Shooting Pano Portraits & How To Stitch a Panorama in Photoshop | Pano 101, tips and tricks

Because you asked so nicely, here is the how-to for stitching panos, but it also includes shooting tips for panorama portraits, stitching panoramas in Photoshop, my own preferences for processing options, methods and clean up, along with a bit of preview of the photograph used in the tutorial here too.

Using a pano set up of my very own FinnFinn from back in November when we went on our holidays, I hope that this video walks through the must-have elements for photographing panos, along with the method I use for merging panorama frames together in both Lightroom and Photoshop.

Another tip that I totally forgot to mention is that you must not refocus as you are taking your wider shots - turn your lens to manual mode or use back-button focus and do not touch the focus as you are shooting your panorama.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:52 What is a panorama photograph
2:53 RAW frames for stitching into a panorama
4:43 How to stitch a panorama in Lightroom
5:05 How to stitch a panorama in Photoshop
7:43 Advanced: Selective blending of a pano in Photoshop
8:49 Cropping for a 2:1 pano (or wider)
9:38 Finishing touches
10:22 Wrap up!


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