Panoramic in cs3

[DigiDiva]

I am new to photoshop and have CS3. I am trying to create a panoramic from 3 images and have hit a problem. I have all of the photos open on photoshop. I use the move tool with the shift held down to layer them. I am then supposed to highlight the layers in blue by holding down shift and using the up/down keys before I auto align. What happens here is, the images nudge rather than highlight in blue!

Hope I am making sense here. I need to know how to highlight the layers in blue so I can auto align.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks a bunch

[nick_gray]

Don't use the move tool when selecting your layers, use the direct select tool (the small white arrow) instead and then the shift and arrow keys. Once your layers are selected/highlighted then click on the move icon and align. Alternatively click on the move icon and then hold down the shift key and click the layers with your mouse.

BTW Check to see is there is a PhotoMerge option in CS3, there is in CS5, it is under File>Automate>PhotoMerge. I've used it to make a panoramic image. You just select your files, go off for a coffee (as it can take a bit of time, depending on how many images you have) and when you come back the images have been analysed and automatically stitched together.

This is a sequence of 5 images that I stitched together:



Regards

Nick

[DigiDiva]

Thanks Nick. Im at work at the moment but will try this tonight.

[DigiDiva]

Worked a treat! Cheers

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

Worked a treat! Cheers

Well, let's see it then!

[DigiDiva]

Haha, sorry, will post it later. Need to do my PP'ing first!

[GeoffWessex]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

Haha, sorry, will post it later. Need to do my PP'ing first!

Oh! That reminds me...... excuse me!

[SunderlandPhotography]

If you have a quite a few shots for the panaromic. Make sure you resize them or the program will crash. (Well mine does)

[DigiDiva]

I only took 3 images.