Polar Panoramas

To create a Polar Panorama, that are like my first one, follow these simple steps!

1. Find a nice spot for your panorama, interesting horizons look the best.

2. To take the pictures for the panorama you take at least 10 pictures rotating 360 degrees.

3. After editing your pictures, you upload them into photoshop and merge your photo’s.

4. Next you need to resize the image to a perfect square, make sure your width is the same as your height.

5. Then rotate your image 180 degrees.

After distort your image with Polar Coordinates and you will have your finished Polar Panorama.

These steps are the same as the Spherical Panorama, but you have to rotate the Image 180 degrees. There are also several new word definitions that we learned.

Composite - Multiple rectangular pieces combined & distorted to become triangular in 1 finished image.
Polar - A circular image that resembles a planet; the horizon line creates a North and South pole.
Spherical - A distorted panorama that becomes a circular image with the earth becoming the outline.
Panorama - 10-15 vertical images taken in a 360 degrees rotation with a central horizon then merged.

As you can see in my second panorama I had to edit my self into the picture. The process was generally easy, and the instructions were easy to follow.
First open your photo in Photoshop, make sure you copy the image so it unlocks.
Then, to start you must access the Quick Selection tool. To find the Quick Selection tool, go to the toolbar and click on the fourth tool down. Select the brush size you want.
To select the parts for your image, you “paint” over them
To clean it up, click on the minus button, and “paint” over the parts you do not want to keep.
When that step is completed, go to refine edge to contract or feather the selection
Copy and Paste the selection onto another layer.