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Tracing and extracting seams - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Tracing and extracting seams
I've saved the results of the Photomerge command as Multilayer panorama.psd, found inside the 32_photomerge folder. And if you take a look down here at the bottom-left corner of the image window, notice that it's telling us that the flattened size of this image would be almost 40 MB, so that's a pretty big flat file. The layered version of file, after the slash, is nearly 200 megs in size, which is a fairly whoppingly big file to open inside of Photoshop. So if you're working on a somewhat underpowered system, this file might present a challenge for you. It might not open successfully. In any case, you can watch it with me, so. Now, let's say you want to be able to evaluate those seams, so you want to draw those seams as I drew them for you a couple of exercises ago. Here's what you do. It actually it takes a few steps. First of all, you select any one of these layers, and you drop down here to the fx icon, and you click on it, and you choose the Stroke command. And the stroke I…
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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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