Photomerge CS5 doesn't work

Question

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 ?

Answer 1

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