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Turn Panoramas into Planets

photojojo.com — Tutorial at Photojojo shows you how to use the Photoshop Polar Coordinates filter to turn a Panorama or Landscape photo into a really amazing planet. Examples of San Francisco, New York, and Venice included.

Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 28, 2006

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  • grunherz5x5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"Turn your panoramas into Kuiper Belt Objects!"

  • uidzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8... unless of course you turn your panorama into Pluto.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Guess you should look at an article before you cry dupe, eh?

    These tutorials are not similar.
  • dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Kinda reminds me of the planets in Spore.
  • grunherz5x5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Neat.

    If you want to make realistic looking planets in Photoshop, Lunar Cell from Flaming Pear is a Photoshop Plugin that actually makes realistic planets.

    http://www.flamingpear.com/lunarcell.html

    Pretty useless unless you're making mattes for sci-fi scenes, but a cool time killer for a rainy day, kinda like Bryce.

    Not free though.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.deviantart.com/view/31978224/
  • fatcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heres some i made in GIMP from Halo 2
    http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5225/cityplantfg8.png
    http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8043/planetcoagxa0.png
  • TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A pretty smart technique, I'm sure you could turn this into a PS action (or whatever they call them) as well.
  • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So if you applied this filter to Super Mario 64, you'd get Super Mario Galaxy?
  • ChewyChewbacca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 My question is how do exactly do you photograph it to turn out right?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can anyone remember the Digg article where you could create real photos of cities that looked like little models using a special lens and some trickery?
  • SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was just about to say the same thing.
  • nickgray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This rocks!
  • griz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Completely different type of planet and different technique. Similar title, but that's about it.
  • thetshirtblog, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Undigg this so it can go back to 1337 diggs!!!!!1
  • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's creepy looking? Have you seen the last episode of Diggnation? (No I'm not talking about Alex and Kevin)
  • pweintz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um... those look terrible.
  • superamit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Probably this: http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/
  • pentomino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd rather see my city projected on the inside of a tube, so I could see what it would look like inside a space station using rotation for gravity.
  • Wisgary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks good, but they do have some distortions at some points which just look weird. Especially the SF one.
  • gambl0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is a really cool technique. The NYC and mountain examples are amazing!
  • colinm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Paint Shop Pro 9 version:

    Open panorama.
    Image, resize, switch lock aspect ratio off, don't resize horizontally, set vertical height to horizontal height, OK.
    Image, rotate, free rotate, 180 degrees, OK.
    Effects, distortion effects, polar coordinates, rectangular to polar, edge mode: repeat, OK.
  • kombizz, on 06/01/2008, -0/+0love to learn!
  • tao52nyc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree - I think it's a bit creepy-looking....
  • teraflopz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0but this one is even more realistic (uses optical tweaks though, not photoshopping): http://www.discover.com/issues/jul-06/rd/toys/
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2i saw this on digg before, but it seemed like the other one was better. but maybe it is the same
  • alyeska41, on 03/15/2008, -0/+0Thank you for the wonderful tutorial, this technique is addictive and the results are so much fun.
  • panda27513, on 02/20/2008, -0/+0I'd rather see my city as a bad tube, so I guess I could see what it would look like inside a space station apllying the rotation for gravity?
    http://www.matlocktheartist.com
  • Moopy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This has already been posted and been on front page before, and not the link 3 comments above.
  • ImNotQuiteJack, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1AMAZING! Simple, quick techniques for making some really creative images.
  • Moopy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This is this best how to make a planet anything that's been on digg.
  • bastianmk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0very cool!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1this is totally useless and pointless.

    reported as Lame.
  • JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -19/+7This has been on the homepage at least twice already.
    http://digg.com/design/Photoshop_howto:_Make_your_very_own_planet.

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