You can learn about my original photo plan in this article. Below this is some of the work that went into processing the panoramic image made during that outing. Specifically, this is about the work on the panorama after assembly using Photomerge controls in Photoshop.
Panorama layers
After the image was assembled into a layer, the area around the stitch was corrected and filled. I save this image as a separate document in case any fixes were missed. I like to keep layered files on hand so I don’t have to go all the way back to the beginning in case of a mistake along the way.
Cropped image
I recommend keeping the camera in the vertical orientation while capturing panoramas. This gives you some more image real estate with which to work. Once the image has been worked to this point, it’s time to crop for panoramic composition. Above is my crop of this photo. Once I have this layer, it’s time to do some massaging of color and tones to bring my visualization of the scene to fruition.
Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) as a filter
I’ll make a copy of the layer and move to the filters menu. The Camera Raw filter gives you all of the controls of ACR.
I move to the Masks panel and make corrections to individual areas. Opening shadows, localized colors, adding texture or taking it away and more are possible. The masking features are pretty incredible. You can check out another article for more on using masks in ACR here.
The finale
In the fourth ‘Photograph with a plan’ article will conclude with how I take the realistic renditions of my images and add depth and dimension, color and texture to take them beyond straight photography.
Yours in Creative Photography, Bob
