Creating Panoramas with Lightroom

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

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