Polar Panoramas

     These are my two finished  Polar Panorama's. The very first step to making these was to learn all about them, so we could choose a perfect location to create another composite image. Just like with our Spherical Panorama, we took 10-15 perfect images with a 10-15% overlap. The next step was to use PhotoMerge to combine all of our pictures, and to rotate our new image 180 degrees. That step is the only thing that differs from my earlier post about Spherical Panoramas. Then we used the same Polar Coordinates filter to turn it into these masterpieces.
   
      Once we were done with our Polar Panos, we went out and took beautiful photos of ourselves , and used the Quick Selection Tool  to select just our portraits, and not the backgrounds. Then we pasted ourselves onto our favorite Polar Panos, and created a shadow by copying the picture of ourselves on. After that, we brought the hue down to black, and brought the opacity down to 40%. Next we feathered it, pasted it to a background and saved to our files. The final step was to turn it in, although you probably won't have to do that!