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.