Tiny Spherical Worlds

New project! Our latest projects in G.T. are called polar & spherical panoramas. Part of the process is to take individual pictures which are kind of overlapping from left to right. Then, in PhotoShop, you would have to put them together. You might be wondering: What's the point of taking multiple images when I could just take picture? Here's why. After taking your pictures and putting them into PhotoShop, you have to bend them in all the different ways in order to get a correct, good-looking final result. You most likely would never be able to do that with just a single picture.

During the making of this project we had to make two different types of images. A polar panorama and a spherical
panorama. The process is pretty similar, but the outcome is very different. In a polar panorama, the bottom of the horizon line (usually land part) is in the middle and resembles a planet. While a spherical panorama looks more like the complete opposite. Where the top of the horizon line (usually the sky) is in the middle and the land is around the edges.


While making these "tiny worlds" my biggest concern is making them look as convincing and realistic as possible. After making your panorama look like a tiny world, there will always be a line where the panorama begins and ends. After that your goals would be getting rid of that line by using tools like the stamp and smudge tool. It also helps to rotate the image when you are finished. Then, if your line doesn't look very convincing, moving it to the bottom or side doesn't make it the center of attention and it's not as noticeable.