{"id":11327,"date":"2006-12-22T21:42:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/props-for-auto-alignblend-in-cs3.html"},"modified":"2006-12-22T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T21:42:01","slug":"props_for_auto_alignblend_in_cs3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/22\/props_for_auto_alignblend_in_cs3\/","title":{"rendered":"Props for Auto-Align\/Blend in CS3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panorama photographer Hans Nyberg has posted an overview<\/a> comparing the new Photoshop Auto-Align Layers<\/a>\/Auto-Blend Layers functionality to other tools. "This is a real ‘Christmas Gift’ to us panorama photographers," he writes.  "Incredibly fast and with very intelligent blending which outperforms all the blenders we have used until now."<\/p>\n

Regarding the Load Files Into Stack script<\/a> I posted earlier this week, I forgot to point out that choosing File->Automate-> Photomerge does the same process in one shot.  Engineer John Peterson writes,<\/p>\n

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Now, if you want to click ‘n drag ‘n re-arrange, the bottom left side of the Photomerge file section dialog has an "interactive" option for the familiar Photomerge interactive dialog. But really, the new alignment algorithm is generally good enough that you’ll rarely need it.<\/p>\n

And about the "Advanced Blending" checkbox? If it’s on (the default) you’ll get the seamless blending and exposure matching Edit > Auto-blend does. If it’s off, you’ll get simple rectangular blend masks (that you can easily modify or remove) and pixels left as-is, ready to re-touch by hand if you so choose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also, engineer Jeff Chien would like to point out that after running Auto-Blend Layers you may observe some visible seams when zoomed way out, but that these are just a redraw artifact; i.e. at 100% magnification they disappear. <\/p>\n

On related notes: <\/p>\n