Author: chris

Little Planet Light House, originally uploaded by Jeremy_Schultz.

More on mini-worlds, or polar panoramas as they’re known. I’ve just found a flickr group for them.

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:

1. Start with a panoramic image
2. In Photoshop, resize it to a square image (I’m using 5000×5000)
3. Invert the image (rotate 180 degrees)
4. Apply the Filter>Distort>Polar Coordinates with the “Rectangular to Polar” option selected
5. Spend the rest of the time cleaning up the joins!