How to Make a Long Picture
- 1). Mount the camera on a steady tripod at your shooting location. Ideally the tripod should have a level built in so that you can ensure your photos are straight.
- 2). Rotate the tripod to the left of the scene that you want to photograph.
- 3). Take the first picture.
- 4). Rotate the camera slightly to the right and take a second picture. There must be at least a 25 percent overlap of identical material between the pictures for editing.
- 5). Continue rotating the camera and taking pictures until you have captured the entire scene.
- 6). Load the pictures onto your computer, then open them in an image editing program.
- 7). Open a new image file that is slightly higher than the pictures, and as wide as all of them combined.
- 8). Copy the first photo and paste it into the new file. Move it all the way to the left.
- 9). Copy the second photo and paste it into the new file. Move it to the left, overlapping the first. This is where the 25 percent overlap is useful.
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Align the two images based on the matching overlap. - 11
Set the program's eraser to 25 percent with soft edges. - 12
Pass the eraser over the seam several times until the two pictures blend together. If they already line up with no visible seam, you can skip this step. - 13
Continue adding pictures, softening the seams with the eraser. - 14
Use the crop tool to remove anything except for the portion of the panorama that you want. - 15
Save the file in the photo format of your choice.
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