Ever have one of those shots that looks pretty good but, no matter how much you play with it, it just doesn’t seem to cut it. Well, there is one thing you could try that, for some reason, always seems to improve the look of an image. Make it a Pano.
The original Image
After Pano treatment
I used to do this in Photoshop by grabbing the crop tool but now there’s a faster way using Lightroom.
The way that I check out the pano possibilities with my images is to create a custom print template. To make the template, I just chose an existing single-image template and made sure it’s set to landscape. Then I set the Cell Size to 3″ high by 9″ wide, the Margins to .5″ around the sides and top and 1.5″ for the bottom and the Zoom to Fill option checked in the Image Settings panel.
Then I saved the changes as a User Template so I can always recall it when needed. To use the template, just go to the Library and select the image or images that you want to try out as panos. Now click on the Print panel and select the template. Now when you click on the thumbnail for you image, it appears as a pano in the main panel.
You can use the mouse to move the image up and down in the print area to get the best composition. If you like what you see, you can go back to the Develop panel and make the crop, print the image, or print it to an image file.
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Excellent tip! And I like you logo too. Is that a new one?