Hey guys, this is your boy Ben Claremont
from LIFE in 360 and i posted an
Instagram photo last night that a lot of
people were asking questions about so i
thought i'd just explain it in a quick
little tutorial and in that photo i
posted an inverted planet where the
border of the image was completely
white so it almost looked like a snow
globe or christmas bauble of whatever
stupid name you want to call it it's
really cool effect that I've always come
back to like maybe every 1 in 10 images
to just add a bit of variety to your 360
work and to your instagram feed it's good
to give people something different and i
found it to be a really powerful tiny
planet editing technique that I think
you will also be able to implement into
your work and and create some really
good stuff that displays your work in a
very kind of new context. So i started with
this 360° image that I've got here
which I shot at the shrine of
remembrance in melbourne australia and
they can see me against the the Sun
they're showing the theta s and my
shadows nicely covering up the camera
there so here's our 360 viewing in 360
mode so i put the camera on the ground
there which means my kind of feet are
right on the horizon line this is very
important when you're trying to achieve
this specific effect because you need a
clean border which you're going to
later paint over so we can see there
roughly that we have a a clear circular
shape on the outside of the inverted
planet which is going to be really good
which means we can then fill in all of
that, the ground around it into
either plain black or plain white
ok so I've just imported the image into
Rollworld which is my favourite 360
editing app so it's going to be just as
simple as to a quick little edit there
and you can use whichever app you like
they most of them produce the same
result- i found Rollworld is the best for
iphone it's not available on Android
unfortunately but there are lots of good
apps on there that will give you
tiny planet manipulation ability. Small
Planet is a good one and same with Theta
Plus those are good android options so
you can see I'm doing a little quick
edit here get that nice and symmetrical
so it's important that we leave the
border for ourselves which we can paint
over later
it's not the nicest border at the moment
it's concrete and a bit of writing on
the ground is fine but it could be
better i can tell already that this
photo is gonna look great with a white
border because it's already got a lot of
detail in the middle if you have too
much detail there's too much to look at
for the viewer so if you can get rid
of a bit and leave negative space on the
outside
suddenly your tiny planet is much more
interesting to look at because it's less
crluttered so I think that's a good-sized
border that we've got there so i'm going
to go ahead and export that from Rollworld
and export 4k camera roll and now
our weapon of choice is going to be
Snapseed. Snapseed is available on both
iphone and android ok so we want to make
this border white so i'm going to go
ahead and hit the brush there i'm going
to go to exposure and then just adjust
exposure you to plus one is very white
so all we do is just paint with our
finger and it starts turning white
just go around round and round we go
where it stops nobody knows, except me. I
know
ok so that's that's once-around I want
lift your finger again and go around a
couple of times it won't always go
straight to white you'll have to do a
couple of times over
there's also a tool that will help get
your greys to become lighter instead
of painting over and over gray you might
want to hit the selective tool there
I'll just click the top left corner of
our image and when we pinch the
screen like that we can see the area
that's affected so we'll have to do this
four corners one corner at a time so I'm
hitting the brightness there and that's
going to up our brightness in the
left-hand corner now that's much whiter
bring that area down a bit
yeah that's better that is better so I
now go ahead and paint the bottom left
corner so have to start that again and
go selective and we tap in the bottom
left corner and
again pinch to see the area that is
effected. Just swipe to the
right is going to make it brighter swipe
to the left it will be darker and you
can also change saturation and contrast
in a selected area with this tool which is
really handy. Might even bring the saturation down
just for those kind of red bits of the
writing there on the ground lookin good
ok one more selective in the bottom
right this time
so bring that all the way to the right
that's looking good and there you can
pinpoint the area that you want it to
affect which is good you need whole you
your thumb down a bit harder than you
normally would so that area is good and
then we'll change our situation make it
minus a hundred finally our top right
corner
go selective one more time and our first
we'll see ya that roughly that area
there if we make it too big then we
start affecting the clouds and the rest
of the image and we don't want to do
that we want to leave the inner circle
is untouched as possible so let's just
make sure it affects only that top corner
there. Turn our saturation down and
brightness up
alright that's looking really good
already we're pretty much at
pure white which is what we want we do
still have a bit of writing there which
is the writing on the concrete so we do
want to get rid of that so what I'm
going to do is I'm going to hit the
healing function healing functions
really handy it get rid of all of those
little spots an unwanted details and
simple as just pressing your finger
to the area you want to get rid of
doesn't always work first time you need
to play around with it a bit just just
because it works like the clone stamp
tool in photoshop so it'll take a
snippet of the image from close by and
then place it where you are painting
your finger so i'll just have to do a little
tiny bit at a time and you can also zoom
in to get extra close up
detail
oh that's good come on i find it's just
a matter of doing a lot of times until
until it goes to pure white
okay well that's probably not going to
work something gonna go back the cool
thing about this app is it's very
easy to go back and undo your work might
just go back and use my brush again and
turn that exposure up one more time just
because this is a troubled area and it's
just easier there's less messing around
if we just done brush it over with our
finger there and there we go that's
working really nicely so now i'm going
to have a look around the image to see
the bits i missed the darkness there
get rid of it and that's looking pretty
good i like that shadow there i like
that it kind of leaves that the inner
circle connects that the inner circle in
the outer circle it's a good stylistic
choice i'm going to keep that there i
really like that so now i'm just gonna
do some final color Corrections just to
really get the the colors in that inner
circle nice and vibrant so the saturation
goes up that's looking good turn up the
warmth a bit. Snapseed is very easy to
use because you can do it all by just
using your thumb and I'm you learn how
swiping up and swiping left and right
allows you to access the different
brushes and different strengths of those
brushes. It's a really good tool, i use it for
every single photo i edit and it's
free- that's amazing for a free app so I'm
happy with that i'm going to go ahead
and export this I find most of the
time white does work better than black
but it is just a matter of trying it out
photo by photo and seeing which is the
better option i always use every slider
whenever i'm editing my photos and
whenever I'm color correcting my photos
just to make sure you're always making
the absolute best creative decisions if
it looks better as black and white it
looks better as color inverted normal
planet it's worth trying everything
it only takes an extra two seconds to
try something different and you could be
onto something really amazing so try
as many things as you can and you
will eventually get that the perfect
edit of your 360
alright guys well hope you enjoyed this
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it'll show you color correction like
we've done here
and go into it in much more depth and it's
just got everything will teach you how
to do every kind of tiny plant effect so
check it out and if you have any
questions for future videos I'd be happy
to explore them so shoot me a message
alright guys keep living your life in 360.
This is Ben and talk to you soon!