![]() ![]() There are, however, cases where the Perspective Projection is the only way to go, such as when shooting vertical architecture panoramas. It does a good job of stitching the building, but everything around the building seems to tilt towards it. Take a look at the same panorama in Perspective Projection: The Perspective Projection tries to keep straight lines straight, but if you have a panorama like the above, it might not work very well due to excessive stretching, especially towards the edges of the frame. For wide horizontal architecture panoramas, it can be problematic to use, since it might bend lines at the edges of the frame, especially when shooting at shorter focal lengths. Perspective Projection: this one is typically best to use for architecture photography and specifically when stitching vertical panoramas.I would not recommend using Cylindrical Projection for landscape images, since it might stretch the landscape, making it look very unnatural. Take a look at how it stretches and deforms the building from the same set of panoramic images: The dome looks over-stretched and it does not represent reality. It can work well for wide panoramas, but you have to be careful when using it, as it can significantly deform your subjects since it will try to keep vertical lines straight. Cylindrical Projection: this one transforms images as if they were mapped to the inside of a cylinder.Take a look at the panorama of the Dome of the Rock, which I photographed hand-held in Jerusalem: The resulting image is a bit warped, but it looks pretty natural, close to what one would see at the same distance. When shooting close subjects, the spherical warp typically produces the most natural result without stretching anything. Works great for wide and multi-row panoramas. Spherical Projection: the default projection option, which transforms images as if they were mapped to the inside of a sphere.To launch the tool, select the images you want to stitch, then right-click on them and go to “Photo Merge” -> “Panorama…” or go to “Photo” -> “Photo Merge” -> “Panorama…” in Lightroom menu (you can also use the “CTRL + M” / “CMD + M” on Mac shortcut to launch the tool): We will be obviously focusing on the panorama feature specifically. Lightroom’s built-in tool for merging multiple images is called “Photo Merge” and it has two available functions – to create HDR images and to stitch panoramas. As explained above, you don’t need to edit images, since the resulting image will be a RAW DNG file that you can post-process after the stitching is complete. Start off by selecting images you want to stitch to a panorama. With a powerful machine, I can even stitch high-resolution multi-row panoramas in Lightroom, and most of the time, it does a pretty good job with the stitching process. And the fact that the resulting panorama is a DNG file means that I no longer have to worry about making any post-processing adjustments to images before I merge them – I can stitch a panorama with newly imported RAW images and if the panorama is worth working on, all the sliders and editing tools within Lightroom are available to use, unlike flat JPEG or TIFF files that cannot be edited with the same flexibility within Lightroom in the future. While I love the flexibility PTGui provides and still use it occasionally for complex panoramas, I found Lightroom’s Panorama Merge tool to be good enough for most panoramas I create today. ![]() However, once Adobe implemented the Panorama merging capability right into Lightroom, many photographers, including myself, started switching away from PTGui to Lightroom for two main reasons – simplicity and ability to merge panoramas to DNG files. Without a doubt, PTGui is a very powerful tool and it is still used by many professionals today to stitch complex multi-row panoramas and it even has the built-in capability to stitch HDR panoramas. In the past, many of us who work on creating panoramas used to rely on third-party tools such as PTGui, since the only other alternative was Photoshop, which did not do a very good job with stitching panoramas, especially in its earlier versions. The Power of Merging Panoramas in Lightroom In this tutorial, we will only be focusing on the actual process of stitching images in Lightroom. And if you are wondering why you should try making panoramas, you should check out Spencer’s article on The Hidden Benefits of Panorama Photography. If you are new to panorama photography, the best place to start is by reading our Panoramic Photography Tutorial, where we go over many of the basics. There are many factors one needs to consider when shooting panoramas, such as camera-to-subject distance, focal length, finding the no-parallax point, image overlap, etc. Dome of the Rock, Panorama Stitched in Lightroom ![]()
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