The best candidates will be images of landscapes, in which both sides left and right are quite similar (so that when the distortion occurs they mostly match). The first step is an easy one: choose the image you want to turn into a tiny planet. I use Photoshop CC to create my tiny planets but I suspect you will be able to use other software too, even my Nexus 5 phone can create them (called panospheres)! Today I am going to teach you how to make a tiny planet, and some tips and tricks that I find really useful in the process. I have become quite obsessed with tiny planets recently, I think they look super funky! The distortion in the resulting image helps convey the idea of a cozy private world, in which anything is possible and the sky is the only limit! :) Opera House Tiny Planet Click through to find out how to create your own tiny planet in Photoshop in just 6 simple steps :) It’s easy peasy and very addictive hehe. Handy Photo has done a good job of blending the left and right edges of the picture to make a circular image (here’s a tip: straighten the photo first so that the horizon is at the same height at both sides), and I’ve got a striking picture that only took a few moments to do.Would you like to learn the secret art of making tiny planets? They are magical and enchanting. 05 The finished pictureĪnd here’s the result! I think this is actually pretty good. And because I’ve got Photo Stream set up on my iPhone and in Aperture on my Mac, it will automatically appear in my Aperture library. I’m going to save the finished picture back to my iPhone’s photo ‘gallery’ (or ‘Camera Roll’, to use the correct iPhone term). I want that big lone tree nearer the top of the ‘planet’, so I click the settings icon in the bottom left corner of the screen, tap the rotation gadget and turn the planet to the angle I want. In fact there’s only one more thing I need to do. There’s nothing for you to do except tap the button – your ‘Tiny Planet’ is generated in an instant. That’s what Handy Photo calls them, anyway, which is probably a bit more informative than ‘Polar Panoramas’, which really describes the process as you’d apply it in Photoshop. You then spin the arc of buttons to find the one you want – it’s the Filters button I want, second from the top. You can open any picture from your photo library in Handy Photo, and to view the options you tap the ‘hand’ icon top right. You shouldn’t have to send your images to your phone to get exciting image effects, but that’s what I’ve started doing. This polar panorama was created using Handy Photo, which is only one of many inventive and exciting mobile apps. Smart device apps are cheap, simple and often jaw-droppingly effective. In my opinion, desktop app developers need to do a real reality check. My point is that I’ve got a a £1.49 app running on a mobile phone doing something that Photoshop can’t – or at least not with such spellbinding simplicity. I could create a polar panorama from any of the shots in my photo library taken on one of my regular D-SLR cameras. I can access my the photo library on my Mac on my iPhone because I use Photo Stream and sync my photo library via iTunes. I didn’t have to use a picture shot on my iPhone, though. In fact I took the original picture my iPhone, too, and here it is. The polar panorama I’ve created here, though, was produced in about thirty seconds from a single everyday photograph using a £1.49 app on my iPhone. Usually, you create them by first shooting a 360-degree panorama as a sequence of overlapping shots and then combining them using Photoshop or some dedicated panoramic stitching software. Polar panoramas are ordinary landscapes turned into miniature spherical planets.
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