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Photos of my interests and of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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About Me
- Gordon Pritchard
- I'm an artist, photographer, and graphic designer based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Formerly Print Quality Marketing Manager for eleven years at Creo/Kodak. Presented at print technical conferences, trained printers and buyers regarding print quality issues in Europe, N. America, and S.E. Asia. Articles published in trade journals, co-authored TAGA paper on halftone screening, authored BRIDG's guide to halftone screening. Previously Technical Director of Western Canada's largest commercial sheetfed shop. For several years Professor of Digital Graphic Design at Emily Carr University. Former Creative Director at McCann Ericksson Vancouver.
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How did you manage to do that ? It's very cool !
This is done in PhotoShop. Here's the recipe:
1 - Take an image that has a simple sky area.
2 - It's best if the left and rightmost areas of the image are similar. That allows the two side to marry well when the image is created.
3 - Go to Menu--->Image--->Image Size.
4 - Uncheck "Constrain Proportions"
5 - Enter a dimension in the "Width" box so that the Width is the same as the height.
6 - Click "OK"
7 - The image is now distorted. It looks squeezed and is square in shape.
8 - Go to Menu--->Image--->"Rotate Canvas" and choose 180°
9 - The image is now upside down
10 - Go to Menu--->Filter--->Distort--->"Polar Coordinates"
11 - Check "Rectangular to Polar" Click "OK"
That's the basic method. You'll probably have to do some touching up to get it right. With practice you'll learn how to take a photo with this effect in mind to get the best results. Sometimes though an image will work well even though it didn't meet the criteria.
Enjoy!
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