538 Turning a panorama into a tiny planet

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week, we're gonna take this panorama of New York City,…and we're gonna essentially wrap it around itself…to create this tiny little planet.…Now this is a great old Photoshop trick,…it's been out there forever.…And, I don't want to over-promise,…but I think I've gone and made it that much better.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright, here's the final version of the planet,…just so you have a chance to see it onscreen.…We're gonna be starting off in this image here,…which comes to us from the Fotolia Image Library.…

About which we could learn more at fotolia.com/deke.…Now, the first and the most difficult step…is to get the left and right sides of the image…to match up with each other.…Because after all,…they're gonna wrap around and meet down here…at the bottom of the planet.…And in our case, they don't match up at all.…And we can resolve this by first,…double clicking on the background…here inside the layers panel.…And I'll go ahead and call this new layer Offset,…