Hello, welcome to Knowledge City's Advanced Course from Adobe Photoshop. My name is Jeff Drylowitz and I'll be teaching you how to create a panorama using a series of photos. In order to use the photo merge command, you must have a series of photos that overlap each other by about 40%. This is important because not having enough overlap will leave Photoshop without enough visual information to stitch the images together. So I have a series of photos I have taken and saved and organized them into a folder here. This could be local in your desktop or even in Creative Cloud. So you can see the files that I have saved and that would use my panorama. So I've got these pictures here of the hallway and I've got it broken down into four images and this is what I want to use to create my panorama. So to get started, I don't even have to open a new file. What I can just do is come to Photoshop, come up to File, then go to Automate and down to Photo Merge. So what happens when I open up Photo Merge is I get this dialog box. Now within here, I've got a lot of options in terms of the layout, auto, perspective, cylindrical, spherical, collage and reposition, keeping it very simple for this one and I'm just going with auto. I've also got some options down below, blend images together, which is very important. That's the one you want to keep. The yet removal geometric distortion correction and content fill transparent areas. We don't need to worry about that right now. Since I want to use files of what I've already got a saved, I'm going to click on Browse and I've got the four I would like to use here. So I'm going to select all of them, click my top one, hold Shift and click the bottom and then hit Open. So you can see these are the four I want to work with. And once I'm ready with this and I'm going to happy with it, I'm going to click OK. So Photoshop is going to align and merge the photos. So we give it a moment, as you can see, it's working right now. So now that it's finished, each photo has been blended and masked to fit. So you can leave this as is with the four layers right here and so I'm going to show two different options I can go with. I can leave it like this is. I can hit C for my crop tool and I can just crop down to whatever portion of this hallway I would like in return and there we go. That is one way to go about this. The other. So let me undo that with Command Z, since I've got all these layers selected, I can put them into a folder and then I'm going to hit Command J and duplicate that folder. So now I've got it back up as well. And I want to actually flatten this one and I'm going to merge it all together. So what I can do here, actually what I'm going to do instead is go up to Layer and I'm going to do Merge Group. So now I've got this all saved as one layer. I'm going to use my Content Aware to fix up the edges here. So what I want to do with that is I'm going to use my Marquee tool and I'm just going to start working on a few sections at a time. So I'm going to go to Edit, Content Aware Fill and you can see over here what it's going to look like when it's finished. If I'm happy with it, I'm going to hit Apply and okay, so I'm going to keep working my way through here and I would suggest doing smaller sections at a time because if it's reading too much information, it's going to have a hard time and make things look kind of strange. You can see in the preview how it's looking, continue working my way across here, actually I don't want to get the vent, it's very thin, strip up top. So I'm going to keep working my way across, I'm going to work my way to the bottom as well. Now it's a bit easier when you are working with areas that don't require a lot of geometric shapes and hard angles, nature works a lot better in some of these cases. Not going to worry about the very edge of it there, but I do want to get that carpet. And keep in mind, I'm doing the carpet and the post separately. So you want to make sure that the carpet pattern and texture is not being included within that beam right there, that post. So now not great right here in this edge, I'm going to go back and fix that. But for now, I do want to focus on just getting this carpet here a little more. And lastly, we're going to get the very edge of the photo here, we have a spot down here at the bottom, I would like to get as well. Again, I'm going to have to work with that a little bit, but we have tools to do that. So this is where I'm getting into more of the cleaning up process here. So I'm going to find some spots that are going to be a bit problematic. I've got this wire that goes to nowhere. I've got the missing part of my pole here or the beam. What I will do is I will crop some of the area out first because I want to avoid some spots. So you know, near the top where the vent kind of got messed up and the window above the door and even right off the edge here to the right side, I might bring this in from the left as well. It's kind of like dead space there. All right, so to clean these up, I've got some tools that I can work with. And mainly they're going to be located over here. I've got clone stamp that'll work just fine. Could also work with spot healing brush, patch tool, content, aware, you know, feel different things. I'm going to go with spot healing first and I'm going to brush over this wire. I'm going to use the brackets to make my brush a little bit bigger. Now this section of a wall that's coming down, that is where I'm going to go clone stamp. Remember, the big thing clone stamp is you can have it work with all layers. As you can see up here, so I'm going to make a new blank layer. I'm going to hold down option, make my source or set my source and just brush that in a little bit down here at the bottom. You know, get that bit of a harder edge to make it work. Same with over here. Now I do want to change the hardness of my brush, bring it up all the way, set my source and just bring it down. And ultimately, I think I'm going to crop the bottom a little bit. I'm just going to save these little corner up here, our little edge. I like that better. Now, yeah, I'm going to crop the bottom out a bit more and here we go. We've got our panorama made up of four different photos, and that's all for our lesson on creating horizontal panorama. So come back for our next lesson where we'll learn how to create a vertical panorama. Thanks for watching.
