photoshop panorama

[Cocohoney]

Hi,
My son is trying to knit together 6 images for an art project. Each picture is an individual letter made from blocks on a staircase, he was hoping to put these into a panorama to make a word.

The photomerge on photoshop just overlaps all the letters and even when I put it on reposition and uncheck merge, I can't spread them out as I can't resize them individually in the frame and so when they are moved they disappear out of the side of it iyswim?

Is there a way of placing them manually and then blending?

 

[4wd]

You could create a suitably sized new 'empty' image then open your segments, and copy/paste them in.
Use the move tool to slide them along.
The blending is a different matter and you best approach will depend how much work is needed.

 

[Cocohoney]

good plan- I want the stairs to look like one wide set- what options for merging are there apart from matching colours exposure etc and then clone tool?

 

[Skyviews100]

I dont have much experience in Panorama in PS, so can't add much in that respect. I guess that you have already done as much "in camera" to make it easier to stitch i.e constant lighting & exposure, white balance and focus through all the shots.

I would create a large image in PS and bring each individual shot in as a new layer and align manually.

If you use the panorama tool, it looks for corresponding "control points" in the individual images and overlays them. As the control points are in the same position on each image, it just puts them on top of each other.

 

[Cocohoney]

yes, that's what I've found, done now as you have both suggested

glad I don't have homework...