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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 208689" data-attributes="member: 9240">I subscribe to the Improve Photography blog and was reading through their <a href="http://improvephotography.com/11546/21-best-today-photo-ideas/" target="_blank">21 Best &quot;Do It Today&quot; Photo Ideas</a> email that I got over the weekend.&nbsp; When I came to #5 Create A &quot;Small World&quot; Photo I recognized an image similar to what I got from the Tiny World app on my iPhone, so I figured why not give it a shot and learn something?! &nbsp;It recommends a 360 degree panorama, but all the ones I already had are far too long and skinny to work.&nbsp; The iPhone app works on the normal camera view, so I went hunting for a panorama where left and right are fairly close.&nbsp; Following the directions on the linked &quot;How To&quot; article I plugged in a panorama I shot in FL of my brother in-law's dock.&nbsp; There was a hard edge that I did a quick fix on and voila!![ATTACH=full]56178[/ATTACH]Then, for giggles, I decided not to invert the image before distorting it and turned the world in on itself.&nbsp; The effect was cool, but the edges got weird, so I used the elliptical selection tool and cut out the outside and got this.[ATTACH=full]56179[/ATTACH]Not to be stopped there, I decided that I missed the use of the selection tool in the first photo, so I went back, did the same selection and then used content aware fill to eliminate the stretched clouds.&nbsp; It worked for 95% of it, so I had to select 2 small areas and repeat the process.[ATTACH=full]56181[/ATTACH]Key seems to be to have a sufficient amount of filler in the foreground so as not to lose detail in the center.It's not something I'd use every day, or even every month.&nbsp; But it's another tool in the box for when I need an idea on what to do with what's in front of me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 208689, member: 9240"] I subscribe to the Improve Photography blog and was reading through their [URL="http://improvephotography.com/11546/21-best-today-photo-ideas/"]21 Best "Do It Today" Photo Ideas[/URL] email that I got over the weekend. When I came to #5 Create A "Small World" Photo I recognized an image similar to what I got from the Tiny World app on my iPhone, so I figured why not give it a shot and learn something?! It recommends a 360 degree panorama, but all the ones I already had are far too long and skinny to work. The iPhone app works on the normal camera view, so I went hunting for a panorama where left and right are fairly close. Following the directions on the linked "How To" article I plugged in a panorama I shot in FL of my brother in-law's dock. There was a hard edge that I did a quick fix on and voila!! [ATTACH type="full"]56178._xfImport[/ATTACH] Then, for giggles, I decided not to invert the image before distorting it and turned the world in on itself. The effect was cool, but the edges got weird, so I used the elliptical selection tool and cut out the outside and got this. [ATTACH type="full"]56179._xfImport[/ATTACH] Not to be stopped there, I decided that I missed the use of the selection tool in the first photo, so I went back, did the same selection and then used content aware fill to eliminate the stretched clouds. It worked for 95% of it, so I had to select 2 small areas and repeat the process. [ATTACH type="full"]56181._xfImport[/ATTACH] Key seems to be to have a sufficient amount of filler in the foreground so as not to lose detail in the center. It's not something I'd use every day, or even every month. But it's another tool in the box for when I need an idea on what to do with what's in front of me. [/QUOTE]

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