small camp

thanks all!

SoaringPhoto, click the links in the photo description, or google "polar panorama small planet tutorial"... I can't invent that wheel any better than it's been done already...

Hi Dylan, thanks!

The people didn't have to stay still except for when they themselves were in the panorama. And I took the pictures with enough overlap so that I could choose which people to cut between in each overlapping section. (I hand cut and pasted the sections with no transparency in the final layer, so rather than having ghosting if I wasn't careful, it would be someone with two elbows or a notch out of their shirt or something strange like that.)

The only REALLY tricky part was getting the last photo to line up with the first one, because you're right: by the time it was all done the people had moved a fair amount. If I remember right, either there was a tiny bit of space between the two people (which makes it easy!) or I just overlapped the last person a bit farther over the first one.

Hi Nikki,

as I said in my email to you, the tutorial has already been written countless times. I gave links to tutorials in my photo description above, and more links throughout the comments. I answered specific questions in the comments as well. Google "polar panorama tiny planet" if what I've said or linked to already isn't enough help. If you have any specific questions you can email me, but I don't see the need to write yet another tutorial for the process. Good luck with your yearbook photo!

Kelly

Hi Wilsx4,

The tutorial has already been written countless times. I gave links to tutorials in my photo description above, and more links throughout the comments. I answered specific questions throughout the comments as well. Google "polar panorama tiny planet" if what I've said or linked to already isn't enough help. If you have any specific questions you can Flickr-mail me, but I don't see the need to write yet another tutorial for the process. Good luck with your sports team photo!

thank you all! I can't take credit for the idea - lifted it from other Flickr folks - but it was sure a lot of fun to do! I hope I have a chance to do another group of people like this someday!

thanks!

ooh, so cool! that's exactly what I wanted, to be able to pass on what I've learned from others. Please post your result, I'd love to see it!

Hi Ajonestreet - I think I said this once already, but I can't find it either, so I'll say it again! I had to take a separate photo of the grass (from a chair looking down) and then after I'd turned the panorama into a 'planet' I put the grass photo in the middle and used Photoshop's filter>distort>"bulge" (can't remember if that's the name - the opposite of pinch. Maybe spherize?) to make it look globe-like... I might have had to apply that filter more than once. Then I tweaked the colors to match the photo, then took an eraser tool and erased it jaggedly around the edges until it kind of matched the grass, and tweaked the colors some more.... hope that helps!

thanks and good luck!

thank you!

Hi Nikondreamer, you just need any graphics program that can do polar transformations. I'm guessing GIMP does, and it's free, but I haven't used it. Photoshop Elements will also work and is far cheaper than the full Photoshop. Try googling "Gimp polar panorama tutorial " (or similar with whatever program you are interested in trying).... chances are if it can be done, someone has done it.