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Creating Panoramas with Lightroom

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Overview

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Learn to stitch multiple photos together into dramatic panoramas with Lightroom—and combine Lightroom with Photoshop for even better creative control.

A great panorama is more than the sum of its parts. A panoramic image can showcase landscapes and architecture in a way that a single image just can’t do. Luckily, the process of creating panoramas is easier than ever with Adobe Lightroom. You can combine multiple images into a new file and preserve the flexibility of raw photo editing. Additionally, by combining Lightroom and Photoshop you can get an advanced level of control over the final results. Rich Harrington introduces all these techniques, plus a workflow for creating high dynamic range (HDR) panoramas. Learn how to use the Photo Merge commands in Lightroom Classic CC, change projection methods for different visual results, and automate your workflow to save time. Rich also performs the same tasks in Lightroom CC—the alternative to Lightroom Classic—and integrates Photoshop features such as Content-Aware Fill and third-party filters.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Creating panoramic images with Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic
  • Before watching this course
  • Exercise files
  • Lightroom CC or Lightroom Classic, which should I use?
1. What You Need to Create a Panoramic Photo
  • Shooting strategies for panoramic photos
  • Essential panoramic equipment
  • Making do with what you have
2. Organizing Panoramic Photos in Lightroom Classic
  • Manually sorting after import
  • Automatically stacking based on shoot time
  • Organizing panoramas with collections and stacks
  • Making initial adjustments to correct orientation
3. An Introduction to Panoramic Photomerge
  • How Lightroom is different from Photoshop Photomerge
  • Required metadata and properties in order to merge
  • When should you develop a panoramic image?
  • Starting the panoramic Photomerge process
  • Analyzing the preview image
  • Creating the final merge
  • Correcting lens issues with lens profiles
  • Refining the panoramic image with Boundary Warp
  • Using camera profiles with the profile browser
4. A Raw Panoramic Workflow
  • Organization and naming strategies for raw files
  • Merging raw images in Lightroom Classic
  • Developing the new DNG file
  • Removing ghosts and echoes with the Spot Removal tool
  • Invoking upright to fix perspective issues
  • Modifying the crop after the merge
5. Understanding Projection Methods for Panoramic Images
  • Why use different methods of projection?
  • The auto method
  • The perspective method
  • The cylindrical method
  • The spherical method
6. Creating an HDR Panoramic Photo
  • An overview of the shooting process
  • Merging HDR panoramic images and creating a stack
  • Developing the merged file
  • An advanced HDR example
  • Additional Photoshop post-processing to remove distortion
  • Filling in missing areas in Photoshop
  • Finalizing the photo
7. The Lightroom CC Panoramic Workflow
  • Key differences between Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic for panoramic photographers
  • Importing and organizing your panoramic photos
  • Invoking the Photomerge command
  • Developing the panoramic image in Lightroom CC
  • Advanced strategies to refine a panoramic image in Lightroom CC
  • Additional editing tools
  • The Lightroom CC and Adobe Photoshop handoff
8. Combine Lightroom with Photoshop for Panoramic Photos
  • The Creative Cloud connection
  • Using the Adaptive Wide Angle command
  • Using Content-Aware Fill to fill in missing areas
  • Advanced healing and cloning in Photoshop to remove ghosts and echoes
  • Invoking Camera Raw as a filter
  • Third-party filters to enhance panoramic photos: Luminar
  • Third-party filters to enhance panoramic photos: Perfectly Clear
  • Sending the image back to your Lightroom Catalog
Conclusion
  • Conclusion

Taught by

Richard Harrington

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