Episode 3: Photoshopping Tiny Planets
11. Jul, 2009 
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Episode 3: Photoshopping Tiny Planets [4:00m]: Download (3473)
Let’s not forget the podcast version
Tiny Planets are amazing little things that are surprisingly easy to create. All you need is a panoramic photo, Photoshop, the most basic of understandings and a few minutes.
Here then is a guide to help you make Tiny Planets of your very own.
If the video guide is a bit too quick for your liking, there’s also a text and image step by step guide for you to follow.
Thanks again to mm_leones from flickr for letting me use his photo.
He also has plenty more panoramic images in his collection.
hegarty_david from flickr has also offered his 360 degrees panoramas to be used and most of them will work quite nicely.
Nice job! I like your advanced tutorials. This video was smooth and well done. Do you know about Stereographic planets?
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Ash Davies Reply:
November 13th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Thanks. I’m glad you like them.
I’ve not actually heard of Stereographic planets. From what i can find with google though they’re exactly the same as these tiny planets
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PhotoExtremist Reply:
November 14th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Actually they are different. The ones people make in photoshop usually come out really distorted in the middle and on the edges. If you take an entire 360×180 pano and then stitch and project it as stereographic (not polar) then that problem is solved.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=stereographic&w=all
http://photoextremist.com/2009/09/how-to-take-360×180-degree-stereographic-planet-panoramas/
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I tried this by exporting a RAW image from lightroom. But most of the filter buttons where grayed out. When I exported the image first to JPEG and then tried it, it worked well. Can you tell me why?
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