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December 24, 2016
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How to view photospheres in photoshop?

  • December 24, 2016
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I am taking photospheres for google street view and I want to be able to pan and tilt around like in google photos so that I could blur faces and car plate numbers.

Viewing it in google photos is perfectly fine but viewing it in photoshop gives me a flat jpeg, is there a plugin, script, or something that allows me to do this?

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    Franck Payen
    Inspiring
    October 31, 2017

    One year later, don't know if you're still in the the need and if you updated your graphics card, but the Photoshop team added an easy workflow for 360 :

    360 panorama workflow

    Edit and export 360 panoramas. Photoshop will maintain important metadata to work with third-party viewers. You can also pan and zoom around your image inside a spherical workspace for a realistic preview experience.

    Photoshop CC new features | More library asset support

    and

    Create and edit a panorama in Photoshop

    davescm
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 24, 2016

    Hi

    For blurring faces , number plates etc I would do that on the 2D opened layer.

    Yo view the sphere:

    With the layer selected go to 3D - New Mesh from Layer - Mesh Preset - Spherical Panorama

    When looking around use the camera orbit control so that you stay viewing from the centre of the sphere. If you move the camera or object you could come out of the sphere.

    To widen the view go to Current view in the 3D panel , then in properties change FOV (field of view) value

    Dave

    MrHomerAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    December 24, 2016

    I don't seem to have the 3D tab

    JJMack
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 24, 2016

    Photoshop 3D is a Photoshop extended Feature requires a supported GPU  support in you OS and enabled for use in your Photoshop preferences. You can see here CS6 Extended screen capture.

    JJMack
    JJMack
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 24, 2016

    There were some for Photoshop if I remember correctly.  In Panorama  tools by Professor Helmut Dersch of the University of Applied Sciences Furtwange.  They would rotate and transform the stitch spherical panorama around in Photoshop like the Spherical viewers do. So you could work on the severely distorted persoective view Area in a view the corrected to a normal perspective. 

    You may want to look at Panorama Tools  for the Photoshop Plug-ins.   I do not know if they will function in new versions of Photoshop or if they are 32Bit Plug-ins or 64Bit plug-in versions of the plug-ins.  The Package is quite old....

    JJMack