[Richard Bibb]

I have been trying for a while to turn a panoramic picture I have into a circular picture but have been failing badly. (using Photoshop CS2)

The picture I have is of a row of houses in a street. What I would like to do is somehow fold the image into a circular image, having the pavement (sidewalk) run around the outer edges of the circlular picture and the sky above the roofs to turn into a blue disk in the middle of the circle (i.e. the very top of the original image converges into a single point in the new).

I have tried using the transform tool but, as you would probably guess, the image doesn't end up very smooth (looks more like a hexagon than a circle)

Does anybody know how to do something like that? Is my explaination clear enough.

[Ziaphra]

Are you talking about something like this?

http://www.fresh99.com/spherical-pictures.htm

I love these. The only way I think of you doing this would be to alter the perspective of the bottom of each pic inwards and then stitch them together. Good luck!

[Cameraken]

Hi Richard
Welcome to RetouchPro.

This May Help

Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates (with rectangular to Polar checked)


For a picture like Ziaphra Posted see

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12846



Ken

[Richard Bibb]

Thanks for your responses guys. It's difficult to see if what you suggest is exactly what I want (due to the subject matter in the images) but it certainly looks close. I'll give it a go and get back to you if I have problems