Polar Panoramas

 Here are two of my three finished Polar Panoramas. I took about 15-20 pictures of my surroundings. I did this by standing in one place, taking a picture and then rotating a little bit so that there is about a 15% overlap. I ended up turning in a full 360 degree turn. I then used Adobe Camera Raw to edit and brighten my pictures and after that I compiled them into a Panoramic image using Adobe Photo Shop. The next step I took was resizing my panorama so that it was 5,000 by 5,000 pixels. After it was resized I rotated it 180 degrees so that it was upside down. Apply the Polar Coordinates Filter to your image to make it a "world". Next, I used the blur, smudge and stamp tools to clean up any seams to make my world look nice and smooth all the way around! Finally, I feathered my image to clean up the edges and copied and pasted it into a new page where I gave it either a black or white background.

How I added a picture of me into my world was pretty easy. First, I had a friend take a picture looking down on me (my friend stood on a chair and tilted the camera downward). After, I edited the picture of me in Adobe Camera Raw. Then, I used the Quick Selection Tool in Photo Shop. With the tool, I outlined my entire body and deleted everything else so that it was just me in the picture. I then cleaned up the boarder of my body by smoothing it out so I didn't look rigid. I was then left with a smooth cut out picture of me! I made the cut out bigger and placed it on my finished world!