Mini 5 Pro Drone generated pano (21 images) vs Photoshop Pano (21 images)

[Dale D]

I have just worked for the past 3 hours on these 2 images! It took 3 calls to Adobe support and final support call was an hour. Essentially, I shot the pano and allowed the drone to generate the image, then tried to process a similar image manually in Photoshop. The drone generated image was much better in my opinion. For anyone needed a step by step process in Photoshop, here it is.
Adobe Photoshop 2026>
File>
Automate>Photomerge>
Cyindrical>
Browse>
select files (JPG)>
hit "OK."
first image is from drone, 2nd image is from manual development. I co

 

[Riptide]

crop the one you made to the same frame as the DJI one and then compare

 

[GeorgiaPI]

Not too shabby. I have worked with stitching my share with various cams and PhotoShop CS6. Did you shoot it RAW or will it let you?