Create a Panoramic Photo in Adobe Photoshop

Steps into creating a panoramic photo using Adobe Photoshop:

The purpose of this article is to show you the way I followed to create my first panoramic photo. Do not expect to find a complicated technique – all it is done in several simple steps. What I did was just to stitch two pictures together… and the result came out quite nice. I will explain each step as we go on:

For this tutorial, we’re going to use Adobe Photoshop and we’ll load in the pictures that are going to be stitched together. You can simply use drag & drop from Explorer into the Photoshop work area, it is the fastest way.

Second step: File menu -> Automate -> Photomerge… This will create you a rough preview of what is going to be your panoramic photo. Eventually, the corners will look distorted, in one of the merged pictures. And there is a quick way to get that fixed as well.

The tool used is Vanishing Point which you can find in the Filter menu. You can use it to get rid of the distorted corners that (eventually) appear as a result of photo merging.

If your background needs to be constructed for different reasons (for instance you shot the two shots at different angles in the vertical plan), there is a one more tool which is able to do it. It is called Clone stamp tool, and you can access it from the toolbar in the Essentials display mode, or simpler, by pressing S on your keyboard. It will be able to re-create background, corners, cracks, whatever you might need in order to cover all the black areas. Remember you will need a pattern which needs to be replicated for that.

Once you’re done with this, you can say you have a panoramic photo. You’ve successfully managed to put together two pictures and make it look like one shot. The next steps on are totally up to you. You have now “one” picture, feel free to play with it as much as you want! 

Hope you’ll find this tutorial helpful when creating your own panoramic photos. Photoshop will help you the same way it helped me. And the good part is that you can do it without learning tons of stuff. Enjoy!