Spherical Panoramas

These are two examples of Spherical Panoramas that I made in my G.T. class. Spherical panoramas are very similar to polar panoramas. The difference between them is that they have different perspectives.

I first had to search what a spherical panorama was and how to actually create one. Then you look for a good location with an interesting horizon line. You then take ten photos from left to right with an even amount of overlapping, all vertically oriented. Using Camera Raw in Adobe Bridge I edited each photo too make them brighter and make them look more realistic. I then used Photoshop to merge the photos together and resized the photos to a shape of a square.

We then took a portrait photography session to make people get the feeling that were on top of the world! We then edited the portraits in Camera Raw using Adobe Bridge. Then in Photoshop, I used the Quick Selection Tool to cut myself out and paste it in my finished spherical panorama. Last but not least I created a shadow affect by copying and changing the size of the portrait layer, lowering the exposure to black and adjusting the capacity to about 50%.