…look what Photoshop can do — all by itself — to a handful of photos.
I went to the Rose Garden at the Woodland Park Zoo last weekend with the vague idea that if I took a sequence of pictures — making sure that they overlapped each other — that Photoshop could assemble them into one scene. How Photoshop would do this, I hadn’t a clue. I just thought I’d read about it somewhere, and I wanted to try it.
So I took some pictures…visually lining things up as best I could (no tripod was involved), and went home thinking: this is going to take me hours to figure out. I sat down at the computer, downloaded the photos, made one quick trip to the Photoshop Help menu, and 2 minutes later (I’m not kidding) I had a seamless panoramic shot of the Rose Garden. Photoshop is frickin’ amazing.
P.S. To make a panoramic image in Photoshop CS4, go to File>Automate>Photomerge. Select your source files (I used 5 different photos), choose your layout (I used Spherical), click OK, and Photoshop does the rest.