and Photoshop is available. I am going to take these three images and transport them into Photoshop and then bring up the dialogue box for pano merge. I am just going to use the automated feature here and make sure that I have blend images together selected so that if there is any differences in exposure in the panoramic, Photoshop will compensate for it.

So, click okay and then we will build the file so now Photoshop is aligning the selected layers based on the image content. So, the idea behind creating a panoramic is to overlap your image shots associated with exposure so capture. So, they overlap by a third to a quarter, that way Photoshop can work with common information to seamlessly produce the panoramic.

So, now Photoshop is blending the selected information as well to create the panoramic. In this case here, a tripod was not used so there is some misalignment associated with the captures but what is available to you is a crop tool of course in Photoshop that we can just crop the image nicely to create the three frame panoramic in this case and double click to let it be so and there you have it, panoramic imaging in conjunction with Lightroom and Photoshop.

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