Photo Merge

Photo merge two images to create High FOV. Sometimes, you want to get closer pictures of some objects that are too big to appear in the viewfinder of the camera. So you have to satisfy yourself with a very low resolution pic taken from way back.

Photoshop has a very good feature called Photo merge to counter this problem. This tool lets you merge two pictures of a same object taken in diff angles.

I'll first start by two pictures of this old airplane, taken in the Lucknow Zoo.

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* Open both of the images.

* Now go to File > Automate > Photomerge

Now unless you are a professional photographer or have taken the images in perfect Perspective, Photomerge would not be able to automatically merge the images. So you have to the work manually.

* Drag the two images in the central area.

* Use the Zoom tool (Z) to zoom into the picture. Alt + Click to Zoom out if you wish.

* Use the select Image tool (A). Now drag and align the images in the order you wish them to appear.

This is how it is supposed to look... It will be distorted. Now as you can see the image of the head of the plane is not properly aligned.

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* So you may have to use the rotate tool ( R) to make the merge look better.

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* The picture looks a lot better now. But the ground and rails are not properly aligned. So you will have to click on Perspective radio button on the right.

* Now you can also select Advanced Blending and Cylindrical mapping and click on preview to view the final pic. Click Ok when you are finished.

This is the final merged pic.

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You can even create 360* views using this tool.