Polar Panoramas

Steps to a Polar Panorama


These are my Polar Panoramas that I created in my 2nd period G.T. media class! Want to know how to make them? First you need find a great place, and take 10-15 vertical images overlapping 10-15% to get a larger image and get sky and ground. Then, using Adobe bridge you can edit your pictures making them go from good to great! Next, Go into photoshop go to automate pick your pictures and click PhotoMerge, the images should now look like a panorama. Stretch the height of the image so that the image is a perfect square. Also rotate the image 180 degrees and apply the Polar filter to make the image wrap around into a sphere. Finally, Rotate the planet the way you like it, and Adjust the contrast and colors clean up the sky and the edges where the left and right border of the image came together.

Panoramic World Terms:

Composite- A thing made up of several parts like two or more pictures combined to make one picture.

Polar- When a picture is wrapper around to make thee North and South pole meet making it in shape of the world.

Spherical - A picture that is round and shaped in a sphere

Panorama- The whole view of the observers surroundings

Quick Selection Tool

Open your Photo in Photoshop and Select the Quick Selection Tool or press W on your keyboard. Then, start selecting the parts of the image you want to keep, you can make the tool smaller by pressing the right bracket ] or bigger hitting the left bracket [. Once you select everything you want hit the minus button to take away those little in between spaces you can then press shift+command+1 which will deselect your main subject and select everything around it. Finally, hit the little circle colored half white half black at the bottom of your layer palette which is the layer adjustment tool hit Hue and Saturation then adjust your color of your background for a great pic!

Spherical Panoramas

These are two of my Spherical Panoramas that I created! We had to Take 2 sets of 10-15 images of our surroundings going 360 degrees around. We had to over lap by a certain amount which was 10-15%. Then we edited the images in Adobe Camera Raw, and put them together using Photoshop's PhotoMerge plugin.
     
Next, Go into Photoshop and open your 360 finished panorama. You need to stretch the height of the image so that the image is a perfect square. Apply the Polar filter to make the image wrap around into a sphere. Sometimes there will be a line to show where it joins. To get ride of the line use the stamp or smudge tool to try and get rid of it. If you can still kind of see it rotate the planet the way you like it or to make the line on the bottom.Adjust the contrast and colors and add a background and there you have it!Your very own Spherical Polar panel.

All about me!

What's up? Want to know a little more about me? Well here you go!

My name is Kaylee, I would describe myself as wacky, weird, funny, and a clown. When I am not playing sports I am usually goofing off. I love animals especially dogs. At my house I have 5 dogs, 3 love birds, 1 cat, and 3 fishes. My dad's dog is trained in protection and bite work. My mom's dog is trained in search and rescue so is mine, Cool right? My most favorite sport is soccer. I use to play on three teams. I was on two girl teams and one boys team. I have been playing ever since I was little.

Hobbies Hmm... I don't really have much hobbies. I play soccer and usually like to go fishing. What I like to do? I love to make people happy no matter what it takes. I believe that you should smile no matter how hard or how bad life is. Another really cool saying I have heard about is A day without laughter is a day wasted. With me I am always laughing and smiling. Most of my family members say there is never a dull moment with me around. I love hearing that!

People might be wondering What would this goofball (me) want to do when I grow up? When I grow up I want to get a job with google. I want to have a job with computers because I seem to be very good with computers. If that fails I want to become a teacher. I want to be a P.E. teacher for elementary students. I seem to be very good wit younger children. Also I would make a terrific teacher because I love helping people.

Final Photomontages

Here are my two finished photomontages that were inspired by the famous photographer David Hockey, who first created what he called "Joiners". I used a digital camera to take multiple pictures of an inspiring location. Then I used Adobe Camera Raw to batch-edit all of my pictures. Next I used Photoshop to stack, twist, and turn all of my photos into one awesome picture!

David Hockney is an English Painter, Stage designer, Draughtsman, Printmaker, and Photographer. He was an important contributor to the Pop art movement  in the 1960’s. He is a 76 year old and lives in England. Joiners are what David Hockney called photo collages in the 1980s. This Piece is called The Desk by David Hockney made on July 1st, 1984. The Desk is also an example of  cubism.  David Hockney also produced Photomontages.

Magazine Cover

This is my Magazine cover that I created in my period 2 GT class. During fall of 2013 at Kapa'a Middle School. The cover describes who I am and how I love soccer. It also has many layers which can be created in Photoshop. It was really fun creating the magazine cover because it is all about you! Creating the magazine cover gave you a chance to be unique, do what ever you want with it, and stand out.