What's up guys? This is Ben from Life in 360.
Today i'm going to show you how to
create a custom nadir for your 360
photos and look I know what you're
thinking..
Nadir? What a stupid word! Yeah I agree
ok so now to explain the meaning of this
stupid word so I've taken a 360 photo
here with my Theta S as you can see and
the nadir is the bottom most point, so here
i've got my tripod and the nadir, na-deer
whatever the actual pronunciation of it
is.. is this bottom part here where my
tripod is and what we want to do in this
tutorial is show you how to insert your
logo there so it stays completely flat
as you move it around and doesn't end up
all skewed. This will be handy for firstly
covering up that tripod because we don't want
that there, but also if you do want to
add a logo in if you're doing something
more professional
so if you want your viewers to look
around; look up, look down and
they see your logo with your phone
number or whatever.. i'm gonna show you how
to do it. So because the nature of 360
photography is circular everything is a
circle you're catching everything around
you in a big sphere it will probably
look best if you make your logo or
graphic you want to add a circle then
when you look down it'll be circular
instead of kind of looking on jagged and
kind of bigger than it needs to be so if
you're trying to insert your business
logo for example it will be best to go
into Photoshop and then i'm going to
show you how to turn your square logo
into a circle, let's do it!
There's the Life in 360 logo and
it doesn't necessarily need to be
photoshop, it can be any image editing
program as long as it's capable of
creating a circular logo so we'll go
ahead and double-click the background
layer there and then we'll hit okay that
makes it editable now head over to the
ellipse section and we'll go to our
circular ellipse and we want to draw a
little circle there around the logo
this will later be our circle in our 360
image at the very bottom. Get it as circular
as you can- doesn't need to be perfect, make
it as
perfect as you can then we'll go up to
'select' then 'inverse' which means that
everything outside of the logo is now
selected now we will simply go ahead and
just erase that so we have a clear
background
alright so now it's as simple as just
going to File > Save As and you want to
export that as a PNG give it a nice
little title and then export alright so
the next step is to open up your
internet browser we're going to go to
www.nadirpatch.com
and here we go
this is our secret weapon
so once you're there you'll want to hit
Tripod Patched hit that one there and so
now this is a fantastic tool that will
essentially allow you to insert your 360
photo that you want to use but also your
circular logo and it'll do all the work
for you
so now we got to logo and we simply just
locate our circular image which we just
created
there we go now we'll grab our
equirectangular 360 photo which is the
palm tree photo from before and we
simply just drag it over into the
equirectangular projection box and that
will automatically upload for us so now
the magic happens it's going to combine
the two
ok there it is so now it's giving us the
option to crop we can make it as small
or large as we like I'm going to make
it just the size of my little manfrotto
tripod doesn't need to be any bigger-
that's still plenty big having it at
about fifty percent there so that's
doing a good job and once you're happy
with the size just hit the create button
at the top there
alright there's our little preview and
click download simple as that and it's gonna
download to my desktop at full
resolution
this is a beautiful thing because it
exports at the full resolution of your
360 photo so you're not losing
any quality. Alright there it's
downloaded and let's
have a look at it in its purest state
and it's done nice job at
stretching out the logo i mean look it
looks hideous at the moment so don't be
too alarmed but when we bring it into our
spherical viewer- i will use the Ricoh
Theta viewer to have a look there was a
previous image and we just drag it
across there and VOILA there we have it
Life in 360 and that looks really good
see how it displays so perfectly not
skewed at all when you move it, it doesn't
look hideous
it looks perfect so it's very simple and
easy and the software is free you don't have
to pay a cent for this free online
website so take advantage of it
personally I actually don't do this very
much I prefer my 360 photos when they're
interactive like that to have an
untouched feel so when the viewer looks
around there's no evidence of
manipulation
however if you're using it professionally
and you do want your logo there it's
almost like having a business card in
your image so go for it
it's up to you. It's just one of
many creative decisions you'll make when
shooting 360 so i hope this tutorial was
helpful feel free to send through any
questions you have about anything and
i'll do my best to answer them feel free
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beginner's guide to tiny planet
photography' so if you're in a 360 camera
which I'm getting you do this is the
go-to book for creating tiny planet
photos and just making them really awesome
and shit so check it out and until next
time, keep living your life in 360! Talk soon.