The resulting output is a high dynamic range panorama raw file that can be fully developed in Lightroom.
#Lightroom 5.7.1 tutorials series#
Three frames merged into a DNG panorama and adjusted in LR CC before opening in PS for additional developing.įinally, you can create high dynamic range panoramas by first creating merged HDR files for each frame in the pano series and then merging these HDR raw files into an HDR panorama. Photo Merge to Panorama allows you to stitch, crop and develop multi-frame panoramas without needing to go to Photoshop or some other image stitching application, and the panoramic DNG file can be fully developed in Lightroom like any raw file. This process is now greatly simplified in Lightroom CC and no longer requires Photoshop! Lightroom Photo Merge to HDR is similar to the 32-bit HDR tiff file processing capability that was first introduced back in LR 4 and which I demonstrated in a previous video blog and also include in my Developing for Extended Dynamic Range video series. In addition, the merged HDR or pano DNG can be opened as a tiff file in Photoshop for additional developing there.
Four exposures merged to an HDR raw file and adjusted in LR CC before opening in PS for additional developing.īoth merge features combine raw files to produce a merged DNG raw file, which is brilliant! This means we can merge first and make our adjustments directly to the merged raw file, which I assume retains all the adjustment capabilities of the originating raw files.