Merging Photos Help

[LSCSN.com]

Okay I have a string of 13 photos that I have in a row and I'm wanting to merge them together so that you don't see the harsh verticle lines where the photos meet. How would I go about do this?

[RKEnnis]

The Photoshop ""photomerge" feature works great for this. I normally just let it auto align.

I've done quite a few panoramas this way.

[kenw]

and to add: there are several photomerge programs that work pretty well. The nikon program that likely came with your camera may work well, the canon program reportedly does.

[LSCSN.com]

I'm not trying to make a "true" panorama. These are 13 different pics of my son playing baseball and I'm simply trying to merge them together without the harsh verticle lines. Will these programs work for this since it's not the same subject matter of a single mountain or landscape?

By the way I don't have photoshop, so I'm out of luck there.

[venchka]

Side note: How do you propose to print 13 photos in a row? That will be one very long very narrow photo.

When you get the answer, let me know. I have 3 frames I would like to do the same thing with. Photoshop can't align them to my sastifaction.

Good luck!

[J Eddington]

Do you mean like this?

[T. Adam Martin]

If you're going to run them together, I'd suggest the following:

[1] Make each photo overlap the next;
[2] Add a Layer Mask to each photo;
[3] Choose a feathering brush, set opacity to 30%;
[4] Paint over the seams to make them more translucent.

[venchka]

Sure Janice. I need help putting my photos like that together.

Can you spell D I V O R C E?

[LSCSN.com]

Wayne this project is simply part of a larger project I'm working on. I'm designing a poster for my son, who played baseball and this section is simply going to be part of a larger 20x30 poster of him.

Janice that is somewhat of the look I'm going for except without the brown border. I'm simply wanting to merge a row of photos together so that each one "blends" in with the next without the harsh edges.

I used the feathering technique, but what I got was what Janice posted in that it looked like I had a bunch of feathered photos put together with borders around them, so the finished product wasn't exactly what I was going for. I have seen images merged together before where they simply looked like two photos that were blended. There was no indication of a seem of any sort.

LSCSN.com added 2 Minutes and 3 Seconds later...Double Post Merged Below

Here's a real quick example of what I'm talking about.

http://www.acclaimimages.com/_galler...3110-0139.html

[T. Adam Martin]

Jason:

Your example was created using layer masking. It's going to be the best solution for what you want to do.

[J Eddington]

Originally Posted by venchka

Sure Janice. I need help putting my photos like that together.

Can you spell D I V O R C E?

Sorry, that was one I had done for her. I didn't have any landscapes or ball players!

[venchka]

Search here for Janice's "throw my photos on the table" photos. It might not work for 13, but's cool.

[Cajungaltx]

okay - do you mean like this?

I increased the canvas size to about what I wanted it.
Opened up the photos in CS4, dragged them into the canvas size increased file, and then used layer masks to put them together and get rid of the harsh lines by painting/hiding at a mixed opacity brush.

Not a perfect attempt.... I don't have many photos where the background stays consistant... lol... this one was as close as I could get it.

[T. Adam Martin]

Katy:

That's a great example. To take it one step further, after you layer mask and take out the seams, I'd flatten the image and then use the clone stamp tool to take out some of the smudging.

Albeit, the clone stamp will work optimally on a background like Katy's.

[LSCSN.com]

Donna yes that's what I'm looking to do. My photos however will have varying backgrounds since they are from different games and different times of the day/night. But that is the look I'm going for here.