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Learn to nondestructively edit and brand a spherical panorama—a 360-degree photo—with Photoshop and After Effects.
Spherical panoramasâ360-degree photosâare becoming more popular, especially on social media. Enhancing these images is slightly more complex than traditional photography, as they are not flat images. This course demonstrates a step-by-step nondestructive process for editing and branding spherical panoramas. Instructor Chris Converse covers masking out the tripod; applying a two-dimensional logo, retouching, and color adjustments; and adding special effects. The technique uses After Effects and Photoshop, and a new Creative Cloud tool called SkyBox Suite. The exercise files are free, so you can follow along even if you don't have a 360-degree camera.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Introduction
- What you'll need before starting this course
- A brief introduction to After Effects
- How to use the exercise files
- Isolate the tripod area
- Seamless tripod removal
- Remove tripod from bottom view
- Retouch and reset the panorama center point
- Replace the sky
- Add some sunshine
- Make color adjustments
- Add a logo
- Prepare the final JPEG file (with metadata)
- Upload spherical panorama to Facebook
