Stuck with large Panorama

[testbloke]

Took shots from a mountain peak on Monday covering the full 360 degrees. I have now stitched the total 29 images in photoshop as a (very large !) straight Panorama. This I saved as a tiff and now have a very long 240mb tiff file.
I next wanted to try and manipulate the image to get the ends to join, leaving me a round picture (like a polo mint).
I believe polar distort is the command but it is not allowing me to use this on this file.

Is it just due to the file size ? If so, how do I reduce. It is currently also not allowing me to save as a jpg.

Please help, it is very much appreciated.

 

[Lester]

I'm not sure about your Polar Distort question, but reason you can't save as a jpg is probably you have the 29 images on multiple layers. You will need to flatten the layers first before you can save as a jpg. Before you do that, I would save your file first as a PSD file, thus retaining the layered information and you can come back to the file later. Once flattened there is no going back.

 

[Blue Eagle]

I rekon it isn't letting you save as a jpeg because it is a 16bit image. If you click image --> mode --> 8bit, then you can save in a larger range of formats.

As for making a polo mint, i'll have to leave that to someone else

 

[testbloke]

Guys, thanks for the replies, I can confirm the layers had been flattened and the file was an 8 bit tiff. Definately seems to be file size related, I reduced the image to 50% (now an 84meg tiff) and everything is okay.

Now, back to the polomint ? (photosphere?). I just wanted to pull the long image round then fill the hole in the middle with a straight doen shot I took (Nadir). I had been told to free transform the panorama to make it square then use filter/distort/polar co-ordintes to wrap it in a circle. Problem is, when I do this it does not join properly. :bang:

 

[hdseven]

u will have to do some magic with the clone tool if ** trying to do *** i think and make a little planet??

 

[testbloke]

u will have to do some magic with the clone tool if ** trying to do *** i think and make a little planet??

Yeah, little planet. I found a thread on here which got me in the right direction ...

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36985&highlight=planets

 

[Cistron]

I've bookmarked this some while ago: http://ultrawide.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/how-to-create-a-little-planet-using-hugin/

 

[testbloke]

I've bookmarked this some while ago: http://ultrawide.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/how-to-create-a-little-planet-using-hugin/

Thanks for that, that is helpfull. As I suspected, my lens is not wide enough, I need to take two sets of 360 degrees images, one pointing slightly down, then second set pointing up but overlapping first set. Will give this a go next time.