How to Make a Panograph

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Go out into the world and find something interesting to shoot.

   Pick your point of view, making sure you can see everything you want to shoot without moving from your position.
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   Step 2: Manually set the white balance

   This ensures that it doesn't light meter every shot and your photos aren't all differently exposed.
   
   If you want your panography to consist of many individual photos, zoom in a bit.
   
   If it's your first try, you may want to stay zoomed out so you'll have fewer shots to assemble at the end. , Don't move from your position, but do move your lens in all directions.
   
   Try tilting your camera to different angles to soften the straight panorama look.
   
   Keep in mind that the more your shots overlap, the easier it'll be to assemble your panography later. , We tend to only photograph the interesting spots, like lines and busy areas, and oftentimes forget to get the plain areas.
   
   Leave a shot out and you'll be left with a hole in your final piece with no way to fill it! , It's tedious to do this manually for each photo; so to expedite the process, record the resizing and saving of one photo as a new Photoshop Action.
   
   Then go to File > Automate > Batch to select the new action and apply it to your entire folder of panography photos.
   
   This is also where you can select photomerge and have Photoshop do all the work. , If it turns out the canvas is too small, you can always add some space later (Image > Canvas).
   
   Copy the new 800px versions of your images into your canvas--5 to 10 images at a time ought to be manageable. , Using the Transform function (Ctrl/Apple+T), start rotating each photo to fit the ones next to it.
   
   Be careful to make sure you're rotating (you should see a curved arrow tool when you're near a corner) and not skewing the photographs.
   
   Now go photo by photo and assemble your panography like a puzzle.
   
   It will take a while to get it right, so be sure to save your work as you go along. , Go to the layer palette and add a new adjustment layer of any kind by clicking the round black/white symbol. , Be sure to save this file separately instead of overwriting the original, which you'll want to keep in case you want to make changes later.
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   Step 3: f-stop

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   Step 4: and shutter speed on your camera.

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   Step 5: Point and shoot.

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   Step 6: Make sure you cover every spot with at least one picture.

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   Step 7: Unload your camera and

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   Step 8: using Photoshop

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   Step 9: resize your photographs (try width or height of 800 pixels).

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    Step 10: Create a fairly large new RGB canvas to work on.

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    Step 11: Set the opacity of each photo to about 50%.

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    Step 12: When you're finished assembling the photos together

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    Step 13: make final color

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    Step 14: contrast

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    Step 15: and levels adjustments.

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    Step 16: To share your panography or post it online

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    Step 17: just combine all the layers (Shift+Ctrl/Apple+E)

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    Step 18: and resize your image.

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