Angelika,
Please tell us something about your system: Mac model, OS, RAM, free hard drive space, scratch disc space….
And about the photos: color mode, file sizes, how many photos you are trying to merge…
Do you get an error message?
Does this only happen with certain photos? Is this something "new" that is happening on your system (was it working "before")?
Neil
Hello Neil!
I have a macBook Pro 2.2 GHZ Processor Speed, OS 10.4.11, 2 GB Ram, 50.64 GB free harddrive – I do not know, where to find the information about scratch disc space!?
I have tried 4 images, each 3872×2592 pix, 240 dpi, RGB color, 8 bits channel. No, I do not get any error message, just nothing happens. It is the first time that I try photomerge, so I guess I am doing something wrong. Thanks for taking the time to help.
Angelika
Are these pictures a series of shots that would become a panorama when merged?
do the images have anything in common with each other? Like overlapping objects, the bush on the right in image 1 would match the bush on the left in image 2.
Hello Buko!
yes!
thanks, Angelika
Angelika,
Buko makes a good point. There should be somewhere around 1/3 image overlap (I’m being conservative). The component images should be same focal length, same exposure, same color mode, exact same point of view (use a tripod)…
Neil
to start I would just try merging 2 pictures. Your scratch is on your system drive unless you have an external drive set up as scratch.
Insufficient Scratch space on a separate non-System HD may be the reason for Angelica’s difficulties.
Thanks to everyone, that was helpful! I wanted to open the images from an external harddrive. So now I copied the images on my internal Hd and… it works! Super! Thank you so much everyone!!!
Where would I need to increase the scratch space on my external Hd? It is a 256 GB WD and I have 34.8 GB still available?
34.8 GB free on a 256GB hard drive is flirting with disater. either burn about 150GB to DVD or get a new Hard drive.
35 GB isn’t really enough space.
Ideally, you need to partition the external HD making the first partition at least 60 GB.
Then, in Photoshop’s Prefs., choose that new 60 GB partition as your first Scratch Disk.
Again, thank you very much for advising me so good!
