![]() ![]() As you can see, you don’t need panoramas to generate tiny planets, you can create them out of single shots too! I took this image from the Overseas Passenger Terminal in Circular Quay. ![]() The second example of blurring I would like to show you is this tiny planet of the opera house. Final touch: add some Gaussian blur (plot twist, a different blur! hehe) to the centre so it appears less pointy.Īnd voilá! Here we have ourselves a seamless – which you can actually purchase here as a print/sticker/tote/pillow/phone case… :).Add a little bit of zoom radial blur to smoothen the outer clouds.Add some more spin radial blur to blend the corners.Add some spin radial blur to the edges of the clouds.Add a layer of zoom radial blur and masked only the desired regions: seam, corners, and centre.In the following video I have illustrated these 7 steps taken to smooth the seam in this particular tiny planet: In order to blur the seam (and those pesky lines that often appear in the corners) I will use the spin blur but I will often add a little bit of zoom blur in another layer afterwards to smoothen the skies. I use both the spin and the zoom blurs for different effects. Don’t worry much about the “Quality” I’ve always left it at “good” and the results look great. The “Amount” slider determines how much blur is applied and “Blur Method” controls whether your pixels are blurred in circles ( spin) or radially ( zoom). A pop up window like the one shown below will appear. You can find this effect by going to the “Filter” menu in Photoshop, the mousing over the “Blur” section, and clicking on “Radial Blur”. Just remember, before you to any distortions, duplicate the tiny planet layer because you will need to mask the blurring only in the desired regions. I have several ways in which I can do this and for this example I am going to focus on using the “Radial Blur” distortions in Photoshop. Now that I like the overall shape of the tiny planet I need to fix that horrible seam and make it smooth. The difference in the tiny planet (right) is astounding already with such small changes! I have decreased the amount of water visible at the bottom of the image, and I have stretched the buildings to make them look taller. I am going to achieve these effects by stretching the square image as you can see below (left). I would like the buildings to be a lot more elongated, reaching out towards the edge of the tiny planet.I would prefer the water in the centre to be much smaller.Instantly I notice two things I want to improve: In this next image you can see the panorama squished into a square (left) and the resulting tiny planet (right). ![]() Once I’ve picked an image to make a tiny planet I will go through these steps to implement the distortion. I took it from Mrs Macquire’s Chair near the Sydney Botanical Gardens and it was one of the best sunsets I have EVER seen! The first example is a tiny planet made from the following image (actually, it’s 18 images stitched together as shown in my panorama merging tutorial). In one of my previous tutorials I go through the process of how to make tiny planets from scratch, so if you are not familiar with the steps go check it out! In this tutorial I am going to focus on what to do once you’ve made a tiny planet and the seam is very obvious and harsh – spoiler alert: it involves lots of blurring! :) Tiny planets are one of my favourite things to create with panoramic images (and non panoramic too!). Click through to read some tips & tricks about how I make my tiny planets in particular, how I use blurring to fix the seam :) It is a simple process that achieves stunning results! When creating tiny planets, making them seamless is the hardest part.
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