HDR panorama

thequeenscheese

Senior Member
Is there a way in Lightroom/Photoshop to automatically merge the hdr brackets and the panorama at the same time? for example if i have a 10 shot panorama with 3 bracketed shots for each of the 10 panno shots merging the final image is a tedious and slow process.
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
No you cannot.

You've got 2 basic problems to overcome here.

1. Stitching 10 images together 3 times and having all of them stitch identically.
2. Combining 3 HDR images 10 times and having them all resolve similarly so there are no color changes when stitched.

I would posit that #2 is the more difficult. My recommendation would be to create 3 panoramas first (I like how Lr does them), then bring them into Ps as Layers in a single image and use the Auto Align Layers function. Save each layer as a separate file (TIFF), and then use those new aligned files as input into the HDR process.

The 3 pano files are going to be big so you can consider reducing the working size before exporting if you're worried about time.
 
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thequeenscheese

Senior Member
No you cannot.

You've got 2 basic problems to overcome here.

1. Stitching 10 images together 3 times and having all of them stitch identically.
2. Combining 3 HDR images 10 times and having them all resolve similarly so there are no color changes when stitched.

I would posit that #2 is the more difficult. My recommendation would be to create 3 panoramas first (I like how Lr does them), then bring them into Ps as Layers in a single image and use the Auto Align Layers function. Save each layer as a separate file (TIFF), and then use those new aligned files as input into the HDR process.

The 3 pano files are going to be big so you can consider reducing the working size before exporting if you're worried about time.

Yeah whichever way around, i was just wondering if there is a plugin or an option to be able to do all the work automatically in Lr or Ps..


Is autopano free?
 
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