LR 2 Merge to Panorama in Photoshop fails at last moment

On both a Mac Pro and my (aging) Macbook Pro, I select several images in LR 2.5, right-click, choose Edit in>Merge to Panorama in Photoshop. Photoshop CS4 (11.0.1) launches, presents options (I choose Auto, sometimes with vignette mitigation, most without), and hit Enter.
Photoshop creates layers, successfully aligns layers, which I notice if I don't blink. Then the doc evaporates. Literally disappears. Same if I push the images (all DNGs) from Bridge. Same if I first export from LR as downsampled TIFFs at 8-bit/channel and push those from LR. same whether LR is launched in 32 or 64 bit mode. Killed prefs, repaired permissions, restarted box. Saved or unsaved metadata on files in LR.
Even with only LR and Photoshop running, 3GB ram on the MBP, tons on the Pro, OS 10.5.8. same result. Success if I Edit in>Open as Layers in Photoshop then use the more manual Edit>Auto Align then Auto Blend. It's something about the handoff.
read lots of variations of this issue in many forums but no solutions. Would be nice to have a real solution rather than the workaround above as I'm demonstrating this feature to many folks tomorrow.
thanks,
SL

Yes it is that simple. Just do a google search for Lightroom and Photoshop preference file locations and you should find them. The next time you start the programs, they will rebuild them. Of course, you'll have to re-enter any custom preference settings you've used. Good luck. Of course, when you think you've located them. Just rename them and move them into another folder first. That way, if you've picked the wrong file, you can easily move it back. Once things are working, you can just delete them.
BTW, this is a good troubleshooting tool for any mac applications that are acting wonky. Just delete that preference file, and more often than not, the problem will be fixed.

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Photoshop is already open.
I'm trying to merge the images.
I've used the pull down under Photo edit in..merge to panorama in photoshop
hundreds of times!
Now suddenly, with nothing different that I can tell,it doesn't work.
Nothing happens.
Sometimes the photoshop window comes up but usually nothing.
What's wrong?

beverlyb - same issue (after trying the CS6 30 day trial on my machine with CS5). Interesting that it's an issue on Mac as well (I use win8.1). I had an Adobe engineer "take over" my PC and he/she was unable to fix it... Ugh! Really the main thing I use photoshop for. Can you do it manually (under File > automation > photomerge I think)?

PC windows 7 lightroom 5.5 Photoshop CC 2014. When editing pictures 'edit in' merge to panorama in photoshop CC 2014 photoshop opens but none of the photos open up to makes panorama

PC windows 7 lightroom 5.5 Photoshop CC 2014. When editing pictures 'edit in' merge to panorama in photoshop CC 2014, photoshop opens but none of the photos open up to makes panorama. Can anyone help? It used to work with Photoshop CC and lightroom 5.4

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When I had LR4, I could Edit in > Merge to Panorama in PS and it would take the edited RAW files and merge them. Now in LR5 it seems to be taking the unedited RAW files and making the panorama. Is there a setting or something I'm missing in LR5?

Yes it is that simple. Just do a google search for Lightroom and Photoshop preference file locations and you should find them. The next time you start the programs, they will rebuild them. Of course, you'll have to re-enter any custom preference settings you've used. Good luck. Of course, when you think you've located them. Just rename them and move them into another folder first. That way, if you've picked the wrong file, you can easily move it back. Once things are working, you can just delete them.
BTW, this is a good troubleshooting tool for any mac applications that are acting wonky. Just delete that preference file, and more often than not, the problem will be fixed.

After I use the "merge to panorama in Photoshop from Lightroom", I get the message "Adobe PSCC has stopped working" message EVEN though I can see the picture is successfully merged. And then the program closes itself! Help!

It's the biggest tease ever haha! I can see the photo beautifully merged but then it forces me to close the program! I have tried this a few times and it's always the same. So annoying. I have never had this problem before until I recently updates to CC from CS6. Any thoughts? Do I just simple reinstall the program?

This panorama consists of at least eight single shots which were (in my opinion) not taken
using a tripod by rotating the viewline about a fixed point. They are more or less somewhat
arbitrary shots.
Merging these requires a kind of optimization which can fail because of numerical problems,
though the intermediate result seems to be convincing. A crash log cannot help.
A remedy would be the manual arrangement of the single shots, varying the degree of
overlapping. That was available in older versions of Photoshop (for me in CS2).
Enlarging your example, we can see some hairlines, like edges of torn paper. What's that?
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Merge RAW files to panorama in photoshop

Hello all, I usually edit my raw files in lightroom and then 'merge to panorama in photoshop'. My question is: Can I save this big panorama merged file as a photoshop raw file and continue editing in lightroom as a normal RAW file? Thanks

Yes, I agree it would be nice. But it will remain a wish.
Here's what I do:
I don't edit at all in Lr before the panorama stitching in Photoshop, except that I make the horizontals and/or verticals (for instance the horizon in a sea shot) straight. That makes it easier for Photoshop to do the stitching.
I don't do much further editing in Photoshop because I do Photoshop-editing on layers and that creates huge files. Rather, I do all editing after the panorama-stitching in Lr.

Merge to Panorama Work Flow?

Hello,
When one uses the "Merge to Panorama in Photoshop" command, a 16-bit TIFF is created and brought back into LR. Is it better to make image corrections to all of the RAW files BEFORE using this command? Alternatively, is there just as much latitude with a 16-bit TIFF as there is with a RAW file for image corrections?
What do you folks do?
Thanks in advance.
Dave

Neither Evening nor Kelby (LR2 editions, my LR3 editions are elsewhere) mention masking with respect to fill light and recovery. They imply that it's an algorithmic swizzle on the conversion from raw to pixels. If that's the case, I suspect they would work OK if you were preprocessing before a panorama and made sure that the fill light and recovery values were used consistently across all segments of the panorama.
Yeah that is not right. The Shadow fill, recovery and clarity are done using automatically generated masks. In principle, you do not want to apply them before merging panoramas as you might get lighting issues in areas that in one shot might be in a large shadow area and in the next shot might be only a smaller area that is hardly affected by the shadow fill slider. This is probably not a big deal when you only apply small amounts of these local contrast HDR-like adjustments but when you do large amounts you are going to want to do it after the panorama merge. The way to do this is to develop all source images very flat using only standard (i.e. no shadow fill, recovery or clarity) sliders, making sure you do not clip highlights and blacks more than you need (generally you are shooting for no clipping) and that you keep contrast low. Make sure to apply all adjustments equally to all images. Then merge to panorama and bring the result back into Lightroom and then do all the adjustments including shadow fills, recovery, clarity etc.
P.S. It is best to not use PS for panoramas in my opinion. It is very inflexible and fails at them quite badly if you have anything but the simplest of image sets.
I'm actually going to go a step further. I've got a shot in mind that requires a person to be in three different parts of the picture. It will be shot through the door into a two-car garage (person on left, middle, and right) and I may need HDR to get the exterior and interior to both be OK.. The camera won't move between the three setups. I'll HDR each setup individuall, then slice the HDRed setups, but I'll slice the picture into three parts and use panorama software to glue them together. On the other hand, I've got enough slaveable strobes that I may be able to just just blast a lot of light in the garage door (maybe mount a couple of strobes above the roll-up garage door to light the back) and not have to do HDR.
I've done this sort of thing many times in landscapes. The best results are obtained by stitching similar exposures first into separate panoramas and then combining those. My favorite panorama software hugin does this really well as you can just dump all images in there, align them and have it spit out assembled separated exposure layers that you can have it combine for you using the built-in enfuse (awesome open source software for natural-looking HDR). You can also put the separate assembled exposure as layers in Photoshop and combine using masks or the built in HDR function or import them into dedicated HDR software such as panomatix.
That said, I think you will get the very best results if you light this particular scene correctly yourself. Strobes are usually the way to go if you have them.

Lightroom link to PS Panorama merge Not working with Photoshop CC 2014 upgrade

I recently received an upgrade to PS CC to PS CC2014. After Upgrading I now notice the Option in Lightroom 5.5 to edit in PS and merge to Panorama is no longer working.
When used, PS program starts, but does not con tune with the script to load existing files and merge into a panorama image.
Does PS CC 2014 use a different script? as it seems to be failing.
Has anyone else had this issue, is there a fix coming?

This worked for me, and a simple solution...
Start PS - restart LR :-)

Why is elements better at photomerge than CC- CC does not appear to automatically fill image based on content but elements does when merging a panorama. Also the stitching is visable in CC but almost perfect in elements- why?

I took 6 panorama shots of a scene and used CC to Photomerge them as one. Couldn't see where to automatic blend the edges and there was 'stitch' lines when the images were merged. So i did the same in Elements 11 and it was perfect. Am i doing something wrong in CC or perhaps not doing something at all?
Any help, please?
Dave

Hi - Thanks for taking the time to reply and i appreciate the remarks- if a little harsh- we all have to start somewhere and i am fully aware of the limitations of Elements which is why i decided to add CC to my software. I can only say that if an inferior quality software from Adobe does the job well then CC must also be suited to doing the same which is why i can only think, from your comments, that i have not done something simple- however- following tutorials to get to the end result should have sufficed- it didn't so perhaps i will consider posting the difference between the two applications- and, perhaps suffer a few more 'harsh' comments. The learning curve is quite steep and i am a visual learner, but i'm also not totally incompetent:)
Kind Regards
Dave Munn
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Subject : why is elements better at photomerge than CC- CC does not appear to automatically fill image based on content but elements does when merging a panorama. Also the stitching is visable in CC but almost perfect in elements- why?
why is elements better at photomerge than CC- CC does not appear to automatically fill image based on content but elements does when merging a panorama. Also the stitching is visable in CC but almost perfect in elements- why?
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First a clarification: you are not addressing Adobe here in these user forums. You are requesting help from volunteers users just like you who give their time free of charge. No one has any obligation to answer your questions.
I'll give it my best shot anyway.
Few folks in this forum are really familiar with Elements, for which there's a dedicated, totally separate forum.
Different engineering teams, also.
From this perspective, it will be difficult to give you a direct answer to your "why?" question.
Personally, I blend very large panorama shots in Photoshop proper since I can't even remember when without any issues whatsoever, up to and including in Photoshop CS6 13.0.6.
Without being at your computer and without looking at your images, I couldn't even begin to speculate what you are doing wrong in Photoshop, which I suspect you are. The least you could show is post examples from your panoramas that have gone wrong.
I can tell you that panorama stitching requires significant overlap between the individual shots, besides common-sdense techniques like a very solid tripod and precision heads.
The only version of Elements I have ever used for any significant time was Elements 6 for Windows, which I bought in 2008 to use on a PC (I've been an avid Mac user for 30 years). I found Elements so limited and so bad that I successfully demanded a refund from Adobe. IU mention this only to emphasize that I can truly only address your question from a Photoshop (proper) and Mac user point of view. I couldn't care less about Elements, but if you have comparison examples of panoramas processed in both applications, by all means post those two.
Generally speaking Photoshop is a professional level application that makes no apologies for its very long and steep learning curve, while Photoshop has many hand-holding features for amateurs and beginners.
Perhaps the bottom line is that you should stick with Elements if you personally manage to get better results there.
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Merge to panorama from Lightroom to PS CS6 "could not be started"

I'm sure someone else has had this issue - but I've been searching for two days without finding it! I use LR 5.6 (5.7 as of 1 hour ago). I have PS CS5.1. I've routinely merged to panorama from Lightroom with no issues using CS5. I can upgrade to CS6 for $200 and I was led to believe the camera raw was contemporary (rather than giving me the "export anyway" dialog), the merge algorithm was better and the content-aware fill had been improved. As this really the only thing I us PS for (mostly), I thought I'd try the trial version and see if I could evaluate side-by-side.
When I "merge to panorama" now in LR, CS6 opens, makes me click the obligatory trail dialog, then just sits there... Eventually, LR comes up with the error that CS6 could not be launched (even though it does launch). I tried opening the DNG files in bridge and I could merge them... Did not notice an improvement in the content-aware fill - but I'd like to merge the same series on my laptop (with CS5) and desktop (with CS6) and give it a fair comparison. What could I be doing wrong??? Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry. Are you saying that resetting Preferences did not work, or that you don't want to try it?
Are you asking the same question in the Lightroom forum?
This link refers to Bridge, but it covers CC scripting problems. I was going to ask if using CC 2013 helped, although I suspect that wherever you initiate the script from will default to the most recent version of Photoshop. So you are probably going to need to uninstall and reinstall.
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.cr2 Raws can't use "Merge to Panorama..."

Actually right clicking a .cr2 file and choosing "Edit in..." or "Merge to Panorama..."... or anything else that calls CS5 does nothing at all. This function worked fine in v3 beta and in 2.7 (and still works in Bridge in various CS versions). There must be some link between LR v3 and Photoshop CS5 that's broken. Anyone know what to look for or where in order to fix this? I'm on a Mac running 10.6.4. Both Photoshop and LR are running as 64bit apps. I also have the full CS3 and CS4 suites installed as well if that might be a problem (wasn't for the beta)
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I thought about that but was hoping not to do that... and go through considerable time to reconfigure lots of special prefs (all of which worked just fine with v3 beta).
I think I've found a simpler solution (and now don't think a re-install of Photoshop would have done it).
In poking around the contents of the LR3 package I see that virtually all of the scripts are set to be opened with Lightroom 2. I still have Lightroom 2.7 on the computer. I do a lot of work in a teaching environment where students are still working on 2.7. I kind of hoped to keep both installed (again... that worked fine with the beta). I could probably log in as root and reassign the default program for all of those scripts to Lightroom 3. Instead I just trashed Lightroom 2.7. So far all is well with the world again. "Merge to Panorama..." works as it should with raw files again.
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Why does Merge to Panorama not allow rendering in Lightroom?

If I choose to Edit in Photoshop on one or more images, I get prompted that Camera Raw 7 may be needed for Photoshop to render the images correctly - which I understand as the versions of Camera Raw are different - and then get three options to choose from: Open Anyway, Render in Lightroom and Cancel.
However, if I choose Merge to Panorama the only options are Open Anyway and Cancel - I assume this is the same for Merge to HDR although I haven't tried it. So why can't Lightroom offer the same Render in Lightroom option when merging to panoramas? It's possible to work around it as I am currently doing, but it's a bit convoluted: Edit in Photoshop, Render in Lightroom, manually initiate Photomerge, save the resultant TIFF in the correct place, sync the folder to import it, then delete the original TIFFs Lightroom created that I didn't really want in the first place.
I'm assuming this is an oversight that will be corrected in the final version - would be nice to get that confirmed though!

I would guess that Render-in-Lightroom choice doesn’t apply when the number of input files (the RAWs in LR4) doesn’t match the number of output files from Photoshop (a single panorama or HDR file).
In the normal Edit In Photoshop situation the file you are rendering in LR on the way to Photoshop is what Photoshop is going to save to, so LR doesn’t need to delete any temporary files. When you make a panorama or HDR there are intermediate files that would need to be cleaned up, and instead of being an oversight, maybe it is just LR trying to be simple about things. Simple means that LR is not going to create and delete intermediate files for you along with not asking you how the temporary files should be named or where they should be created. The lack of camera-raw would be a rare and usually transient condition so would be a low priority in the overall scheme of things to implement a solution for.

Merge to Panorama ... grayed out

After a reinstall of Windows 7-64 (to fix an unrelated issue) "Merge to Panorama" no longer works; its grayed out. It was working fine prior to the reinstall. I can Edit with "Photoshop Elements 6" from "Lightroom 2" (the same sw that worked earlier) but all the other selection under "Photo->Edit In" are grayed out.
I tried solutions that helped others in the forum but they didn't fix my problem. A registery path change didn't work, for that matter Lightroom can find Elements. I also changed the Bit Depth to 8 bits. I reinstalled Lightroom.
I tried photos that worked earlier with no sucess. I'm trying raw photos, same as when it worked.
When I re-installed Lightroom it was version 2.0. After an upgrade, it moved up to 2.7; neither worked. I don't know what verions it was at when it was working.

Do you have Photoshop installed? Merge to Panorama is an option only available with PS, not with PSE (and has always been).
To compose a Pano in PSE, you can do the following:
Select several photos in LR
Edit in Adobe Photoshop Elements
In PSE, File/New/Photomerge Panorama
Save Pano
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Import saved Pano into LR
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I'm using CS5 to build panoramas. When I merge 5 raw files photoshop goes through all the motions, ordering and matching the images, but when it is just about done, and the message says building masks, the image just pops up with no blending or masks listed in the layers area. The images are raw files from Canon 5d mkII. With CS3 I was able to merge over a dozen images but they were from 40d.
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I would guess that Render-in-Lightroom choice doesn’t apply when the number of input files (the RAWs in LR4) doesn’t match the number of output files from Photoshop (a single panorama or HDR file).
In the normal Edit In Photoshop situation the file you are rendering in LR on the way to Photoshop is what Photoshop is going to save to, so LR doesn’t need to delete any temporary files. When you make a panorama or HDR there are intermediate files that would need to be cleaned up, and instead of being an oversight, maybe it is just LR trying to be simple about things. Simple means that LR is not going to create and delete intermediate files for you along with not asking you how the temporary files should be named or where they should be created. The lack of camera-raw would be a rare and usually transient condition so would be a low priority in the overall scheme of things to implement a solution for.

Merge to Panorama creates a split image of the whole merged image

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