Merging Photos the Easy Way in Photoshop

Now, let’s merge the same two pictures using Photomerge, which has been considerably
enhanced for Photoshop.


1. Choose File > Automate > Photomerge.

2. Select the files you’d like to merge. You can choose the files to combine in three ways:
■ Select Files from the drop-down Use list to browse for files on your hard disk.
■ Select Folders from the drop-down Use list to select all the files in a particular folder.
■ Choose Add Open Files from the list to select from files already open in Photoshop. All the
files will appear in the center list, where you can select one or more and click the Remove button
to delete them.

3. Select one of the five Layout options from the left side of the dialog box.



4. Mark the Blend Images Together checkbox if you want Photomerge to attempt to fuse the images together smoothly.

5. Click on OK to start the process. Photoshop will examine the images and attempt to match them If it cannot, you’ll see the dialog box Click on OK, and then drag the images onto the Photomerge workspace


6. If you’re manually lining up images, each image will become semitransparent
as you drag so you can line up its overlapping area with the image underneath.
Photomerge has tools at the left side of the workspace that can be used to
move, rotate, or zoom in on the image, and to set a “vanishing point” that
defines the imaginary horizon when using the Perspective options of
Photomerge.

7. Click the Reposition Only button box on the right side of the dialog. You’d
use the Perspective choice instead if you needed to adjust the tilt of the images.
Our test images are a good match perspective-wise, so Reposition Only works
just fine.

8. Mark the Snap to Image box. This tells Photoshop to go ahead and move one
or more of the images being merged to more closely line up the common
areas.

9. Click on OK to merge the images. You’ll end up with several layers containing
each of the original images, with layer masks applied to blend them
together. You can edit the layer masks or perform other modifications to the
individual components to better match them.
10. When satisfied, flatten the image.
11. Crop the resulting image