Hey what's up everybody and welcome back to another Gal tutorial. Today I'm going to
be showing you how to fake a tiny planet effect using a panoramic photo that I've
got from Envato Elements and superimpose a person, it could be
yourself in this case it's going to be me to make it look like I'm standing on
the planet I'm gonna add a fake Sun and some cool shadow effects this is going
to be a pretty cool tutorial so without further ado let's go ahead and jump in
but first I want to let you guys know that this video is sponsored by Oxygen
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let's go ahead and jump on into the tutorial. So to create the tiny planet
effect without a 360 camera you need to start with a panoramic photo now you can
take a panoramic photo with your own iPhone or camera in this case I'm using
a stock image from Envato elements here inside a Photoshop I have it open. The
first step is to squish this image into a square so go up to image and go to
image size make sure that this link is turned off and we're going to make the
width the same as the height and then hit OK so now it's squished now we need
to flip it and then add a filter to create the tiny planet effect so now
let's go to image and let's go ahead and rotate it 180 degrees and then with the
layer selected go up to filter go to distort and polar coordinates and select
rectangular to polar and then hit OK and now we have the tiny planet effect you
can see that there's some distortion around the edges what we can do is
actually get rid of that by just scaling this up so let's go ahead and scale this
up and then we can reposition it so that way that distortion is out of the frame
and you can scale it up as much as you want
until the tiny planet looks about the right size that you want so that looks
good and now you can see that there's a seam where it was spliced together the
two sides and we need to fix that we need to make it less obvious so we're
going to use the spot healing tool. if you click on the ellipsis here go
down to find the Spot Healing Brush tool and now let's zoom in and let's hit
control to adjust the brush size so it's a little bit smaller and then we can
click and go over this line and it starts to make it less obvious don't
worry we're going to use the clone tool next so that way it's even less obvious and
let's do the same down here over the water let's go ahead and go over that
now if we zoom out it's a little less obvious now we need to use the clone
tool to fix this area here so if you click on the clone stamp tool and if you
hit option and click you're gonna take a sample of this blue area and then if you
click you can put that color overtop here now what I'm doing is I'm just this
clicking until I can start to make this line less obvious so again option click
start clicking over that building that I replicated there and that way it's less
obvious what is happening there and you can see if we just happened upon this
photo fully scaled out you probably wouldn't have noticed that there's a
seam in there let's go through and just make sure everything's ok let's go up
here it's looking good ok that seam is less obvious now it's
pretty good it's not completely perfect but remember we're gonna superimpose an
image of myself on top of this tiny planet so it will cover up any more
seams and if you want to change where these buildings are around the world you
can actually hit command - on a Mac or ctrl - on a PC and you can click on this
image and you can rotate this so the buildings can change in rotation so if
you want to shift it over just a little bit like that you can do that as well
I'm just going to leave it around here and I think that looks good and hit
return so now let's add a Sun so that way we can start to cast shadows
correctly so I'm going to go down here to new layer and I'm going to fill this
in as a solid color black is fine then I'm gonna go to filter and go to render
lens flare and convert to smart object so you can do this and you can see the
different types of lens flares here let's choose the 105 Prime and hit OK
and then because of the black we can change the blend mode to screen and what
screen does is take away all the black so we're just left with the lens flare
and now we can click and reposition this how we want
I can even rotate it and just hit don't show again and hit okay and when we
rotate it it'll go away and then hit return and you can see it again we can
scale it up but but if we want to hit return so now this planet is good to go
you can export it as its own tiny planet but what if you want to superimpose
yourself or somebody else in the center of this tiny planet that is what I'm
going to show you next so let me open up this image here of the cutout that I
created so this was the original photo of just me standing on my balcony here
and I just removed the background so here I am with a transparent background
I can just click and drag myself on top of this planet here and then I can scale
myself down and just place me roughly in the center until it looks right so right
around here is fine and then hit return and make sure that I am behind
underneath the Sun layer so that way the Sun and the light affects the image so
it looks more natural to the scene now the next step is to create a shadow of
myself so what I could do is I can actually duplicate this layer so if I
control click I can hit duplicate and we can just call it layer 1 copy that's
fine and then I'm going to go up to image and go to adjustments exposure and
just completely reduce the exposure until I'm black and this is going to be
the shadow so then let's go ahead and lock this lens flare so we don't keep
grabbing it so hit the lock icon so it's locked and then this layer is going to
become the shadow so we can rotate this down to match where the lighting is
coming from from the light here and let's also squish it and distort it
because shadows are not perfect so I'm going to hit shift and let's distort
this make it a little bit more squished in and let's scale it
and squish it a little bit more now the next step is to apply a Gaussian blur on
this that way it's less of a harsh edge let's go up to filter blur and let's go
to Gaussian blur and let's just add around seven using the slider that looks
good now let's go ahead and let's change this
to a linear burn blend mode and then when we reduce the fill you'll start to
see it blend in with the planet if this is normal it's not going to have that
cool burn effect so let's change this to linear burn and then we can adjust the
fill if you click down here you can adjust the slider until it looks a
little bit more natural so that looks good you can always adjust this fill at
any time if you change your mind and you want to make the shadow a little bit
more subtle another thing that we need to do is erase the shadow because it's
falling off of the planet so what we need to do is zoom in and just a erase
around the buildings because we still want the shadow to fall on the building
so click on the eraser tool and then select the shadow layer and then we can
start to erase the shadow off the planet
so now we can zoom out and kind of look okay what else needs to happen to make
this look more realistic so I'm already seen that the shadow still looks a
little bit harsh so I'm going to reduce the opacity just a little bit so it's
not as fully dark there I think that looks a little bit better so now that
the shadow is looking better the next step i notice is that my feet look kind
of unnatural here i'm actually wearing black socks here so it doesn't help in
the fact that i'm not wearing shoes but what we can do is kind of make an
imprintation like i'm actually standing in the grass here so to do that what I'm
going to do is create another layer here just by clicking on the new layer button
and make sure it's below the image of myself and I'm going to use the paint
tool here and I'm going to make the brush by hitting ctrl click make it a
little bit bigger think around 70 is fine and make the hardness really low so
that way it's more softer on the edges and then I'm just going to click and
just gently create an imprint around my feet here a little bit up here so that
way a little bit darker between my legs there so it looks a little bit more
natural and then just around this side so it looks a little bit better and then
we can change the blend mode so from normal let's go ahead and see which
blend mode looks better I usually just scrub through typically overlay is
pretty good soft light is good I think soft light looks really good
here and now we have a better imprint ation going on it looks a little bit
better and then what we can do is adjust the opacity so we can grab the slider
here and just make some adjustments you can see if it's fully black it doesn't
look that great so let's just drag it down to around 76% and then what we can
do is play around with actual lighting of the planet so what we're going to use
use the burn tool to do this but first we're going to create another layer and
from edit we're going to go up to fill and let's fill this at 50% grey and hit
OK and now let's change the blend mode to overlay and then we're going to go
over to the tool bar if you don't see the burn tool already
here you're gonna click on the ellipsis and from here you're going to go down to
burn tool and from here let's control click and let's increase the burn tool
turn around 500 and then the hardness can be zero and then we can start to
just paint over this area by clicking and you can see how it gets a darker and
because this side of the planet should be darker than the rest we can even go
up here around the buildings just to make it darker so that way the side of
the planet is less dark because the Sun is not shining on it
I think that's looking good we can also adjust the opacity so if we wanted to
lower that so it's not quite as dark we can always adjust the opacity so now I
think this is looking really cool I love this effect I'm just going to go ahead
and go up to file and I'm going to export this as a quick PNG and now I can
upload it to my Instagram I can just do final tiny planet and then I would just
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