Panorama help needed

[Martyn]

I've taken a series of 8 shots in portrait format around (left to right) the interior of a local theatre. I used full manual settings on the camera and overlapped each shot by nearly 50%. I processed one of the pictures in Lightroom 5 then synchronized the settings across the set then exported them all as JPG files. I've tried various software to do a panorama with mixed results, so I decided to download a trial version of the latest Photoshop Elements to give that a try. Elements 12 does a fantastic job of blending the pictures together almost seamlessly, the problem I'm having is that it keeps putting the files in the wrong order in the final panorama despite the file numbering being correct. Is there a way I can force Elements 12 to put the files in the correct order to merge them?

 

 

 

 

 

[colinb]

I find doing the stitching by hand is often as easy and gives better results, but Martyn is it possible to do say three sections of 4 pictures then reload the 3 sections to complete a final image? 

[Martyn]

Thanks Colin, I'll have a go at doing them in sections first and see how I get on.

[Martyn]

Well that didn't work. I can join 2 pictures up great, but joining the resulting images ends in a crashed computer or a message telling me the images cannot be aligned. In the end I joined 4 photos in perspective mode................. it took three hours! 

[colinb]

Well that didn't work. I can join 2 pictures up great, but joining the resulting images ends in a crashed computer or a message telling me the images cannot be aligned. In the end I joined 4 photos in perspective mode................. it took three hours! 

 

can you reduce the file sizes down? How big will the final image be and if it is going to be so large it will unusable you might be better off reducing all 8 and trying again sometime?

[Guest]

Perhaps you need PTGUI? I use it have don't have problems.

[Martyn]

Today I've had a go at another panorama. Don't know what the problem was yesterday, but I've just done this one in about 10 minutes from start to finish. Maybe some sets of photos just don't lend themselves to panos or maybe they confuse the software program. Perhaps something wasn't running right in the computer.