I’ starting making panoramas and am looking for the “easiest” way to get good ones. I tried photosticht which leaves a lot of artifatcs, and tried today with your method. After some time (slow PC) I was astonished by the almost seamless panorama that was processed, considereing that I shot a large residential / urban area from a hilltop. Unfortunately, CS4 did a shitty job on the sky and the top of the pictures, where Photostich made a perfect job .

I will try to play with the layers and the erase brush next time but I kinda suck at post processing… I downloaded a trial version of CS4 just to try that. I’m more into Lightroom.

Here is the pano, from 12 pictures, 1/3 overlap, M-mode, M-awb…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skygge/4370613545/

Thanks for the video anyways, seems you got lucky with this shot in full auto !

Just watched this vid because I’m new to lightroom and usually open my raw files from bridge then into photoshop. When I go from Bridge it works but when I go from LR the same raws refuse to create a pano. They load into PS3 but it tells me my images cannot be auto aligned. Do you know why it would be using a different script to bridge? Is it my camera raw version do you think?

Many thanks
Suzy

Also, I have found that by zooming in a little when composing the shot, it can avoid a bit of the buldging that occurs with thoses objects closer to you (like the ground or stray trees).

Especially when shooting a beach or anything past the 160 degree mark, what should be a vast horizion (sea) gets mashed into a u shape while the ends of the beach get stretched our of proportion.

Example from the weekend: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/2488863680_c2f93ba56b_o_d.jpg

In Lightroom’s preferences you can set the default external file format to either TIFF or PSD. Both are “lossless”, both support channels and layers. Photoshop of course additionally supports smart objects and adjustment layers as well.

So, since quality is not a question between PSD and TIFF, the choice becomes a bit subjective.

What is the best format to bring the pano back into LightRoom?

The few Panos I have tried have always put me back with a TIFF.

In the past I have always gone for PSD. Is there a quality difference between TIFF or PSD?

Thanks.

Looks like you solved the mystery… As you’ve found out, you’ll need to running Photoshop CS3 10.0.1 (or later) for the Lightroom 2 integration to work. Hopefully we’ll make this a little more obvious when the app is officially released.

Let me know how things work out!

Yes, that’s why I asked the questions I did. I get the same greyed-out options. I have a feeling we may need CS3 Extended for this to work, hopefully The Man will respond with an answer.

Cheers, Tim.

I tried this with RAW shots (.CR2) and with exported JPEGs as well. Neither worked. The same holds for selecting 2, 3, 5 or 10 shots. The options stay disabled. I also seem to have lost the possibility of stacking photos in Lightroom 2.0, because that setting is also disabled.

Is there something special you need to do to enable this functionality? I am on Leopard 10.5.2 if that helps.

Thanks for taking the time to do a video for us!

Regards,
Yves

Cheers, Tim