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Artificial intelligence that works - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Artificial intelligence that works
You know what digital panoramas are, right? You go out and shoot a sequence of pictures all from the same vantage point. You shoot one, pivot a little, shoot another, pivot some more, and so on, taking care to make sure you have some overlap from one photo to the next. Then you import the images into a photo stitcher, which merges them together. Photoshop has a built-in stitcher called Photomerge and it's really good. Not perfect in all cases, but awfully darn close. And it's flexible, meaning that you can modify it's behavior. Better still, Photomerge permits you to take your standard 12 to 20 megapixel images and blend them together to create hundred megapixel montages. At its heart Photomerge is a combination of two commands, Auto Align and Auto Blend, that let you merge multiple shots of landscapes, people, and things into perfect composites. Normally, I take a dim view of artificial intelligence. I'm sure one day super smart machines will make us quake in our boots. But for now…
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Artificial intelligence that works1m 22s
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The Auto-Align Layers command7m 25s
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The Auto-Blend Layers command3m 54s
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Masking auto-aligned layers4m 50s
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The Geometric Distortion setting6m 44s
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The Seamless Tones and Colors checkbox4m 8s
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Creating the best possible layer mask9m 18s
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Auto-blending depths of field5m 54s
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Finessing masks, accepting imperfections6m 29s
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Shooting and downsampling panorama images5m 54s
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Introducing the Photomerge command6m 40s
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Evaluating the Layout settings6m 47s
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Loading, aligning, and blending with Photomerge5m 36s
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Tracing and extracting seams7m 18s
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Adding a masked element into a panorama5m 55s
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Simplifying and correcting a panorama5m 58s
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Smart Filters and nondestructive cropping6m 43s
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