Lightroom: Create a panorama - 5 steps instructions

Our instructions for creating panorama pictures work with Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC 2017. In these 5 steps, you reach the goal


1. Start


To create a panorama makes less work in Lightroom than in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, for example. Start in the "Library" and select the single images. Then click the right mouse button in the selection, and choose "Photos, Panoramic".


2. Automatic Release


The "Panorama" command can also be found in the submenu "Photo, Photos". The function is also available when you select a stack - that is, a block of photos that Lightroom represents by a single thumbnail.


3. Lens profile


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Alternatively, you can set the panorama without seeing a dialog box at all. To do this, select the command while holding down the Shift key, or press Ctrl + Shift + M, Mac Ctrl + Shift + M. Lightroom then uses the most recently used settings.


Lightroom automatically fills the still images into a seamless panorama, even if you have photographed inaccurately. This generally produces a white border. With the "Auto-Release" option, Lightroom will cut these strips as desired - the aspect ratio will change and you will lose some of the


You can crop the edge automatically and display it later: Open the finished panorama in the "Develop" module, switch to the "Overlay" tool. After right-clicking on the image, you can then "Reset".


Tip: Lightroom offers three different "projections". Usually the automatically selected projection is sufficient. If you do not like this variant, however, try the other possibilities "Cylindrical" and "Perspective."


For panoramic mounting, Lightroom uses lens profiles if possible. On the basis of this information, the program corrects distortions and edge shading. In our example, however, Lightroom reports: "Lens profile can not be adjusted automatically." Without a profile it is also possible - just click on "Join", usually a good panorama is created Code>

If Lightroom does not find the lens profile, choose to embed it manually into the originals: leave the individual images selected, switch to the "Develop" module, and turn the automatic synchronization on the lower right. In the "Lens Corrections" panel, switch to "Profile" and activate "Profile Corrections". Specify the lens you are using - if necessary, a similar model.


Tip: Alternatively, manually correct the panorama result. You can do this in the "Lens corrections" section in the "Manual" section.


After the "join" a file is created in DNG format. Lightroom is attached to the existing filename "Pano", in our example "1a-Pano.dng" is created. If you want to quickly retrieve all panorama results in a folder or collection, click on "Text" at the top of the library filter and type the search term "Pano."


Tip: While Lightroom calculates the file, you can already work on it - start the next panorama montage, for example.


4. The new file


If the white border is retouched instead of cropped, the image size and aspect ratios change. To do this, convert the DNG version to "JPEG" using "File, Export". Then choose "Edit, Preferences," select the "Edit JPEG files next to RAW files as separate photos" option, and lastly sync the folder.


Then click on the result and switch to the "Development" module for the "Area Repair" tool. Drag it over white surfaces next to sky or sea - such homogeneous zones Lightroom continues well outwards. Move the retouch areas until the correction stops.


5. Retouch


Tip: To crop the panorama to a defined aspect ratio, switch to the "Overlay" tool and click on "Original" or some other aspect ratio. After clicking on "Ben.def. Enter "the desired proportions, e.g. A page ratio offered by a print service.