Multiple Panorama Automation in Photoshop

Question

My workflow contains creating multiple panoramas in Photoshop one by one. I have multiple folders, each with jpegs that have to be combined into a panorama and saved with a PSD extention.

Photoshop does a good job at producing the panorama, but I waste a lot of time in intervening at the repetitive steps of selecting folders and its contents, opening them in the panorama box and selecting the required panorama options (which includes checking reposition and unchecking blend images together) before photoshop does its photo-merging magic. Also, I waste time in the save dialogue box to save each image after the panorama is generated.

I wanted to know if there's a script that can automate this entire task. So that I provide the parent folder (which has the folders of photos that needed to be stitched) and leave the computer for hours as it processes the photomerge and saving the resultant PSD files without me having to sit next to it. I have a feeling that this is possible because all steps are repetitive.

Old forums have solutions to many similar issues, with wizards creating scripts for the same, but none of the links work now.

Answer 1

Here, I slightly modified this script by Mike Hale. This script will ask for a folder and then will process all subfolders with images. Things to change:

1. Make sure path to your Photoshop Scripts folder is correct (line 2);
2. This script is scanning for .png files, modify the extension in line 24 (folders[i].getFiles('*.png'););
3. PSDs will be saved to each subfolder.

Result (I took some random google images for the test):

var runphotomergeFromScript = true; // must be before Photomerge include
//@includepath "/C/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019/Presets/Scripts/"
//@include "Photomerge.jsx"
//@show include

var psdOpts = new PhotoshopSaveOptions();
psdOpts.embedColorProfile = true;
psdOpts.alphaChannels = true;
psdOpts.layers = true;

(function()
{
    var workFolder = Folder.selectDialog();
    if (workFolder == null) return false;

    var folders = workFolder.getFiles(function(file)
    {
        return file instanceof Folder;
    });

    if (folders.length == 0) return false

    for (var i = 0; i < folders.length; i++)
    {

        var fList = folders[i].getFiles('*.png');

        // override Photomerge.jsx settings. Default is "Auto". Uncomment to override the default.
        //photomerge.alignmentKey = "Auto";
        //photomerge.alignmentKey   = "Prsp";
        //photomerge.alignmentKey   = "cylindrical";
        //photomerge.alignmentKey   = "spherical";
        //photomerge.alignmentKey   = "sceneCollage";
        photomerge.alignmentKey = "translation"; // "Reposition" in layout dialog   

        // other setting that may need to be changed. Defaults below
        photomerge.advancedBlending = false; // 'Blend Images Together' checkbox in dialog
        photomerge.lensCorrection = false; // Geometric Distortion Correction'checkbox in dialog
        photomerge.removeVignette = false; // 'Vignette Removal' checkbox in dialog

        try
        {
            if (fList.length > 1)
            {
                photomerge.createPanorama(fList, false);
            }
        }
        catch (e)
        {
            alert(e + '\nLine: ' + e.line)
        }
        // saving
        var saveFile = {
            name: folders[i].name,
            path: fList[0].parent
        }

        savePSB(saveFile)
        saveTIF(saveFile)
        saveJPG(saveFile)
        savePSD(saveFile)

        activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
    }
})()

function savePSB(data)
{
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
    var descCompatibility = new ActionDescriptor();
    descCompatibility.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID('maximizeCompatibility'), true);
    desc.putObject(charIDToTypeID('As  '), charIDToTypeID('Pht8'), descCompatibility);
    desc.putPath(charIDToTypeID('In  '), new File(data.path + "/" + data.name + ".psb"));
    executeAction(charIDToTypeID('save'), desc, DialogModes.NO);
}; // end of savePSB()

function saveTIF(data)
{
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
    var descOptions = new ActionDescriptor();
    descOptions.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID('BytO'), charIDToTypeID('Pltf'), charIDToTypeID('Mcnt'));
    descOptions.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID('layerCompression'), charIDToTypeID('Encd'), stringIDToTypeID('RLE'));
    desc.putObject(charIDToTypeID('As  '), charIDToTypeID('TIFF'), descOptions);
    desc.putPath(charIDToTypeID('In  '), new File(data.path + "/" + data.name + ".tif"));
    executeAction(charIDToTypeID('save'), desc, DialogModes.NO);
}; // end of saveTIF()

function saveJPG(data)
{
    if (data.path == undefined) return false;
    data.name = data.name == undefined ? activeDocument.name : data.name;
    data.quality == undefined && data.quality = 75

    var options = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb(),
        jpgFile = new File(data.path + '/' + data.name + '.jpg');
    options.format = SaveDocumentType.JPEG;
    options.quality = data.quality;
    activeDocument.exportDocument(jpgFile, ExportType.SAVEFORWEB, options);
}

function savePSD(data)
{
    var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
    var descOptions = new ActionDescriptor();
    descOptions.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID('maximizeCompatibility'), true);
    desc.putObject(charIDToTypeID('As  '), charIDToTypeID('Pht3'), descOptions);
    desc.putPath(charIDToTypeID('In  '), new File(data.path + "/" + data.name + ".psd"));
    executeAction(charIDToTypeID('save'), desc, DialogModes.NO);
} // end of savePSD()