CS5 Photomerge

When i try to stitch photos together in cs5 the progress bar completes
& i see the stiched panorama for approx 1 second then it disappears. Im using xp professional 32X. latest version 12.04 photoshop. Can anyone help?

Do you see the same thing after you try the following?
Edit - Preferences - Performance.
Uncheck [ ] Enable OpenGL Drawing.
Close and restart Photoshop.
If so, you need to update your display driver. Go to the web site of the maker of your video card, find the driver that matches your hardware and operating system, and install the latest. Don't forget to re-enable OpenGL after the update, so you can get back the OpenGL-specific features of Photoshop.
-Noel

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CS5 Photomerge - incorrect reposition/alignment

Hello,
Im an architecture student using educational version of CS5, and recently I've been having an issue(?) with the photomerge tool.
A little background to what Im trying to do: Im working on a project that involves taking screen-shots of a 6 square miles area from Google Earth and combining/tiling them to obtain a bigger, more detailed map. I have the Google Earth set so that it shows only the satelite view of the ground below, with all the ground effects turned off (simplified and flattened ground) and from the same altitude/zoom level.
When done, I had exactely 120 screen-shots, which I ran through photomerge set at reposition only option. At first, PS loaded all shots and started aligning them, but would take forever to complete. I tried tiling groups of 12 shots at a time then combining the results, and that worked great. No problems here.
I had to relocate my 6 sq mi area to a different place and redo it all over. This time photomerge would still work (still grouping shots), but it would not position them correctly; meaning they would be on the bottom instead on the top. I tried overlaping the shots more and ended up with a total of 144 files, but with same results. Most of the screen-shots would be positioned correctly, but sometimes photomerge would divide the map in two with a blank strip of nothing. Sometimes the map would be 98% correct, with shots positioned, aligned, and blended great, except for a last row of shots that would be detached from the rest of the map.
What am I doing wrong?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

Thank you for your reply.
Well, all of the 144 screen-shots taken have the "Google Earth" and two other marks on them, but I made sure the shots overlap each other enough so that PS have room to work on them.
I made a couple attempts on the same set of shots (with marks on all of them) and most of the time photomerge tool won't have any problems with correctly alignining and blending them. There were a few instances where a row or a column, depending on how do I 'stich' the individual shots, would be correctly aligned within its row/column, but wont align with the rest of the shots.

CS5 Photomerge hanging when using many files

Hello,
I have managed to work around the issue, but it's annoying nonetheless.
The basic problem is that I've started creating very wide and tall Bokeh Panoramas or 'The Brenzier Method' http://www.ryanbrenizer.com/category/brenizer-method/
From Lightroom I select the images I want and 'merge to panorama in PS'. When I use say 2 - 30 images it's fine. However when I use say 160 (ridiculous I know) it will hang when merging the files, processor usage stays on 13%, but the progress dialogue bar doesn't animate. I tried it through photomerge and 'align all layers' from the edit menu. I reduced this ridiculous amount to 60 and if I chose the 'vignette removal' option on the photomerge dialogue it will hang on this process after starting to create the panorama. If I don't do the vignette, it will create the panorama.
I know that it will depend upon the complexity of the merge, it's just annoying that it would fail whereas Microsoft ICE will complete the panorama without fail, it just may be of a lesser accuracy due to parallax.
Other than using less images and attempting to overlap correctly, is there much else that can be done?
I'm using an up to date version of CS5 64bit windows. running on a 16gb Core i7 2600k. The merged final image occupies 13gig of ram. I have the scratch disc on a spare 2tb drive with about 1.5 tb free.
Paul

Mr_Fujisawa, I just wanted to come back on here and thank you for opening my mind to the "Brenizer Method", which I had not heard of before. I've been experimenting with it today and enjoying the results! Up to now I put effort into getting everything in focus all across my panos, which are generally landscapes. It didn't dawn on me to use stitching on subjects up close.
-Noel

Photoshop cs5 photomerge crash

i have photoshop cs5(x64 & x32) install onto my asus n82j, which runs on win7 64bit, i5-520m, geforce gt 335m (vram 1gb), 4gb ram, 34gb of free space on my c drive. I can use everything without a problem except photomerge, whenever i click Automate>Photomerge, photoshop stops working and crash.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
Application Name:    Photoshop.exe
Application Version:    12.0.3.0
Application Timestamp:    4d035d7d
Fault Module Name:    Photoshop.exe
Fault Module Version:    12.0.3.0
Fault Module Timestamp:    4d035d7d
Exception Code:    c0000005
Exception Offset:    0000000000c2e542
OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID:    1033
Additional Information 1:    6303
Additional Information 2:    63039110a3647312e6581ff0da26e473
Additional Information 3:    a9f7
Additional Information 4:    a9f77be65ef178706cc2f196f12e4ffc

Fair enough. Something's changed on your system, then.
Things that can cause Photoshop to fail:
Newly installed 3rd party plug-in, but which is incompatible or has a problem.
Newly installed font.
Newly installed driver (e.g., for the display, by Windows Update).
Corrupted preferences.
You should know if you installed a plug-in or font, and if a driver update caused the problem you can usually get a better driver from the web site of the maker of your display adapter (video card).
To reset Photoshop's preferences to defaults, you can press and hold Control-Shift-Alt immediately after starting Photoshop from its menu entry or shortcut. You have to be quick. Keep in mind you'll have to reconfigure a lot of things again if you've changed them from defaults.
-Noel

CS5 Photomerge crashes

I'm using Windows 7, with 12GB's of RAM. Had same issue on my Vista, though my RAM was failing, and I thought that may have been the issue. 7 laptop is brand new, and new install of CS5. Photomerge goes through the motions, you see the photos it's working on in the right window, and then they all disappear, and there's no final photo.
If Adobe won't issue a fix/repair, is there something else I can do to attain the same results?

Please post in the Photoshop forum. This forum is for suite specific
issue only.

CS5 Photomerge plug in Ul

I do large panoramics (up to 8 gigs with up to 100 interior photographs). With CS4 and Photomerge interactive I was often able to do good images. Automatic would usually not work. There were usually misalignments. Now with CS5 Adobe took away the interactive function but now have a plug in Ul that only works in 32 bit. So there was really no good reason to get CS5 Photoshop when in Photomerge interactive I cannot use 64 bit and access all the power inherent in it. What is the point of only having automatic features for Photomerge? I hope they add a Ul plug-in soon BUT in 64 bit.

It rings the bell - I think we saw something to this effect a while ago, but I cannot recall what we did to make it go away - there were way too many CS5 specific issues we had to deal with lately. Does the automation throw an exception into PS or return a failure code? Also posting your modified listener may help...

CS5 Photomerge - how to avoid those strange jig-saw lines in the sky

Here is one image out of 4
that I am merging [just an example of one of many I do]
you will note that the sky area to the left of the rainbow is clear and normal.
When using Photomerge direct from bridge and on RAW files regardless of resolution I am getting nasty and annoying lines and areas of uneven-ness that are too hard to fix by retouching as they are widespread and large. They usually appear in smooth detail-less areas like skies and really stand out if you want to darken them. They are NOT anything to do with the joins of the images and they appear regardless of how many images you are merging. They appear regardles of which style - ie 'auto', 'reposition', 'cylinder' etc one chooses in the merge panel. As I am trying to sell large-scale and perfect panoramic prints for the wall, the only way I can avoid them is to keep these areas light so they don't show up - that's not what I want! The next pic shows an example - I have saturated to make it clear to see.
Regards Mal

Are you stitching 16 bits/channel files? I would guess you're using 8 bit. Posterization can be a problem with 8 bit.
Try 16 bit. I've done a lot of Photomerges of 16 bit files and I don't see what you're showing.
-Noel

Photoshop CS5 photomerge with dng files crashes

hello and greetings from Finland,
I have constant problems with photomerge tool when using dng files converted from Nikon´s nef files. Photomerge loads all pictures, normally 4-6, starts to align them etc. process seemst to be running just fine. Just before finished panorama picture should appear to screen, photoshop returns to default state. With original nef files, everything works just fine. This happens only with dng files. I´m using iMac (i5 processor with 12 GB RAM, cache for Photoshop in separate HD etc.)
So far I have tried following tricks for this problem; several resets for Photoshop settings file and reboot after that. Uninstalled and reinstalled whole Ps twice. Used two different, formatted memory cards in camera (Nikon D700).
After those, no help. Maybe second reinstall gave some relief for this, dng files worked fine couple of times, but now I have that same error again and I´m running out of ideas what to do next. And once again, I have this problem only with dng´s.
Any similar experiences? Did you managed to get things work again? How?

I don't mean to break your rocks, Chris, but try to keep some perspective... A component of Photoshop exiting abnormally (and delivering no results) is a crash to any user who doesn't have a deep insight as to how it's implemented. Maybe it's not as serious as a "whole Photoshop crash with loss of data", but it's not an unreasonable interpretation.
"Not finishing" could be your internal definition of it, and I might even agree with your terminology if it just popped up a message saying "The price of tea in China has risen too high - Photomerge must exit", but just quitting without any message is a crash by any reasonable definition.
Regardless of what Adobe may say, rillumarei, I personally have come to believe Camera Raw leaves some corruption of memory somewhere as I've found any editing session after a Camera Raw run seems a little more likely to fail than one where a PSD or other "normal" image format is opened (without Camera Raw).
-Noel

Can the photomerge plugin for the interactive layout for CS4

I was using the photomerge plugin for the interactive layout light box in CS5. Now that I have migrated onto CC 2014, will that plugin still work for CC 2014?

CS4 is an End of life product.
Please refer to:
John Nack on Adobe : Feedback, please: Photomerge in Photoshop
CS5 Photomerge vs CS4
Moving to Photoshop.
Regards
Rajshree

ACR settings prior to merging

I've recently started to use CS5 Photomerge for panoramas, focus stacking and some HDR. I'm interested in learning the recommend ACR workflow prior to doing the photomerge. I shoot with the camera (5DII) set to UniWB to assure reliable histograms as I expose to the right. My searches have led me to the following ACR workflow and settings:
- Reset CR defaults to 0 for Recovery, Fill Light, Blacks, Brightness, Contrast, Sharpening amount, Noise Reduction and a linear tone curve.
- From Bridge open all images to be merged in CR. Select All.
- Set White Balance as desired. (Since the camera is set to UniWB when I open the image in ACR, Temp and Tint are at the minimum.)
- Set Exposure as desired and 'Done'.
- At this point, from the bridge: Tools>Photoshop>Photomerge or Merge to HDR Pro. Save the merged file as TIFF.
- I then use ACR controls on this file (and later CS5 as/if needed).
Questions: Is this the recommended workflow prior to merge? Is the TIFF file I've saved after the merge a "scene referred" file?

Hello d2inaa
Congratulations on your new Mac!
Befor you migrate anything from the G-4 to the Intel Mac have a look at Kappy's Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs it will save you alot of trouble.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350
Dennis

What would cause CS5 to stop working whenever I select Photomerge ?

Does any one know why CS5 would stop working everytime I select Photomerge ?

Further interest. If I disable the Radeon Driver and open PS Photomerge works - so the graphics card - or driver - is immediately suspect. However if I thhen close PS and enable the graphics driver then reopen PS - Photomerge still works !!
BUT next time I open PS, it crashes as soon as I open an image - then when I reopen it, it works OK but crashes when I launch Photomerge.
I seriously think it is something weird going on between the computer and the viedo card that somehow PS is involved in. I guess I'll just leave the question here until some genius pops up with the answer.
In the meantime, I'll just disable the graphics card whenever I want to do a photomerge - whoch is frequently at the moment because I'm playing with focus stacking

PS CS5 (x64, x32), Windows 7 (x64) - Photomerge crahes PS

Hi!
I use PS CS5 x64 to merge some pics for a panorama with Photomerge, which worked just fine - for awhile. Nowadays whenever I try to use Photomerge crashes PS. There is a note the Event Manager of Windows x64 Ultimate (german):
name of crashing application: Photoshop.exe, Version: 12.0.3.0, time stamp: 0x4d035d7d
name of crashing module: Photoshop.exe, Version: 12.0.3.0, time stamp: 0x4d035d7d
exception code: 0xc0000005
failure offset: 0x0000000000c2e542
ID of crahing process: 0x1a14
startup time of crashing application: 0x01cbd7384661dcca
path to crashing application: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64
Bit)\Photoshop.exe
path to crashing module: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64
Bit)\Photoshop.exe
report ID: 8d080f09-432b-11e0-a6ac-70f3955024ec
The crash happens reproducible any time no matter if I first load pictures (RAW or JPG or else) and then start Photomerge or try loading Photomerge first. PS just crashes without any comment. This happens in the PS CS5 x86, too. Lens correction or HDR processing are working good. No other problem in PS, except PM.
I tried to reset my preferences (CRTL + ALT + SHIFT while starting) without any cure.
Reinstalled PS CS5 (x64 and x32) without any change.
My Windows 7 Ultimate has all the updates (SP1 now) and so do all the apps of my Master Collection CS5 have. My computer has an i5 and 16 GB DDR3 RAM.
Funny how: I've PS CS5 (x32) installed in a virtual XP client that does the merge perfectly, but awfully slow.
What else can I do to make it work?
Is there some other app that makes a panaorama out of RAW data in the meantime?
Thanks 4 help!
DB

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dannybrown2011 wrote:
Upgrading to the newest nVidia driver for that card - no chance.
Please send nVidia criticism for this, and maybe, just maybe if enough people do they'll put some extra effort into improving their quality. There is no excuse for breaking things that once worked, especially when OpenGL test programs exist. Their focus is clearly on something besides quality (maybe releasing quickly to satisfy gamers, I don't know).
I swore off nVidia some time ago myself because of their POOR (putting it mildly) software support for released hardware.
-Noel

Photomerge CS5 doesn't work

Just try the Photoshop CS5 Trial after working with the CS3 ver.
When I try to merge images with the photomerge workflow, it seems that everything working just fine, but after the processing bar shows that the photomerge finished - nothings happen.
The process just ends & there is no panorama, only the same 3 source images I used.
Any suggestions ?

NoCoolNamesLeft wrote:
Anyone who shoot panoramas on a regular basis (at least without a tripod) have experienced flaws in the stitching, meaning blurry and unaligned segments.
That's odd, because I do personally shoot a lot of panos (never using a tripod) and I just don't experience those flaws. I wonder if differences in subject material, workflow, or even resource shortages could cause the software to fail in minor ways and produce less than perfect results. I've just not had the kinds of problem with the thing you describe, and I'm fairly critical about my results.
Just as a challenging example, late last year I took photos from all around the observation tower at Clingman's Dome in Smoky Mountains National Park. I wasn't even standing in the same place for each shot, and every shot was handheld - 14 in all, with maybe 1/3 overlap. Camera and lens: Canon EOS-40D at ISO 100, 1/125 second, Canon 28-135 zoom at 28mm, f/7.1.
Photoshop did a remarkable job making a nearly all the way around pano out of these shots just now.
This is the observation deck from which I shot the photos:
Here's a small version of one of the photos:
The full resolution result, right out of Photoshop (just flattened, downsized to 30000 pixels width, and saved as JPEG), can be found at the link below (warning, large file). I'm having trouble finding any defects such as those you describe in it, which is a bit surprising since some of the same treetops should have overlapped different parts of the distant scenery because of my moving between shots.
http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/ClingmansDomeRawPano.jpg
Here's the detail of the workflow I used:
1. Open all CR2 images in Camera Raw.
2. Select All images, make color temperature identical, boost Fill Light a little to lighten shadows.
3. Set to convert to upsampled 6144 x 4096 resolution, sRGB, 16 bits/channel.
4. [Save Images] as .psd files in folder C:\TEMP\Pano, which I use for staging panoramas.
5. Click [Done] to get out of Camera Raw.
6. File - Automate Photomerge. Select all 17 files, and choose settings as shown below.
7. [ OK ] to run Photomerge.
8. Layer - Flatten, downsize to 30000 pixels to enable saving as JPEG.
9. Save the result, which can be seen at the link above.
-Noel

Photomerge CS5 not as smooth as CS3?

I am having problems with Photomerge in CS5 EX. I am creating a pano with 9 jpg images using auto align. When PS has merged the images I can see all of the transitions. Hard lines almost no blending. I took the same photos and opened them in CS3 and they blended nicely. Almost no work needed to be done other than crop.
Back to CS5>automate>photomerge>blend images together >OK
Bad results again. This time parts of image are not even aligned. Boat cut in half etc. Too much work even for the spot healing brush. Content aware only works in very small areas.
Thank you for your help
Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0 (12.0x20100407 [20100407.r.1103 2010/04/07:14:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) x32
Operating System: Windows Vista 32-bit
Version: 6.0 Service Pack 2
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:15, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2400 MHz
Built-in memory: 3070 MB
Free memory: 591 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 1632 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 71 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
3 GB RAM

Could be that part of CS5 is now sitting on a bad cluster on your hard drive.
Your Video Card or CPU fan is spinning slow or has dust bunnies blocking cool air.
Go into Vista's Event Viewer. A hard crash will be listed in there. Gather the information and post it here. Maybe one of us can figure it out.
Go to this website and use this MS fix it. It is free and fixes a lot of issues with XP and Vista.
http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal

"Why would Photomerge Automatically Reduce Merged Images in CS5"

Hello,
     Man am I hoping that someone out there can help me with something thats I've been racking my brains over trying to figure out for a week now...
     I resently went to New York... I took several, multiple images, from different locations surrounding the city with plans on taking each set and making multiple panoramas from each of the locations that I shot from.
     For the most part "Everything" has been working out just fine. Except for a few images that I didn't apparently have enough "Overlap" for the "Reposition" to do its thing in Photomerge. I read within these forum pages that it requires about 40% of an overlap in order for Photomerge to see what its looking at. I also read that the "PhotomergeUI" plugin was available so that I could get the "Interactive Layout" back into CS5. I used it in the few instances that I needed to, with no apparent problems that was until I attempted to merge panels that I had merged out of 3 or 4 individual images. I had to use the Interactive Layout in order to merge the 2 panels that I had configured and as it was going through it merging process I watched the lower left status bar go from, for example,.. 18.2 inches - 18.6 inches for each of the 2 panels I was attempting to merge. When the process was completed, the height had gone from the 18.+ inch height, down to 9.2 inch height. Basically cutting my image size by half !
     I tried the whole process over again with a different set of images that I had taken... The set consisted of 12 images with a Height of 4288 pixels (portrait). I managed to get 9 of the 12 images merged, keeping the image in the 4000 - 4200 pixels in height... (i don't have a pano head so my camera was leveled by eye)   I then merged the remaining 3 together with no problem... When I went to merge the 3-panel merge with the 9-panel merge the Merge Process did the same thing... I watched the status bar go from 4000 - 4200 for the heights of the 2 panels, down to 2167 pixels once merged!
     I then tried the whole process over again, doing 2 panels of 6 images... when I got to the last set of 6, my height, again, dropped by half once merged... So I tried something to see what would happen. I took the remaining panel of 6 that I merged with no alteration to their height... and reduced them to match the height of the set that had been automatically reduced because of the merge.... I then attempted to merge the 2 panels together, and again, the final merge had the height reduced... this time down to a whopping 2.4 Inches!   From 18 inches in height, down to 2 inches in height, and not once did I ever go near anything that had to do with scale or image height...
Can someone Please tell me what going on...?   I once did a panoramic in CS4 consisting of " 2 - Rows of 32 Portrait Images ", one row on top of the other... The final panoramic was of a 15 mile stretch of New York that I took 3 years ago... 64 images in total and I never had anything like this happening when it did it... It took me a while, but I never had any issues with Height and therefore overall size being altered as a result of a Photomerge...?...?
I look forward to hearing some insight...
ToxicImagery....

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