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Photoshop CS3 Tips - Auto Bend Layers

Added on October 29th, 2007 - Impression Media

Auto Bend Layers

Auto-Bend Layers allows you to seamlessly bend related images together. Below are two photos I took at New York City, side by side.

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Put them together in separate layer, overlapping each other.

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Select both layers, go to Edit > Auto-Bend Layers. Photoshop will do the magic and bend the layers you selected together. It even fixes the lighting and color for you, so your image bends seamlessly.

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Auto Align Layers

Here I will show you how to create a panoramic image (combined from several images) in just couple of steps:

1. Collect several related images on separate layers.

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2. Go to Edit > Auto-Align Layers. Photoshop will automatically analyze the contents, moving and rotating the layers so they overlap as precisely as possible.

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3. Then apply Edit > Auto-Bend Layers again to bend the image together.

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[Source: ndesign-studio.com - October 2007]