Further Editing Techniques

To make my images more seamlessly edited, I had to use numerous techniques, with involved editing background parts of images, editing colours and warping images.

The first thing I would do when stitching images together would be to warp the images slightly so they would fit together properly. Moving the image slightly would make it less obviously warped, and make it look as if the images were blended together. However, this method would only work for large areas such as grass, and further editing would be needed for more detailed areas.

One of the main problems I found while stitching my images together was that some parts of the images would patch up but other parts wouldn't. To fix this, I selected parts of the image that wouldn't match up and cipied them onto a new layer to warp them. By doing this, the original photo is left intect and the newer, edited part matches up with the original photo.

In this example, I copied the bridge onto another layer and warped it, so the background stayed intact.

Because I had to make many edits like these, I ended up with many layers. To prevent my editing from becoming confusing, I named all of my layers and places the warped layers into a folder with the original image they were edited from.

To blend the colours effectively, I had to use a mix of destructive and non-destructive editing. Layer masking would work for larger areas such as the sky, but for parts where the colour contrast was more prominent, I used dodge/burn on low opacities to fix the lighting on parts of images so they would blend together well.

To make sure that both ends of my panorama would match up perfectly, I used the same image at the beginning and end of the panorama so the nearby pictures would blend well with both edges of the original picture. I think that this will save me time at the end of my project when I have to put my panorama together in the code.