Panoramas Made Crazy Easy

Elements has had a feature to help you stitch multiple photos into a single panoramic photo for years now. As long as you did everything right in the camera (shooting on a tripod with just about every auto feature turned off), Photomerge worked pretty well. However, Photomerge is now so vastly improved that you can pretty much hand-hold your camera without regard to the auto settings, and Photomerge will not only perfectly align the photos, but now it will also seamlessly blend the pieces together, even if the exposure or white balance isn’t “on the money.” This is very cool stuff.

Step One:

Select the individual pieces of your pano in the Organizer. Here, I chose seven separate photos we’re going to stitch together into a panorama. Go under the File menu, under New, and choose Photomerge^® Panorama, or simply open all seven photos in the Editor, then go under the File menu, under New, and choose Photomerge^® Panorama.