Create your own 3D small planets with your panoramic photos

You might find this interesting: http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify.html

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Andrew B. wrote: You might find this interesting: http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify.html

Thanks for the link, you are right that this is a very good plugin, but I have not bought it already, as I have prefered to buy FF 3.0 upgrade and other things before this, also thanks for remembering that I have found about this flexify before some time ago, but as this was not important and have a priority I have not bought it, the same as the excellent Fractalius that also have not bought either

ALSO if you go to the end of the page on the first link hereyou will see that this is put also.

The Flexify filter module ($35) for Adobe Photoshop creates polar panoramas on-the-fly and offers numerous projections for your photos.

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CFandM wrote: I am sure this could be modified to work with panoramic images... Polar Type o Filter

Thanks for the link, I did not that there was already a spherify filter , although as you say it surely must be modified, because the "magic" or trick to make this small planets, is that you need large rectangular photos well prepared before applying the filter,

As far as I know FF works better with square and normal rectangular photos, although really do not know what happens with large and long rectangular panoramic photos and a FF distortion filter applied to them, should try and see.

Some filters are prepared for rectangular photos as you can see with the very good
Spherical Projection by Inujima

This is the default preset 1

And also using the interesting preset 5 you can get things like this here

And continue modifying the preset five and change the setting of Repeat V to "3" you get this

The Wild Orb Perspective filter by voldemort (the king of distortion filters) is NOT prepared for rectangular photos as shown here with starnge and weird effects and is does not work at all well as it happens with the well done inujima filter above

Trying also the other presets give the same weird result and wrong result

ALSO happens the same wrong errors with the 3D Sphere by ThreeDee as ALSO is ONLY configured for SQUARE photos.

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Well here you go SpaceRay getting me sidetracked again.

YES I know you like challenges and filter suggestions. Thanks very much for trying to make a filter for this kind of things.

I have tried your new updated version Panoramic Planets but regretably it does not work well for me, it does not make an sphere or a planet like the ones above I am doing it wrong ?

What settings must be put ?

I have tried 3 different photos and had very bad result even trying with different settings

For example I have taken from the very first link this photo here as source for your filter



AND I should be getting this result



AND what I get with your filter is this shown below with scale 1,2 and size 2000, and I am showing the best I could make as there are many worse versions

Also I have seen that the Flexify 2 filter is really very complex and have many options, and have LOTS AND LOTS of Output options in MANY different shapes.

Also they say that they have a "1-click little planets" !!! as shown here

I also have seen that the price have risen from 35$ to 45$ !!

Although before buying, there is a downloadable free trial version And also have seen that the user guide included in the demo have 79 PAGES !!!

As I said still needs work and options to do various things......One note....Create a new image by going to the File menu then new image then create a square image....Then go to the settings tab on the filter and load the panoramic image from there......

Then heres PS

Yep and it works with the non-square images...

btw heres that planet filter so far.....When using this filter go to the menu and select "New Image" then make that image square...(Still working on that part)......Then go to the "Settings" tab on the filter and load your panoramic image in the control marked for that.........

Panoramic Planet.ffxml

Heres a quick result from the submitted polar filter.....

How about some panoramic shapes to go with the planet.....

Love that square one

Great and lovely filter you have made, Here I have made an example, but this was just a quick one, surely that preparing carefully the photo to be used with this filter I will get much better results.

It has not been said here that CFandM have already made available his great and lovely filter and that works very well.

POLAR DISTORT BY CFandM

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10289.html

And I have put lots of very good examples using this filter in this thread here

http://filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=11&TID=9487

PANORAMIC PLANETS by CFandM

Although this is not the only one

Here is the link to this other in the filter library

http://filterforge.com/filters/10306.html

And this to the forum

http://filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=11&TID=9441

Thanks for your comment lipebianc, glad you like them

Apart fr om the very well done and lovely and awesome filters fr om CFandM

There ALSO the real and original filter that has surely been used to make all the photos shown on the first post (because they have not travelled in time and got the CFandM filter and went back in time) and this is the:

SUB BLUE LITTLE PLANETS PIXEL BENDER FILTER

http://www.subblue.com/blog/2010/6/17/little_planets

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Little planets are created by applying a stereographic projection to a spherical panorama. Stereographic projection is a mapping that projects a sphere onto a plane

I think that the CFandM uses Polar coordinates effect instead of this Stereographic projection.

Although the main point is to build your own small planets as shown above (specially on first post) in this filter fr om SubBlue you can ALSO create the oppossite effect and warp the photo outward.

The best and wonderful thing on this filter is THAT ALL IS PREVIEWED, MADE AND RENDERED IN REALTIME - ZERO WAITING

Of course this is not a CFandM fault, and he have done a very good filter, but the problem is ON Filter Forge not having GPU acceleration.

The lim itation is that you can go beyond 4096 pixels inside the filter, BUT you can load slighty higher resolution of about 4500 pixels or perhaps up to 5000.