Comments on: Catherine Nelson Creates Entire Worlds in Photographs

By: Ondřej Zeman

Ondřej Zeman — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:58:00 +0000

If you are serious about this, then you know it’s not just the polar coordinates filter in Photoshop.

BTW: I have done this with my mate KiDCoDEa back in 2006 in a PC racing simulator – same technique as you would use with real camera: capture several screenshots in the game and then a lot of stitching / retouching.

By: Avrohom Perl

Avrohom Perl — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:22:00 +0000

Or you can just use PTGui.

Tell it where your photos are.
Push stitch.
Push mini planet.

By: Vladimir Krzalic

Vladimir Krzalic — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:15:00 +0000

Read Daivd Crockett’s comment. You have the tutorial there. :)

By: Ken Kotch

Ken Kotch — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:20:00 +0000

These remind me of “The Little Prince”

By: Rodoclix

Rodoclix — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:35:00 +0000

would love to see a video tutorial on how to do one of these..love the look

By: Colin Krieg

Colin Krieg — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:33:00 +0000

^ What he said :P

By: David Crockett

David Crockett — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:09:00 +0000

This effect is easy to do in Photoshop and actually takes about 45 photos. You take three photos, top, middle and bottom 180 degrees vertically and then repeat 360 degrees around horizontally, to make a total of about 45 exposures. Then you stitch the each set of three vertical shots together to end up with about 15 or so very vertical panoramics. Then the trickiest part, you have to stitch those vertical panoramics together into one long 360 panoramic. Then, you have to squish it all together into a perfect square. Lastly, go to filter/distort/polar coordinates. Ensure the “rectangular to circular” option is checked. And tada! If you lined everything up just right, you have what you see above. I’ve done them and they’re very cool and fun.
I will say, she did a very lovely job on these and they look amazing!