Many websites are using 360-degree panoramic images to allow visitors to get the full impact from a particular location. Everyone from travel agent and hotels to architects and city planners are using this type of image. If you would like to create your own 360-degree panoramic image, you can use Photoshop to do it.
Instructions
1. Take your photographs using a high quality digital camera, making sure that each photo overlaps the other by about 30%. Then transfer them to you computer hard drive and open Photoshop.
2. Select "File," then "Automate," and click "Photomerge." In the dialog that opens up, browse to the images you want to use and add them. Only add the side images. Do not add the images that go at the very top or bottom of the panorama.
3. Make the "Layout" "Spherical." Select "Auto" and "Geometric Distortion Correction" if you used a fish eye type of lens. Then click "OK."
4. Use the "Crop" tool to remove any bad or transparent pixels at the edge of the panorama.
5. Go to the menu and select "3D," then "New Shape From Layer," and click "Spherical Panorama." Now just add the last two top and bottom images by hand in Photoshop.
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