I finally finished up a panorama of the PCH, taken from a great lookout a little ways out from San Francisco. I'd been chipping away at it for a while and was really craving to see it complete. I've included the before and after images, to show what I was working with. I find Photoshop and other programs never really give a decent piece together on any automated settings, so I set all the photos out and line them up as best I can, peeking with transparency. In this case, I used at least 6 photos, to make it a nice long stretch.

In theory, for panoramas, all the photos should be taken on a manual exposure so the colour and especially the sky will always look the same in each frame. I just fired off some quick photos in sequence, and brought on the extra work...but I guess I enjoy the challenge. After layering things together I synched up the colour as best I could. The most time consuming part was filling in all the missing areas and correcting all of the bad overlaps. I find the key to adding in new chunks is just copying and pasting in chunks from other parts and then using clone and paint to blend it in. Just using the clone tool doesn't work for large areas and creates too much blur. Once everything was patched, I droppped in another whole sky to try and smooth it out, and then merged and adjusted the colour for the whole photo.