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170 APPLYING | THE BRENIZER EFFECT

STITCHING TOGETHER BRENIZER

AND PANORAMIC PHOTOS

Once you have shot a Brenizer (see pp.104–105) or or Lightroom to stitch photos together. Photoshop
panoramic (see pp.64–65) sequence of photos, you is perhaps the better of the two because it provides
will need to stitch them together digitally to create you with more options. However, both of them offer
the final image. You can use either Adobe Photoshop the same basic Layout or Projection choices:

BRENIZER (STITCHED TOGETHER IN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP)

Photomerge
Layout Source Files
Auto OK Layers New Layer... N
Use: Files Copy CSS
Cancel Kind
Browse... Normal 100% Duplicate Layers...
Delete Layers
Perspective Remove 100% Delete Hidden Layers
Add Open Files Quick Export As PNG
Progress Export As...
Cylindrical
New Group...
Layout Align Selected Layers Based On Content New Group from Layers...
Collapse All Groups
Spherical Auto Cancel New Artboard...
Artboard from Group...
Artboard from Layers...
Collage Lock Layers...
Convert to Smart Object
Edit Contents
Reposition Perspective Blending Options...
Edit Adjustment...
Create Clipping Mask G
Blend Images Together Merge Layers Link Layers
Vignette Removal Merge Visible Selected Linked Layers
Geometric Distortion Correction Flatten Image Merge Layers E
Content Aware Fill Transparent Areas Merge Visible E
Flatten Image
SELECT AUTO PROCESSING TIME FLATTEN THE LAYERS
Open all of the photos that you Merging photos takes time, A new file will be created with the
want to stitch together. Next, go to File, particularly with high-resolution files. photos stacked as layers. If you want to
Automate, and then Photomerge. In the Merging quarter-sized copies of your be able to edit these layers, save the file
Layout column, select Auto. Check photos will be quicker. Because you are as a PSD or TIFF file. You can save a
Blend Images Together. Finally, click merging a lot of photos, the final image flattened image as a JPEG, but the
Add Open Files. will have a very high resolution. photo will lose some resolution.

CROP THE PHOTO THE RESULT
The flattened photo will have ragged edges. Use the Crop Check the entire photo carefully to see if there are any
tool to shape the image, holding down Shift as you drag your areas that have been misaligned. This can happen when part of
cursor to constrain the crop to a square. If you know the crop the scene, such as leaves, moves while you are shooting. Use
you’d like to set, input the aspect ratio in the Crop tool options bar. the Clone Stamp tool to repair these areas.

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