Create Unique Tiny Planet Image Using Photoshop Elements

Tiny Planet images have become quite popular on phot sharing sites and in social media sites, such as Facebook. To create a Tiny Planet image, you generally must start with a spherical or 360-degree panorama. Using drone or special 360-degree cameras make it easy to take and stitch the individual photos together.

This AppTip Sheet describes how to create a Tiny Planet image using Photoshop Elements. It begins with a 360-degree panorama shot with a Mavic Pro or similar drone and previously projected with a program such as okolo.com. There are many programs and websites that can produce Tiny Planets. However, using PSE to create it allows you to produce a high resolution image, and also allows you to the image.

Click on the figure above to display or print the PDF of the AppTip Sheet.

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PSE 2018 Video Tutorial – How I Print Photos

This video tutorial explains how I print photos on my Epson R1800 printer using Photoshop Elements 2016. My printer is an older one, but it still works quite well. Contrary to what experts recommend, I do not use a color managed workflow that requires you to periodically calibrate your monitor. I let the printer do the color management and not Photoshop.

Several years ago I did routinely calibrate my monitor and followed a color management process. But frankly, I get better and more consistent results using my approach, and it is easier.

If you are using an a higher end Epson printer, like the R1800, the screens will look very similar. On the other hand, if you are using a more inexpensive printer like my every day Epson WF-2760, the dialog screens will look different, but all of the settings I use will be available somewhere. If you use another brand of printer, the screens and settings may be entirely different, but the general concept will be the same. Click on the figure below to view the tutorial.

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Lunada Bay 360 Panorama

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The above is a link to a 360 degree panorama I took recently with my DJI Mavic Pro drone at Lunada Bay in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. On this flight, I did not go very high, since it was pretty breezy. The stitching of the 34 images was done in the DJI app I use to control the drone. The projection and display of the panorama is by Kuula.co, a popular website for sharing 360 panoramas.

After stitching, and before uploading to Kuula, I darkened the sky with the NIK Collection plug-in for Photoshop Elements.

I am still experimenting with the ways to upload and share the 360 panoramas. Taking the shots is the easy part and is done automatically by the DJI Go 4 app.

Please leave a comment if you would like to see more 360 degree panoramas.

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The Evolution of Photoshop Elements: PSE 11 through PSE 2018

One of the recurring topics that routinely show up in Photoshop Elements forums and social media is what are differences between different versions of Elements, and is it worth upgrading. Whether it is worth it or not is certainly up to the individual, but having a idea of what each version adds (and on occasion removes) is the first step in making your decision.

Sometime ago I put together a table that compares the current version to an earlier one. The PDF file that is linked below is my latest version of the table. It compares PSE 11 through PSE 2018. Hopefully, it will of some help to those who have struggled with the question of whether or not to upgrade.

Let me know if you found this table helpful. Don’t forget to explore my blog for other helpful digital photography articles and tutorials.

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Using the Slide Show Editor in PSE 2018

In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to use the Slide Show Editor in Photoshop Elements 2018 (PSE 2018). PSE has pretty much always included a slide show editor. The editor that was used in PSE 10, and earlier versions was full featured and easy to use. One of my favorite features was the ability to apply custom panning and zooming effects. Also, older versions had the ability to add highly customizable captions and titles.

Adobe found its legacy code too expensive to maintain, and long about PSE 11, they totally redesigned the Slide Show Editor. Unfortunately, to increase its user friendliness, they removed most of the customization options. Frankly for some time, I kept PSE 10 installed, just so I could make better slide shows. Premiere Elements 2018 (PRE 2018), can be used to make advanced features slide shows, but it significantly harder in my opinion.

Since the new Slide Show Editor was introduced, its capabilities have evolved. I find it useful to make quick slide shows when I do not need the customization provided by PRE 2018. Its biggest shortcoming, in my opinion, is that it can only accept video clips less than 10-15 seconds. This is too short.

Click on the link below to watch my video demonstration of the Slide Show Editor as installed in PSE 2018.

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Novell Way to Remove Color Cast Using PSE 2018 AppTip Sheet

I use Photoshop and Photoshop Elements pretty much daily. But I often can’t remember the exact steps to complete a certain edit or effect that I want to create. I don’t do it enough. I either have to go to my notes, a magazine article, or perhaps a previous blog post to fill in the blanks to fill in the blanks of my memory.

What I have been doing for awhile now is to prepare a cheat sheet that lays out the basic steps concisely. I think that these cheat sheets may come in handy for others as well.

That is where the AppTip Sheets come in. They are kept as short as possible, and assume the reader knows how to use the subject program. They just need a little help in putting steps together. Another possible scenario is to provide a top level view of the various screens for a new app on a smartphone or tablet. These cheat sheets help me a lot. Maybe they will you, as well.

So, in this post, I have included an AppTip Sheet for removing a colorcast in a photo. The screens are for Photoshop Elements 2018, but older versions of Elements work equally as well.

Let me know what you think of this type of format. I plan to post others shortly. If you have an idea for a certain topic or program, let me know that as well.

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The PSE 2018 ACR Detail and Camera Calibration Panels

Over the past several weeks I have posted tutorials on using the Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) in Photoshop Elements 2018. If you missed them, their links are shown below.

Overall RAW Image Processing with ACR

The ACR Workspace

Basic Editing in ACR

Using the ACR Tools

In this post, I have added the final tutorial in the series. It covers using the Detail and Camera Calibration panels of the ACR. As shown in the figure below, the Detail panel is where you go to sharpen and reduce the noise in your RAW images.

To view or print this tutorial, click on the link below.

Using ACR’s Detail and Camera Calibration Panels

I hope you have found these tutorials helpful. If you have please rate it according and share with others over social media.

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