Color of Place Tutorial

If you’re interested in knowing how I created the images  in my Color of Place series, be sure to check out this article in Adobe’s Create! magazine. They featured my work and included a video that I recorded to demonstrate my process. Enjoy!

If you prefer to go directly to the video tutorial, you can use this link (Color of Place Tutorial).

Or, here are the steps that I used:

• Select 50 images that best represent a location’s colors. 
• In Adobe Photoshop, open the 50 images as 16-bit PSD files and resize them to a uniform height (if necessary). 
• Run the Path Blur filter twice on each image and save the files. 
• In each blurred image, select the area you want to use as a colored stripe in the final panorama.
• To preview the 50 colored stripes as a single panorama, import them into Lightroom Classic, and use survey view to order them in an aesthetically pleasing way. 
• Export the files from Lightroom, adding a two-digit sequence to the beginning of each filename so it’s easier to recreate their order in the next step. 
• In Photoshop, create a new document and add guides and margins for reference. Drag and drop the images into the open Photoshop document and distribute the stripes to form the panorama. If you have second thoughts about the arrangement you made in step 5, you can reorder the stripes, each of which is on its own layer, now.
• If desired, merge the layers and run the Path Blur filter again. 
• Finally, add a border, and save the completed panorama. 

Click here to download a .zip file of the Action that I created to automate the process. (While you may want to customize the action with your own settings, I thought it might be helpful for reference.)

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