Reader Tutorial: Making Little Planets in PhotoshopListThumbs
Reader Tutorial: Making Little Planets in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to create little planets using a regular photograph or a panoramic one and Photoshop. It's very a very simple technique but with a really cool end result.
Before we start let's take a look at the final result!
Step 1
Let's start with a regular picture. Just open it at Photoshop.
Step 2
Using the Crop Tool, let's resize the pic as bellow.
Step 3
Go to Image>Image Size and resize the picture making the width and height even as you can see bellow. Don't forget to unmark the "Constrain Proportions" option.
Step 4
Now that you have a squared photo go to Image>Rotate Canvas>180º.
Step 5
Go to Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates and select the option "Rectangular to Polar".
Step 6
Now you just need to rotate as you like and also do some treatment to remove the failures. As you can see, the right side of the pic get together with the left side, forming this failure at the planet. However, when you select the picture, make sure that the sides of them are alike and check if the horizon line is completely in horizontal, because that will minimize the failure.
Step 7
Using the Clone Stamp Tool and the Patch Tool you will be able to remove the failures.
Now we will check out how to do that with a Panoramic photo!
Steps 1, 3 and 4
Make the width and height and rotate it 180º.
Step 5
Apply the Polar Coordinates.
Step 7
Remove the failures.
Another Way to use the Polar Coordinates
Try to use the Polar Coordinates without rotating the image in 180º, so skip step 4. Check out the result:
Cropping it and removing the failures we have:
Other Samples
Hope you liked it! ;)
About the author
My name is Tariana Mara. I'm a photographer of Panoramic images from Sao Paulo. You can check out more about my work at my portfolio or following me on twitter @tarianamara.
46 Comments
Great technique!
wooooooooooooooow!!!great!!
Thanks for the tutorial I have always wanted to know how to that effect.
Haha! This is cool. Never thought of this.
Great post, i was wondering about this kind of pictures!
Thank you!
nice :)
THIS IS SOME SERIOUSLY SICK SHIT!!
I already knew how to do the planet, but I've never seen or thought about the "Tube" result. It looks really great.
Very nice tutorial :)
Existe um plugin do PS que faz isso aí também (acho que dão o nome disso de Stereographic Projection, ou algo do tipo)! Flaming Pear, se não me engano...Mas bem bacana essa outra maneira de executar! :)
nice, but how can I prevent that their is a midpoint in my image?
Fantastic!!!
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice
wow, awesome tutorial!
congrats to Tariana for your excellent work!
cheers!
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs106.snc1/4908_94900749095...
chicago bean :)
Cool!
Been looking for a tutorial about this one for a while. Here's my result, if any are interested: http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7450/noexploration.png
Thanks!
You can use the Filters>Other>Offset to create a seamless photo before converting it to a planet, I find it easier.
removing the failures is not that easy with clouds :(
Love it, I'll try to create my own planet.
Great, thank you!
Very simple until you get to the 'removing failures bit'!
My attempt here:
http://adour1.deviantart.com/art/Tricycle-127256863
LJ
Awesome outcome, I don't think I've ever used the polar coordinates filter before =P
cool.............................Making Little Planets on night:-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eggchandrika/3661470221/
The last one is awesome!
if you posted this article one week sooner I would've got a 10 in photograph...
superb..i jst luv it
here is my result - http://makesomethingcooleveryday.blogspot.com/2009/06/day-48.html
los angeles is a planet? what do you think....
lovely =)
Nice tutorial! I've added it to our database on www.toptuts.com
Awesome this one tooo..man you are a genius!!!
Respect,
BB.X
Very cool! Last result kick's ass! :D
Awesome & Thank you for share
supercool!
awesome gonna try this later!
GOOD WORK
Can't wait to use these tools! thanks
thanks! so easy!
this is mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3r1c/3703861156/
Here's my result: http://www.flickr.com/photos/buccianti/3621869254/sizes/o/
simple steps but cool effect!
Waaaa!!!
it's cool n awesome!!!!!!!!!
great Tutorial very helpful!!
Thanks for tutorial !
cool
this is so good :D
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO amazinggg!!!
really thanks so much!
the result is unbelieve!
muy buen tutorial, facil, rapido y eficaz... Gracias!!!
:) <3
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