Episode 3: Photoshopping Tiny Planets

11. Jul, 2009 4 Comments .


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Episode 3: Photoshopping Tiny Planets [ 4:00 ] Download

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.

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  • http://www.PhotoExtremist.com/ PhotoExtemist

    Nice job! I like your advanced tutorials. This video was smooth and well done. Do you know about Stereographic planets?

  • http://www.photoguides.net Ash Davies

    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

  • http://photoextremist.com PhotoExtremist

    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/

  • http://www.ademaweb.nl jjeroen

    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?