Making a "Little Planet"

I used Affinity Photo, but Photoshop can do this, too.

I started with a panorama made of three shots from the DJI Mini 2 drone. Any panorama will work, for example, you can capture a nice panorama with many phones. It is not necessary that the panorama be 360º; that depends on what you want to accomplish with the final shot. But it should be long enough to work when you make it into a circle as above.

These steps are for Affinity Photo; Photoshop also has similar tools.

1. Capture or make a panorama.

   

2. Flip the pano top to bottom (Flip vertical: ground up, sky down)

   

3. Duplicate one edge of the pano, flip horizontally, and move to the other edge.

4. Erase or clone the duplicated edge to make it blend in smoothly.

5. Squeeze the panorama into a square. (Resize, using the image height as the new image width; turn off any link between those two things.)

6. Convert from rectangular to polar coordinates.

The resulting image is your Little Planet.