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There are several reasons why making images of composite photos are very popular. For example, in making photo montages it is very cool to see multiple views and positions of the same thing. Also, and I can speak from experience, it is very fun to put multiple photos together to form an image, like we did with our photo montage. Also, even though a panorama doesn't seem like a bunch of images, it is, because when you take a panorama with a smartphone, or a camera that does panoramas, it is taking a bunch of pics when you are holding down your shutter button. So, panoramas are really popular because you can see a really big landscape. Also, in the kind we are doing now, the polar and spherical images, are made up of a lot of images that a photo editing program will help you make it like a sphere.
Okay, on to the next thing! There also several differences with polar and spherical panoramas, the most obvious, (to me), is the perspective. The polar panoramas' perspective is looking down from a spaceship onto a planet. The spherical panoramas are slightly different, because their perspective is from inside the planet instead of outside. You feel that you are in this really cool planet where there is stuff on the walls. Also, in the polar panoramas, the sky is on the outside while in the spherical panoramas, the sky is on the inside. There are also technical differences. For instance, when you are using Photoshop, you do different processes to make polar and spherical panoramas. However, you take polar and spherical panoramas the same way, the difference is how you do it in photoshop.
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You obviously have to do multiple steps in Photoshop to make your tiny worlds believable. I mean, seriously, who would want to look at a image that looks completely unrealistic. So, you have to things to make it look as realistic as it can be. This is done by using the "clone stamp tool" in Photoshop, which is basically copying and pasting parts of your images to other places, which creates a much more realistic effect on the viewer. Another thing you need to do when taking your pics is to make sure nothing is touching the sky, like a tree. If you do accidentally do this, your tiny worlds will not be as realistic, because you will have a tree in your planet's atmosphere. Also, as a handy tip, rotate your edited world by 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise to distract the viewer from any slight mistakes you might have. Plus, it looks way cooler if you do that. ;) Also, when you are taking the photos that you will turn into a tiny world, you need to have it look like a good panorama, so when you turn it into a world it looks like an awesome world.
