Spherical Panoramas

 I made Spherical Panoramas in my Gifted and Talented Digital Media class! The first step I took was taking 10-15 pictures, rotating in a 360 degree turn. Each picture should be overlapped about 15% with the previous picture to create a perfect, seamless final image! Upload the pictures to your computer and edit them with Adobe Camera Raw. Then, using photo merge in Photoshop, I compiled all the images into a Panoramic image. Then, I warped and cropped the panoramic so that it was a perfect rectangle. The next step I took was resizing the image so that it was 5,000 pixels by 5,000 pixels and then in Photoshop go to Filter> Distort> Polar Coordinates. Then my image is a Spherical Panorama! Then, I used the blur, smudge, and stamp tool to make sure no seams are left. Then I feathered and contracted my image to make it a smooth world. After I have perfected the seams, I put a white or black border and finally my final image was done. I made a professional, seamless, beautiful spherical panorama. 

Click here to see an insane 3D image that you can move around in!