Tiny Planet Effect

[FoP Staff]

Moderator edit:

I have uploaded a basic tutorial on how to make these tiny planets to Resources. Here is a link

To sum it up in a few sentences:

1. Import your image in Photoshop (or Gimp)
2. Image > Image Size > uncheck "constrain aspect ratio" and make the height of the image as large as its width
3. Image > Image Rotation > 180º
4. Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates > Rectangular to Polar
5. Process your tiny planet, using the healing brush, cloning tool etc. to deal with the seam.

Done.

Tip: Choose scenery with high structures in it, be it towers, trees, anything that sticks out. With a flat horizon you end up with nothing much to see. And also make sure your left and right edge of the image is well aligned so you get a neat and tidy seam.

(Below is the original post by gerards artzone (who is long gone)
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This effect can be achieved with Photoshop and GIMP, among other things.

 

[West Coast Birder]

Hi Gerard, I've seen photos like this but wasn't sure what PP was used to generate it.

Can you write a tutorial on it? It would be a valuable resource for us.

 

[milo]

very cool

 

[Greyswan]

Mini planets! I have some too.

View attachment 3503

Love the water effect!

 

[fotoi]

Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta. Tiny planet made from image below in Photoshop CS6.

 

[96whiteknight]

From 2009, over 13 years ago.


EJ8 pano by Michael Bartley, on Flickr


EJ8 planet by Michael Bartley, on Flickr

 

[fotoi]

Atlanta (done with Photoshop CS6). Original below.

 

[SkedAddled]

Planet Packard

 

[Mikbone]

how is this possible?

 

[96whiteknight]

From 2009, over 13 years ago.


EJ8 pano by Michael Bartley, on Flickr


EJ8 planet by Michael Bartley, on Flickr

All the cars were parked in a circle around me.
That top pic is kinda trippy when you think about it.

 

[SethB]

Some self-portraits:

A tiny planet, aka stereographic projection, of a 360x180 spherical image


A cylindrical projection

 

[SethB]

A composite

 

[SkedAddled]

That’s a good one, Craig.

Thank you, Levina.

It's a 360-degree panorama taken from a rooftop area of Detroit's old Packard assembly plant.
I'd seen something about the 'planetary' effect soon after my visit, so I decided to give it a try,
and I was very pleased with the result. Downtown Detroit's skyline can be seen in the far East.

It's worth noting that this vantage likely could not be replicated now, as the site has been under
demolition and abatement procedures for several years at this time.

 

[Mikbone]

Thank you, Levina.

It's a 360-degree panorama taken from a rooftop area of Detroit's old Packard assembly plant.
I'd seen something about the 'planetary' effect soon after my visit, so I decided to give it a try,
and I was very pleased with the result. Downtown Detroit's skyline can be seen in the far East.

It's worth noting that this vantage likely could not be replicated now, as the site has been under
demolition and abatement procedures for several years at this time.

Good effort ....how many images did you have to stitch together? The resulting file size must have been very large?

 

[SkedAddled]

Good effort ....how many images did you have to stitch together? The resulting file size must have been very large?

Thanks, my friend.

Best I can recall:

It was a Canon EOS XTi APS-C camera with an 18-55mm kit lens at 18mm.

So, however many shots it took to get a proper pano with enough overlap
to effectively stitch it together. It was an extremely wide image, by a standard height.

Reduced and saved at a 720-pix height, the stitched pano is 5937-pix wide.
Everything was done with full-size images before reducing for posting, so the working sizes
were considerably larger.

 

[SkedAddled]

Levina, I've spotted an omission: actual content.

 

[SkedAddled]

Oh yes, I see the download now.

That's an odd way for the forum to deal with it, but if it's what we got...

 

[GlimmerMan_v2.0]

Mini planets! I have some too.

View attachment 3503

Fantastic subject and comp for that effect Levina. Love it.

 

[Jack Dawe]

What fun!

 

[Jack Dawe]

@Jack Dawe
By the way, did you see the white stork on the chimney in my last tiny planet?

Oh yes, so there is!


I must stop fooling around.