Landscape panoramas - workflow

[aeronic]

Hello,

I was after some advice about what people used for their workflow for creating panorama images (stitched together).

I have about 7 images (RAW) and used LR3 and PS5 to create the image below.

I selected the images in LR, imported to PS, and created the panorama there. Then back into LR for finishing touches (although I abandoned this step, as the computer slowed down to snail's pace).

However, I found the process unwieldy, very demanding on my PC even though it's a quad-core with 8gb ram.

Any suggestions on how the process can be improved, specifically with advice on when to downsize / convert to JPG, and when to apply lens correction. Thanks.




panorama 2011-12-18.jpg by aero7, on Flickr

 

[Craikeybaby]

I do everything in Lightroom, syncing the settings to all images, then send to PS to merge into the panorama and keep the TIFF in Lightroom.

 

[StewartR]

Your workflow is pretty much the same as mine, except that I use PT Assembler to do the stitching. So I do the global exposure / contrast / saturation stuff in LR; synch the changes so that they're identical on all images; export to JPEG; use PTA to create the pano as a TIFF or JPEG; import to LR for final tweaks (e.g. cropping).

PS Your choice of subject and viwpoint is pretty much the same as mine too! But you had better weather...