Why Photoshop CS5's photomerge's result immediately disappear?
I have found that if your ruler units are set to "percent", it causes Photomerge to fail as described by the OP, and others in various threads.
I tested this by trying to merge 5 photos with various setttings of RAM use, cache levels, and ruler units, and found that regardless of my success with RAM and cache settings, it always failed when my rulers were set to "percent".
I'm not sure where to bring this to people's attention in the future when they ask about Photomerge problems, short of mentioning it in all the major Photomerge problem threads. Not even sure if that's what was causing most/any problems for people, but it's something to at least rule out when troubleshooting.
Clear Photoshop's Settings File by pressing and holding Ctrl+Shift+Alt immediately after double-clicking on photoshop.exe.
Then you have to set everything back again, but hey... it works!
Remember to save your keyboard shortcuts if you have any custom ones, because they will reset also.
I tried the suggestions above (having same problem with disappearing), and the only way I can get around it was to go through
- load files into stack
- auto-align layers
- auto-blend layers and it achieved the basic same result.
However, I tried ctrl+shift+alt when I opened PS and that didn't solve the problem, nor did opening the files individually and trying photomerge. Other sites I checked suggested updating drivers, but it seemed it was only able to be done with windows/PC computers.
Photomerge is still not operating normally.
I tried the suggestions provided but I found that for all of them you had to work around Photoshop in an inconvenient matter.
If you are using the 64 bit version of CS5 try switching to 32 bit. Worked for me.