How to edit 360 In Photoshop
Make Your 360 Photos LOOK BETTER FAST! Photoshop Tutorial
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I have so much I should be doing right now. I have a content list this long, and
this long. Yet, just then, I had the idea. "Hey, let's make another video that I
hadn't planned. Just spur-of-the-moment, spontaneous Photoshop tutorial.
Because I've been working with a lot of 360 photos lately. I thought it'd be
really handy for you guys to learn the best 360 photo editing tips inside of
Adobe Premiere CC 2018, that will save you a ton of time. So let's get into it
right now. Traditionally, when you edit 360 photos inside of Photoshop, that
produce all kinds of errors when editing the stretched-out
equirectangular 2:1 photo, and that is bad. So there's a way of editing
your photos that will make your changes look native within that 360 environment,
and it doesn't take long at all. So I've opened up a raw photo from the Mi
Sphere here inside of Photoshop, and here's what it looks like. It's looking
flat. But, just you wait, I'm gonna edit this in Adobe camera raw and really
bring out its potential. This is one massive benefit of shooting raw. You can
really retain your highlights nicely, get your shadows looking how they should be,
and get a really well-balanced image that couldn't have been possible when
shooting in normal JPEG mode. Alright that is looking so good. So I'm gonna go
ahead and open image now, which is going to open in the main Photoshop window. So
we see the changes have been made, and that dynamic range is looking so good. So
to view this photo in 360 mode, you'll want to go up to 3D and choose the
spherical panorama option and new panorama layer from selected layer. This
now brings us into a 3D 360 workspace, where we can look around our photo like
that. And when you use the arrow, it pans around as you please. The first thing I
want to fix about this image is the Nadir. And you can see the Mi Sphere's
tripod there. It looks ugly, I want that out of my photo. So the first thing I'm
going to do is change my field of view(FOV), which you can find on the right-hand
side, in the properties. And we want to hit 1 and that will zoom out, so we can
properly see our Nadir. Now you can edit the photo like you would a normal photo. So
I'm going to choose the Spot Healing Brush and I'm just gonna paint this bad
boy out. Bye bye tripod, it was nice knowing you.
Now when we select the arrow again and we zoom up, we can see we're still in 360
mode and our tripod is gone. Next let's add some text to our image so it shows
up naturally within the 360 space. So I'm going to
write "BEN IS THE BEST", and we'll make that nice and big just in case there's
any confusion. Let's have it right there in the sky. Great, we go apply. So while
that has worked when we select our background layer and move around, it
stays in the same spot. So what we want to do is merge that text layer to the
360 photo. Do that by selecting a text layer go to layer and merge down. So that
now combines it with our 360 photo. You don't want to go merge all. Because then,
that will remove the 360 properties. But, you want to go merge down. So, now when we
look around, see, "BEN IS THE BEST" stays there within the 360 space and it
adjusts as you pan around. Excellent! Next, I want to add a graphic. I'm gonna add
the Photoshop logo in my hands, so I can use this as my thumbnail. So I'm going to
drag in the Photoshop icon there, and why don't we place it right there within my
hands. All right, that looks good. So again, if we select our background
layer and pan around, it's gonna stay in the same spot, which is why we need to do
the same thing again and select our graphic. and we'll go layout and merge
down. So now, when we look around, see how the image now moves around within the
360 space as it should. It doesn't stay in the middle, and it doesn't warp either.
It stays nice and square. While we're in the 360 space, you can access a lot of
the same tools as you might use if you're editing a normal photo. So, I'm
using the eraser here, so you want to get rid of these wheels, for whatever reason,
we want to add white wheels to these cars. You can do that. And, if you want to
change your perspective, again you need to change back to the arrow. And just for
fun, why don't we do a drawing. I'm gonna select my brush tool or make it look
like I'm doing a fart of fire. That will be pretty funny. Okay, done. Now again, when we
go back to our arrow, everything moves as it should within the 360 space. You can
see the perspective of that drawing I just did. It moves as I pan around. So
that's how you do all those cool things within your 360 photo. Of course, you can
paint stuff out that you don't want there. You can use the stamp tool, you can
use the healing tool. Whatever you don't like about your photo, just remove it. If
you want to see your photo as an equirectangular, you want to go
down into the layers section and we're going to double-click spherical map. This
opens up a new file up here, and this is our equirectangular. You'll see that the
Photoshop logo is all skewed now. However, don't worry, it's gonna look normal when
we go back into 360 mode. But using this feature is going to be super handy when
color correcting normal JPEGs. Because this is what's going to allow us to
color correct without getting that dreaded seam line. It's not an actual
seam line from stitching. Rather, it's a seam line from color correction as produced
when you use too much saturation, you play with the contrast and color a bit
too much. So if you're still getting the seam line, make sure you do your color
corrections after you've changed to the spherical map. Once we're done looking at
the spherical map, we can go ahead and close that, and save. And that will save
any changes we make to the original 360 photo we have. One thing you don't want
to do from this point, is go file, save as, or file export. Because it's going to
export just this single frame here. Whereas, we want to export it as a 360
panorama. The way you do that, is going back up to our 3D menu, go spherical
panorama and export panorama. And here we have our final photo. When we take it
into a 360 viewer, it's going to display nicely, everything is how it should be.
Alright guys, I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions, leave them in the
box below. But hopefully, these few things will take your 360 photos to the next
level, and they should definitely help you out with editing those raw files. I
like using Camera raw personally. It's super easy to use, and you can use it
right there inside of Photoshop. And that's 5 o'clock, the sun has gone
completely down. I am disappearing with every second that
passes. So on that note, don't forget to hit that subscribe button for more
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Check out the link down there, and download it today. Until next time, be
sure to capture your world in 360. I put some awesome videos coming up really
soon, I know you guys going to love. And, I've got a video course coming out
really soon. It's called, "A Beginner's Guide to 360 Video". I'm working on it now.
This is what I should be doing instead of making this tutorial. A video course
will be coming out in the next few weeks, and It'll cover everything you need to
know about 360 video. And, that's it! It's time I disappear. Bye.
