Processing a Panorama in Lightroom

Name: Processing a Panorama in Lightroom
Author: Jeff Shaffer

In these lessons, you will understand how to work with panorama images in Lightroom. You will learn how to bring and adjust panorama images for editing, as…

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Hello. In today's lesson we'll process a panorama from a series of images captured using a tripod all employing the same exposure in the raw format. Consistent exposure helps Lightroom create a seamless panoramic image. If your camera has it do not use the automatic panorama mode it will not work in Lightroom. Command click or control click on the PC to select the series of exposures wanna use. In this instance all the images have been captured vertically. While this may seem counterintuitive for a panorama, shooting a series of verticals limits optical distortion on a horizontal axis. Which can occur when rotating the camera to capture the panorama. Particularly if wide angle lenses are used to make the initial captures. This does not preclude you from shooting a series of horizontals however. And sometimes the composition works much better if it's shot that way. Once the images have been selected you can choose photo, photo merge, panorama merge. Or right click and choose that command from the pull down menu. Or even use the keyboard shortcut. Control + M on the mat. This will take you into a different interface to show you the merging occurring. And you have a preview image that it results. There are several what are known as layout projection options. Spherical, cylindrical, and perspective. Spherical aligns then transforms the images as if they were inside a sphere. Which simulates the experience of a 360 panorama. If you've taken a set of images that covers 360 degrees, use this option. This projection mode is great for really wide or multi-role panoramas. The images I captured here only cover about 180 degrees. But it already looks pretty good with that option. Cylindrical, projects the panorama as if it were on the inside of a cylinder. Preview that. This projection model works really well for wide panoramas. But it also keeps the vertical straight. As you can see here. It clearly doesn't work for this set of images, however. As it ends up with his bow tie shape. Correcting it with boundary warp, moving this slider here. Shows a number of numerous distortions. We'll go back to cylindrical here. When that is in boundary warp you get a squarish aspect ratio width to height. And if I go back to spherical that will have a more panoramic aspect ratio much wider than it is. So, I prefer this one for this particular image. And say, I'll click OK. Now if I had not chosen boundary warp and just chose to fill edges. I get pretty much the same result. In the end. So both of those are options for your processing here. Once I'm satisfied with the result I can click merge. Comes up in as a pano. You can see in the... Window here. And as a DNG file. Double click on it. And there you can see the result we have. Additional corrections and adjustments can be applied to the result in panorama as usual. In this lesson you've learned how to photograph for a panorama merge. Thanks for watching. In the next lesson you'll learn how to shoot and process an HDR panorama. Let's go check it out.

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Course Description

In these lessons, you will understand how to work with panorama images in Lightroom. You will learn how to bring and adjust panorama images for editing, as well as process them with the use of HDR, presets, and other creative methods.

What You'll Learn

Bring and adjust panorama images for editing in Lightroom
Apply adjustments to panorama landscape images
Process HDR panorama landscape images
Use creative methods to process panoramas
Process panoramas using presets

Key Takeaways

The course teaches how to work with panorama images in Lightroom.
Learners apply adjustments to both standard and HDR panorama landscape images.
Panoramas can be processed using HDR, presets, and other creative methods.
The lessons cover bringing in and adjusting panorama images for editing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

It covers how to work with panorama images in Lightroom, including bringing in and adjusting panorama images for editing and processing them with HDR, presets, and other creative methods.

What will I learn to do with panorama images?

You will learn to apply adjustments to panorama landscape images and to apply adjustments to HDR panorama landscape images.

What lessons are included in this course?

The course includes the lessons Working with Panorama, Processing HDR Panorama, Creative Processing with Panoramas, and Processing Using Presets.

What skills does this course relate to?

It relates to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Darkroom, Image Editing, Panorama, Photo Editing, and Photographic Processing.