From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas

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Choosing an alignment method

Choosing an alignment method

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Choosing an alignment method

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- We've spent a little bit of time inside the photo merge box, and you might've noticed in the left hand column that there are some important choices. I want to walk you through how they work. Let's take a look at a few options here. You may recall that when working with images, a photo merge command gave you a few different options. If I choose photo merge and load those, I really have different choices. Perspective is built off of a strong central area, while cylindrical bends the images from panning, and spherical deals with more subject matter from top to bottom, usually used more for 360 degree or interactive panoramas. The collage method just aligns the images, and reposition moves them up or down. Collage is useful if you want to be a bit more artistic. Now, choosing different methods gives you very different results. I've already merged these, so let's take a look inside of processed here. You'll see that each is handled a little bit differently. Cylinder pans nicely. In this…

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