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Introducing the Photomerge command - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Introducing the Photomerge command
In this exercise, we'll take our first look at the Photomerge command, and I'll show you how the various layout options work. I'm currently in the Bridge, looking at the contents of the Theatre Antique d'Orange folder, and I'd like you to select all 14 images, by pressing Ctrl+A or Command+A on the Mac. Then to invoke Photomerge, go up to the Tools menu, choose Photoshop, and choose Photomerge. Now I've been telling you this command is a combination of Auto-Align layers and Auto-Blend layers, which is true, but it starts off by invoking Load Files into Photoshop Layers. So it loads all the files into a layered Photoshop composition, and then finally it applies Auto-Blend Layers. Anyway, all you have to do is choose this one command, Photomerge, and that goes in and switches you to Photoshop and loads all the images as well into this Photomerge dialog box. So you should see all 14 of your images listed. It doesn't matter what order they are listed in, because Auto-Align Layers, if it…
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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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