{"id":11323,"date":"2006-12-20T22:38:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/handy-new-script-for-photoshop-cs3.html"},"modified":"2006-12-20T22:38:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:38:58","slug":"handy_new_script_for_photoshop_cs3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/handy_new_script_for_photoshop_cs3\/","title":{"rendered":"Handy new script for Photoshop CS3"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now you’ve probably seen how the Photoshop CS3 beta’s Auto-Align Layers command can snap images together.  If not, check out my 90-second overview<\/a>, or this somewhat more in-depth version <\/a>from Russell Brown.  <\/p>\n

The command relies on selecting multiple layers to align, so it’s handy to suck multiple images into Photoshop & stack them up as layers in a PSD file.  To accomplish that easily, we created a Load Files Into Stack<\/strong> script, but time didn’t permit it to get into the beta.  So, if you’re interested in pulling in multiple files as layers, you can grab the script here<\/a> (zipped to avoid any server weirdness).  Unzip the file and stick it into the "Adobe Photoshop CS3\/Presets\/Scripts" folder to make it appear under File->Scripts when you launch Photoshop, or just browse to it via File->Scripts->Browse.<\/p>\n

To try it yourself, do the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Grab this set of four images<\/a> and unzip it.<\/li>\n
  2. From within Photoshop, select File->Scripts->Load Files into Stack, then load up the four images.<\/li>\n
  3. Leave the alignment & Smart Object options unchecked, then hit OK.<\/li>\n
  4. Choose Select->All Layers, then choose Edit->Auto-Align Layers.<\/li>\n
  5. Click the Cylindrical option, then hit OK.  You should wind up with an image like this<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. So, okay, Photoshop has done a reasonable job aligning and warping the layers, but obvious color and alignment problems remain. To address these, now choose Edit->Auto-Blend Layers.  You’ll wind up with an image like this<\/a>–much more nicely stitched together.<\/li>\n
  7. Notice that the Auto-Blend command still leaves your layers as layers, but they now have layer masks that you can further tweak by hand if you’d like.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The upshot is that the Load Files Into Stack script sets you up nicely for all kinds of alignment & blending tasks, or for any work that requires multiple files to be pulled into a single layered document. <\/p>\n

    On a marginally related note, a customer on the Labs forum was asking about getting a native version of Photoshop’s JPEG 2000 plug-in, which isn’t installed by default.  So, here you go<\/a> (Mac and Windows bundled into one ZIP, since they’re small). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By now you’ve probably seen how the Photoshop CS3 beta’s Auto-Align Layers command can snap images together.  If not, check out my 90-second overview, or this somewhat more in-depth version from Russell Brown.  The command relies on selecting multiple layers to align, so it’s handy to suck multiple images into Photoshop & stack them up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}