Probem with Photomerge in CS4

I am having a problem with Photomerge. I am trying to merge 5 raw images shot with a canon 1ds MII. I have tried to do this through Bridge, but have also tried Photoshop direct. As you can see from the image attached, the merge is not seemless. All of these images were shot in manual mode at the same settings, only a few seconds apart. I have an HP desktop running windows xp. I have 4 GB or RAM. In preferences I was set at 60%, Any suggestions? I will try converting files to tif's and trying again, but so far, with raw files this is the output I am getting.
Thanks,
Ken

Two things:
1. Your attachments never made it to the forum. Please use the web interface.
2. Did you try enabling Vignette Removal?
3. Do you see this dialog during the operation of Photomerge?
I suspect there's something wrong with your images, or possibly a bug in your setup, if Photomerge is not making smooth blends. As I mentioned, water is not good for Photomerge, as it changes from moment to moment, and details matter when trying to perfectly blend images!
I get very smooth blending with it, and have all the way back through Photoshop CS4. Here's one example, right after Photomerge completed, with only Layer - Flatten and downsizing from 16310 x 6410 pixels:
-Noel

Similar Messages

Problems with Photomerge in CS4

I'm using Photoshop on Vista 32. When I try to do a photomerge either from PS or Bridge, it does its stuff, then closes everything immediately. Reboots / changed options make no difference. Any ideas?

ME TOO.
PhotoMerge appears to have been broken in the move to CS4.
Whilst I am glad that PhotoMerge in CS4 is working for SOME, on my two main, quite different, XPP/3/32bit systems (one with supported 3D card, one without) I have been unable to get CS4 to create ANY panoramas.
In CS4, as shipped in the 'Master Collection', attempting to merge only two images that, on the same systems [right now, TODAY!] are merged by CS3 (and ptGUI, and APP) results only in a series of processing msgs during which a file named something like "unnamed_panorama1" appears as a tab. When processing stops, that tab vanishes. Sadly, no trace of this file is seen in the recent file list, nor anywhere on the hard-drive.
Yes, Default Photomerge entries are being used (as well as all possible combinations of geo-correct, vig-removal, various projections etc).
Repeating this merge attempt with 'tab view' disabled results in the same sequence (only the evanescent image is a free floating one).
Initially, my thought was that this was because I had not yet 'activated' CS4. Sadly, 'activation' produced no change: Images are energetically being processed, but the final result disappears.
Copying the 'manually align' option from CS3 into CS4 results, at the end of various processing messages, in an ErrMsg popping up saying that "CS4 was unable to automatically align 'some' images.
Um, there were only two images, and was not the point of selecting 'manually align' images to MANUALLY align images?
CS4 then displays a completely transparent "untitled_Panorama1" image and LOCKS.
Random clicking on the interface produced a "This program has ..." error (I saved the error dump, if anyone from Adobe is interested) and died.
To re-iterate, I have yet to be able to create the simplest two-image panorama with CS4 on two, quite different, XPP/3 systems.
This failure is with images that CS3 has no trouble with on these same systems, at the same time as CS4 fails.
Something is clearly wrong here.

Multi-Row panorama with Photomerge ...

Hi,
does somebody has experiences with stitching multi-row panoramas with CS4's photomerge?
I always ended up with a very strange viewpoint somewhere into the sky instead of a straight horizont. It's somehow understandable - where should Photomerge know the horizont and the desired viewpoint from.
So, are there any tutorials or hints how to create multi row panoramas with Photomerge - I searched a lot but didn't find any usable. Or do I have to use another tool like PTGui?
Thanks a lot
Konrad

Yes, the first row are image in the orthognal plane around the vertical axis. Stitching them together result in a normal horizontal 360 pano.
But I've a second row above the first one from the upper parts of the sourrounding. And using Photomerge they are not merged together in a way that places the first row in front of the horizont is still the same as for the first row - what's clear, because PS does known nothing about those semantics.

Hi I have been having a problem with Bridge in CS4 recently. So uninstalled CS4 and Lightroom 4.4 and reinstalled them on my Desktop PC. When I turned on Bridge through CS4, My thumb nail images disappeared and a thumb nail icon with CR2 appeared. Now som

Hi I have been having a problem with Bridge in CS4 recently. So uninstalled CS4 and Lightroom 4.4 and reinstalled them on my Desktop PC. When I turned on Bridge through CS4, My thumb nail images disappeared and a thumb nail icon with CR2 appeared. Now some of my images have disappeared from Light room 4.4, but I can find them in CS4 and Bridge now shows some thumb nails as images and some as an icon with CR2. I have spent two weeks going through preferences etc. to find how to resolve my problem. Please can you Help? Meany thanks in advance
Derek Randall

I don't use LR and rarely use the bridge so I can not answers about thumbnails in them, However thumbnails in windows file explorer and windows dialog for CS2 files will only show if you have installed codec into windows that will produce them. Windows does not do CR2 thumbnails on its own. I use FastPictureViewer Codec package for RAW File and PSD files thunbmail support.

Installing and using Adobe Air SDK 2.5 with Flash Professional CS4

Hi,
I am trying to install the Air SDK 2.5 with Flash Professional CS4 with the intention of creating a program to use Actionscript 3 to communicate with the UDP interface using datagrams. (The server is the IL2 device link interface) As I am very new to this development environment I was wondering if anyone could answer a few questions.
1) Can I use datagram sockets with Air 2.5 with Actionscript 3 and Flash CS4?
2) Is there special procedure for installing the AIR SDK 2.5 or do I use the instructions layout in "How to Overlay the Adobe Air 2 SDK for Use with Flash Professional - Flash professional CS4"?
3) If I do use those instructions, when I edit the namespace for my application do I set it to 2.0 or 2.5?
4) As a stepping stone to building my program I was trying to try to build the Actionscript 3 DatagramSocketExample program that is published by Adobe. Unfortunately I am getting a '1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: DatagramSocketDataEvent'.
Is there a step by step tutorial on how to get the example code up and running?
Thankyou for your time and patience with my noob questions
Ian

This was part of the AIR 2.0 beta release note, but I used this for 2.5 and it works nice.
You can try it too an make sure you use 2.5 wherever the not says 2.0beta2.
Goodluck.
How to Update Flash CS4 to Use the AIR 2 Beta SDK
If you use Flash CS4 Professional to build Adobe AIR applications, please follow the instructions below to manually update the version of the AIR SDK to use version 2.0.
Update Flash CS4 Professional to version 10.0.2 at http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html or select "Help > Updates... " from within Flash CS4.
Quit Flash CS4 Professional if it is open.
Navigate to the Flash CS4 installation folder. The default location on Windows is "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\" and on Mac OS "/Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/"
Within the "Adobe Flash CS4" folder you should see a folder called "AIK1.5". If this folder is not present repeat step #1.
Rename the folder "AIK1.5" to "AIK1.5 OLD" or delete it if you do not need to save a copy of it.
Make a new folder called "AIK1.5"
Download the Adobe AIR 2 SDK from the labs website and uncompress the contents of the folder to the new "AIK1.5" folder you just created.
Copy the "airglobal.swc" file located within the "Adobe Flash CS4/AIK1.5/frameworks/libs/air/" folder into the "Adobe Flash CS4/Common/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/AIR1.5/" folder.
Flash CS4 is now configured to use the AIR 2 beta 2 SDK.
In order to take advantage of the new AIR 2 beta 2 features, you will need to update your application descriptor file to use the "2.0beta2" namespace.

Problem with Photomerge Exposure, Photoshop Elements 13?

Problem with Photomerge Exposure, Photoshop Elements 13?. Why does Photomerge Exposure not give me a finished DONE photo. If I open 2 photos, it will merge then, and when I press DONE I get a new photo file that I can save. However, if I open 3 photos, and go through the same process, the software analyzes the photos, I get a new image, BUT when I press DONE, the new image vanishes???? I can open the same 3 photos in Elements 8 and it works fine. any ideas please.

I, too, am having problems in version 11 with Photomerge Exposure. I can merge the 3 photos successfully with version 10. In version 11 when I click done, I am taken back to the Expert mode of the Editor but the merged photo in the photo bin is not accessible. When I first return to the editor, one of the original images (before merge) is selected. When I double/click on the merged photo it doesn't become the active image. In fact, any image I double click on momentarily becomes the active image and then jumps to another one.
The merged photo is visible in the photo bin but I can't select it.
I am running version 11 on my MacBook running OS 10.6.8
Mary Lou

Help with Photomerge and how to do suggested solutions

I am using Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP and am having a problem with Photomerge working very slow, not working at all, and not being able to handle more than 2 photos (sometimes it won't even do 2 that have 25% overlap). I found these solutions in a previous thread.
Solution 2: Increase the amount of scratch disk space available to Photomerge.
Solution 3: Decrease the size of the source files.
Solution 4: Reduce the amount of RAM allocated to Photoshop in the Memory & Image Cache Preference to approximately 40-50% and retry.
Can someone tell me if these solutions are correct? If so, how can I do these? If not, what can I try? If I could get detailed instructions (I don't know anything about computers) that would be the best. Thanks in advance for any help!

I have often scanned LP album covers in segments, at 600 ppi, and used Photomerge to meld them together. That results in images that are roughly 7200x7200 pixels, or 50 megapixels. Photomerge is pretty quick, given the size of the files.
But yeah, you may need to reduce the resolution of the files you are scanning. You may be scanning at 1200 ppi or higher. For text, I don't think I'd go much below 600 ppi if you want a really clear reproduction, and scan in grayscale or RGB, not the "text" mode, which is 1-bit bitmap and will not likely work well with Photomerge. Turn all descreening or sharpening options off in the scanning software; likewise, turn off all exposure wizards and expose all images at the base manual settings (don't use the scanner software's curves, etc.). You will take care of the exposure, sharpening, descreening, etc. in PS once you have scanned and merged.

Need help with PhotoMerge Panorama

Can someone help me with PhotoMerge Panorama in PE 13? I upgraded from version 6 and now cannot adjoin separate images into one image. Every time I try I get this message: "Panorama could not be created as some images could not be automatically aligned". In version 6 it would allow me to position the files together manually if the program couldn't figure how to do it automatically, but that feature doesn't seem to be available in version 13. Thanks for any help.

I think i saw the link about interactive layout missing:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6011038
So maybe i should try lower version of PSE... i hope it is available.
To mytaxsite:
Thanks for your reply... maybe the link you gave is referenced to another PSE version...
About the suggested blank canvas... maybe I could try... but this involves many images which is hard to do when switching between windows.... but i'll give it a shot.

About the crash on quit with After Effects CS4 on Mac OS...

This post on Jeff Almasol's blog gives some information about an issue with ScriptUI scripts that can cause After Effects CS4 on Mac OS to crash when you quit the application:
about the crash on quit with After Effects CS4 on Mac OS...
Trish and Chris Meyer recommend a couple of workarounds on the
ProVideo Coalition website.

I want to maximize the use of the render farm and not just limit it to AE, I want to be able to render in multiple creative applications. Deadline looks good except as of today its Windows/Linux only: http://www.franticfilms.com/software/products/deadline/feature_set/
I want to throw in Final Cut Studio into the Mix along with Modo, Houdini, C4D and other applications, but strictly on Mac OS X.

While installing the CS6 Apps through CC Subscription, what should I do with my old CS4 App

While installing the CS6 Apps through Creative Cloud Subscription, what should I do with my old CS4 Apps still in my Apps folder?
After installing my first 2, Ai and ID, I check the Application Folder and both the newly installed CS6 and my old CS4 versions of each App are in the folder.
Do I just throw away into the trash the CS4 versions? If so, will all my created data files remain intact?
Someone please respond and help, rather than just viewing this, as the many views listed show. Thanks!

Uninstall the CS4 versions properly using the uninstallers that come with them (aliases are in each of the apps' directories). Beyond that it works as it should - newer versions always leave older ones in place. Whether or not you will be able to open all your CS4 files in CS6 we cannot know - yes, newer versions should open older files, but you may be using specific stuff that limits compatibility like certain plug-ins that would need to be upgraded for CS6 as well. For that exact reason you may wanna keep CS4 around a while longer until you can be sure...
Mylenium

Problem with photomerge exposure

I am trying out the trial version of PSE 8. When I try to use photoexposure merge, the program will merge the two photos perfectly, but when I click the Done button, I get a Runtime error box saying the program has to close. This has happened twice with the exposure merge, but did not happen with group picture merge (although the group merge failed to merge the pictures twice when I clicked done, then succeeded the third time I tried). I am using Windows XP.
Thanks, Terry

Rebooting worked; thanks again for the suggestion. Being new to the forums, I cannot figure out how to indicate on the discusson web page that my question has been answered.
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 08:43:31 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problem with photomerge exposure
Photomerge Exposure has a bug with images larger than 10 megapixels, but yours are smaller than that. The known symptoms are different too (the automatic alignment fails), but with bugs, you never know.
Have you tried rebooting your machine? Photomerge Panorama sometimes behaves erratically and rebooting sometimes appears to make the erratic behavior go away.
>

Problem with Photomerge after Update CC

Hi Guys,
have anybody the same problems with photomerge out there since new PS CC update 6 days ago?
Photoshop cant stich the pics. PS missed the last step "nahtlose komposition erstellen".
What can i do?
System:
Mac Pro (2013) *whoop whoop
Regards
M

I finally found how to resolve this bug :
Delete those 2 files :
> MACHD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AAMUpdater
> MACHD/user/(nom de session)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AAMUpdater
Then, delete the creative cloud application & reinstall from here (France) > https://creative.adobe.com/fr/products/creative-cloud
Everything is ok for me with the full new update CC 2014 now.
Good luck+++

Help! error code 8 with Adobe premier cs4 and OpenGl

hey there,
i've been trying to work with adobe premier cs4 on my new Thinkpad w520 (i7 2720, 8GB, Nvidia quadro 1000m)
i keep getting this error messege regarding the OpenGl (error code #8) that lost connection with the display driver, after that its automaticly shutting down premier.
nvidia representive suggested me to download an old driver (268.71) instead of the latest one, still wouldn't solve the problam.
can anyone help me with that issue!?
jonny

hey jonygeron,
if you uninstall the current graphic driver , let windows install its generic driver .. can you get Premier CS4 to work ?
WW Social Media
Important Note: If you need help, post your question in the forum, and include your system type, model number and OS. Do not post your serial number.
Did someone help you today? Press the star on the left to thank them with a Kudo!
If you find a post helpful and it answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution"!
Follow @LenovoForums on Twitter!
Have you checked out the Community Knowledgebase yet?!
How to send a private message? --> Check out this article.

I have 64 bit windows 7 and CS4 Production Premium. I have a problem with Premiere Pro CS4, it keeps

I have 64 bit windows 7 and CS4 Production Premium. I have a problem with Premiere Pro CS4, it keeps freezing and Crashing. A simple thing like leaving the project idle for about 15 minutes, you come back and find that it has frozen. Also if you drag out a clip on the timeline you will find that the whole application freezes. Any possible solutions would be much appreciated.

Could be several factors at play here. This ARTICLE might give you some tips on getting your computer ready for an editing session. Note that there are some added tips on Win7, thanks to Black Viper, near the end.
If nothing is helping, then the tips in this ARTICLE might help you find some clues amongst the breadcrumbs left behind with a hang, or crash.
The link in this ARTICLE will give you some general troubleshooting tips.
If nothing improves, then please post back with more details. This ARTICLE will give you tips on what would be helpful.
Good luck,
Hunt

AVCHD with PR PRO CS4

Hey guys
Wanted to ask about possibly upgrading in the near future to the SONY HDR AX2000 (currently use HDV- which has it's own issues with pr pro cs4- choppy playback not really being one of them though)
Anybody have this camera or similar cam with AVCHD- (either sony, panasonic)- does it run relatively smoothly in PR PRO CS4 or would I be running into choppy playback with just 2-3 pip video tracks
my system
adobe prod prem cs4
win 7 64 bit pro
i7 980x- 6 core
12 GB RAM
1 TB 7200 rpm system drive
1 TB e-sata 7200 rpm media drive
1 TB 7200 rpm media cache drive
any thoughts?

Jim -
Pardon the interuption. I'll try to be brief. I'm an old PR PRO 6.5 user( current old desktop is truly 'outdated'/no power ). I got out of the 'tape' cameras. For starters, bought a Canon Vixia HF21( AVCHD ).   Am having trouble importing into current laptop using PR PRO CS4(Master Collection ).   Installed AVS4YOU Video Converter.   Took 5HRS 28MIN to convert a 51min program( imported in 4, .mts files - the 2GB thing ) to .AVI file, then tried MPEG2.   When in PP CS4, shows up 1/4 size on Program Monitor( I even 'stretched it' in the Program Monitor to full size ).   After editing, sent to Encoder. After 5HRS 21MIN, sent to Encore. Resulting DVD is sluggish, blurry, choppy, anything else that can happen.
Currently using laptop....( 'cuz I have 2 small projects to finish )
                 Gateway NV53 laptop
                 AMD Athlon II Dual-Core M320 2.1GHz
                 4GB memory
                 500 GB HHD ( partitioned -- 100GB-OS; 400GB-video )
                 2TB external ( for finished projects )
Want to build new desktop.. SOON ( from NewEgg )...
                 ASUS M4A78L-M AM3 AMD 760G -- mobo
                 AMD Phenom II x6 1090T 6core ( 3.2GHz )
                 ASUS ENGT 440 GeForce GT 440 / 1GB / 128-bit GDDR5 video card
                 G SKILL 16GB(4x4GB) 240 pin DDR3 SDSRAM 1600 ( PC 12800 ) -- memory
                 WD 640GB/7200/3.0Gb/s HDD --- OS
                 WD 2TB/7200/6.0Gb/s HDD --- video drive
Will CS4( CS5, CS5.5 ) run off an AMD ?
System suggestions, please.
thanks for your ear/patience.

Probem with Photomerge in CS4

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for