Polar Panoramas

Okay, so you've seen my Spherical Panorama, but now for my Polar Panoramas.  To learn how to do this I researched  Steps to a Polar Panorama. I learned that first you need to find a beautiful area that has a horizon. Once you find that area, you take overlapping pictures that has little detail on the bottom and the top, always remember to keep your left and right edges matching. Once you've got those pictures, open up Photoshop and then you can resize and rotate all of your pictures together. You should have a square image, once you do, rotate your image 180 degrees and add Polar Filter to your picture. After that all you've got do is edit your picture from good to great! For more information you can look at Polar Coordinates

As you can see in the first Polar, there is a picture of me. To do that my partner took a picture of me with the camera closer to my head. I loaded that picture up on Photo shop in a new tab and used the Quick Selection Tool on my image. I moved the Quick Selection Tool over a part of my image. I draged the tool over the part of the subject I was working on. A little trick is to hold alt/option over a part you don’t want in your pic. Then I simply adjusted the background color and selected the sample all layers box. To make the shadow I Copied/Pasted the image and adjusted the exposure to make a dark image and lowered the opacity to about 40%. Once I get a shadowed image I adjust it to look like a shadow on the ground.

Spherical Panoramas

These are my Spherical Panoramas I made in my G.T. class! I took a 360 degree picture that has an even amount of sky and ground in it and the sides are similar to each other. After taking the pictures, I used Adobe Camera Raw to edit the pictures, to give it that HD sort of look. After Raw, I went onto Photoshop and loaded them on by clicking, "File --> Automate --> Photomerge. 

I then loaded my 360 degree pictures and they loaded on the Photoshop "Blended" together. When they loaded, I resized it into a square and filtered it using Polar Coordinates. Once I got the shape of the Spherical Panorama, I used the elliptical marquee tool and feathered the edges. Once the edges were feathered I added a nice background that suits the final picture. 

Finally, I got a spherical panorama, but there were some creases. To get rid of those ugly creases I used the stamp tool to get the same look to fill in that crease. I made sure that all of the creases were covered and looked okay. This is how I made my spherical panoramas, now you can make your own!

All about me

Hey everyone! My name is Claudia Hanson. I was born on January 30, 2000. My middle name is Love, yep, that's right, Love. I am the oldest of four. I have three siblings, Eddie, Haakon, and Asa. I enjoy singing, dancing, acting, eating, and talking. I am currently in 8th grade and I am in my school's Gifted and Talented class G.T.

I was born on Oahu and moved to Kauai in 2nd grade, 2007. I have traveled to Maui, Oregon, New York, Washington, and California. My favorite quotes are, "Live simply, so others can simply live" (I don't know exactly who first said it) and "Just keep swimming" - Dory.

Towards the end of 2013, I discovered I have Scoliosis. On January 8, 2014 I went to the doctors for it and discovered that I will have to get surgery. The happiest moment of my life was seeing my biological dad again after 7 years of not seeing him. I visited him, my step mom, Asa, and Haakon in Oregon during Fall Break of my 8th grade year. I have previously done dance, cheerleading, and swimming. I also play musical instruments. The instruments I am best at are Guitar and Piano.  Now you know a little about myself. :)

Final Photomontages

Who doesn't like a photomontage of a giant stuffed panda and a girl dancing? These AMAZING photomontages were inspired by David Hockney.  All I did, and you can do too, is take multiple pictures of a certain subject and edit them in Adobe Camera Raw (just to give it the more life-like look), after editing I simply combined all of the photos I took in Photoshop, added a little border and background, and Walla, two wonderful Photomontages showing a specific scene. 

Magazine Cover

This is my magazine cover, Fierce Flexibility. I finished it during the fall of 2013, during my Gifted and Talented class. To make this magazine cover I had a classmate take a picture of me doing something that relates to my magazine. Once I had a good picture I edited the picture using Adobe Camera Raw. After getting that Life-Like look I opened the picture onto Photoshop and started a contour  by outlining the main subject of my photo. When I had the outline, I colored in my contour by using the colors of each part of my picture. So that's the drawing part but now for the words. I made each heading by first simply typing in what I wanted to be in my magazine, this is called text layover. Once I have all of the headings typed out I added text effects. I used stroke, gradient overlay, and drop shadow. For the title I added a arch effect. 

Besides the texta and drawing, I added some extra credit by adding a picture of a bar code and app bar code. I made up a fake website and had that be used for the app. For the  (reasonable) price of the