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About This GigaPan
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Charles Davis
- Explore score
- 86
- Size
- 0.13 Gigapixels
- Views
- 503
- Date added
- June 14, 2012
- Date taken
- June 09, 2012
- Gear
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Nikon D300
Epic 100
- Categories
- architectural, cityscapes, landscape
- Galleries
- Competitions
- Tags
- Ft. Worth, Fort Worth, cultural district, Art District, museum, The Kimbell, The Modern, Amon Carter, Will Rogers, UNTHSC, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Henry Moore
- Description
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This 360 degree panorama was converted from rectangular to polar coordinates then the upper sky was radially blurred. A black center border was used for the caption.
About half of the scene was cloudy during capture...I adjusted it somewhat, but left it darker.
I also uploaded the rectangular source image, which is much larger and thus shows more detail when you zoom in. It's here:
Charles Davis (June 14, 2012, 07:25PM )
I used PS Elements Version 10, but I think any version can do it? It has a rectangular to polar "filter". The 1st trick is to first make the rectangular image a square, by changing the horizontal size to a value equal to the vertical size. The 2nd trick is to add borders top and bottom...in this image I added a white border at the top and a black border at the bottom...the top border was rather big, as I used the clone tool to drag parts of the skyline up into the white border [this can be done before or after the polar conversion]. The 3rd trick is to rotate the square image 180-degrees [turn it up-side-down]. Then just convert from rectangular to polar coordinates [it's in the Filter > Distort menu]. At one point, I had a nice set of instructions re how to do this, but I lost them. :-( I should recreate them and put them on my website... I have tried to add cross-links to both images, but not sure I can just copy and paste HTML code?
ePerson (June 14, 2012, 06:19PM )
Wow... this version looks absolutely amazing. What program did you use to make the polar version?
ePerson (June 14, 2012, 06:19PM )
Also, please link the two images together in the description!