More on mini-worlds, or polar panoramas as they’re known. I’ve just found a flickr group for them.
140 Brilliant Polar Pictures
These are wonderful images. I’ve tried making images like this, in fact there’s a MiniWorlds page on this site with my five.
I found the instructions in the 27 February 2009 edition of MacUser UK. In short, the instructions are:
- Start with a panoramic image
- In Photoshop, resize it to a square image (I’m using 5000×5000)
- Invert the image (rotate 180 degrees)
- Apply the Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates with the “Rectangular to Polar” option selected
- Spend the rest of the time cleaning up the joins!
Mini-Worlds
I’ve added a page of mini-worlds, panoramic images wrapped into a circle, that I’ve created in Photoshop and used on my Picture of the Day site.