Editing a Spherical Panorama with Photoshop and After Effects

Learn to nondestructively edit and brand a spherical panorama—a 360-degree photo—with Photoshop and After Effects.

Spherical panoramas—360-degree photos—are 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.

Introduction

• Introduction
• What you'll need before starting this course
• A brief introduction to After Effects
• How to use the exercise files

1. Edit and Retouch a Spherical Panorama

• 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