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!