. While Lightroom is faster for a "quick stitch," DxO allows you to maintain incredible detail in the corners of each frame before they are merged. By the time the images hit the stitching engine, they are geometrically "perfect," which often results in fewer stitching artifacts in complex areas like tree branches or architectural lines. Pro Tip for PhotoLab Users
If you have moving subjects (people walking, waves crashing) across frame overlaps, DxO handles it surprisingly well. In the (after stitching), look for the Panorama tool tab. You can manually adjust the stitching seams to select which source frame provides the data for a moving object.
If you have complex panoramas with buildings overlapping trees (where the auto-stitch fails), you need PTGui. But for 95% of landscape work, DxO is better than Lightroom because of the optical corrections applied before the stitch.
Select all the panorama frames in the Filmstrip (Command+A or Ctrl+A).
: It ensures the sky doesn't have "bands" of light and dark where the frames overlap.
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