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### 7.7.36 Digital Camera/Stitch

With the Stitch function you can combine several photos to create a panoramic image.

With Add Image(s) you can add the images you want to stitch to the image list. Usually, however, it is easier if you select the necessary images in the Browse panel (chapter 5.4) and call the Stitch function via the context menu of Browse. Then the selected images are automatically taken over.

There are two basic working modes:

- Create Layers
Here the individual images are only aligned against each other. As a result, you get a document that contains a layer for each of your images. These layers are not blended, so you will usually see hard edges between them.
In this new document you can now either change the alignment or make other minor corrections. When you are done with this, a second call to Stitch will combine this layered image into one (blended) overall image.
- Create Sum Layer
With Create Sum Layer you get a document with a single layer containing the panorama as a result.

There are only two options. Crop automatically removes gaps in the result caused by aligning the frames. If you have Create Layers enabled, this option is not available, as it would only unnecessarily restrict post-processing. Sequence fixed is a pure optimization. It indicates that the individual images are already specified in the order in which they must be assembled. This makes the calculation of the panorama a bit faster. In case of doubt, however, you should rather deactivate Sequence fixed.

General notes:

- For a panorama, the source images should always overlap by about a third.
- When you take the source images, there should not be too much movement in the images, e.g. heavy road traffic or the wave motion of a sea are bad.