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Photomerge two images to create High FOV (Field Of View)

Sometimes, you want to get closer pictures of some objects that are too big to appear in the viewfinder of the camera.
So you have to satisfy yourself with a very low res pic taken from way back.

Photoshop has a very good feature called Photomerge to counter this problem.
This tool lets you merge two pictures of a same object taken in diff angles.

I'll first start by two pictures of this old aeroplane, taken in the Lucknow Zoo.



* Open both of the images.
* Now go to File ---> Automate ---> Photomerge



Now unless you are a professional photographer or have taken the images in perfect Perspective,
Photomerge would not be able to automatically merge the images.
So you have to the work manually.

* Drag the two images in the central area.

* Use the Zoom tool (Z) to zoom into the picture. Alt + Click to Zoom out if you wish.

* Use the select Image tool (A). Now drag and align the images in the order you wish them to appear.

This is how it is supposed to look... It will be distorted.
Now as you can see the image of the head of the plane is not properly aligned.



* So you may have to use the rotate tool ( R) to make the merge look better.



* The picture looks a lot better now. But the ground and rails are not properly aligned.
So you will have to click on Perspective radio button on the right.

* Now you can also select Advanced Blending and Cylindrical mapping and click on perview to view the final pic.Click Ok when you are finished.

This is the final merged pic.



You can even create 360* views using this tool.

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