After all the photo shooting, I tried to merge all the photos together. At the very beginning, I decided to merged the photos in a collage only. It means that no any special retouch is made between the boundaries of the photos next to the others. But, it is just what the normal person done, like the work of Nathan Road by Kenneth Lo.

Also, with the great power of Google Map (Street View), I would like to fight with it. I would like to do something looks like with my own hand and my own shoot photos to show the human power is not weak than the Google (the Google car with cameras...)

As the result, I decided to merge them with no boundaries, like the panorama which looks like really one piece of photos. But, it is a huge job needed so many time to finish. I would like to do this to show my hard working and the great Photoshop technique I learned through the daily practice.

Hundreds of hours are really needed to finish this task as no default process can be applied. There is some function like the Photomerge in Photoshop, but it is not effective in my case. I have tried it but some of elements of the road is auto disappeared. The main reason is I am doing a panorama. Those functions of auto photo-merge are designed for panorama normally. As the result, I do the whole job number by number with the basic functions in Photoshop, like the “Selection tools” and the “eraser”. I have finished this huge process in around 3 weeks. Also, it shows that it is totally impossible for doing the other side of King's Road in the limited time.

During this heavy time-spending task, I learn much more about Photoshop. A lecture told me before that Photoshop contains lot of function (and adding more and more in the updated function year by year). You would only use just some basic functions normally. Rest of them you may not know what it is. Now, I know much more about Photoshop. For example, the differences between “Merge Layers” and “Flattened” the image. Also, there is a limitation of range of the Photoshop. For the normal Photoshop file in “psd” format, the maximum range is 30,000 x 30,000 pixels. And there is a extra format in Photoshop called “psb”, it maximum range is 300,000 x 300,000 pixels. As the result, it is a learning process too whiles the photo-merge of the whole King's Road.

A part of the mergered photo (click to enlarge)

Actually it is a product by 8 pieces photos (click to enlarge)