How To Edit 360 Spherical PANORAMAS in Photoshop CC – BEST Non-Destructive Workflow
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- 0:00 Introduction
- 0:30 Importing 360 Panos into Photoshop
- 1:22 Navigating Through 360 Panos in Photoshop
- 2:46 Painting and Editing 360 Panos
- 4:35 Non-Destructive Workflow
- 6:45 Working with filters and Spherical Panoramas
- 8:55 Applying text or logos to 360 Panoramas in Photoshop
- 11:13 Removing tripods from 360 Panoramas in Photoshop
- 11:58 Making animated gifs from 360 panoramas
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Warning: Adobe has removed 3D from Photoshop. The 3D workspace used in this tutorial began to be retired in Photoshop 22.5 (August 2021), and the legacy 3D feature set was removed completely in July 2024. You cannot follow these steps in current versions of Photoshop. This tutorial is kept as a record of how the technique worked. For 3D work today, Adobe points people to Substance 3D.
In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn to edit 360 Spherical Panoramas in Photoshop nondestructively.
How to Make 360 Spherical Panoramas
To make a 360 Panorama you can use one of the many off-the-shelf panorama cameras out there. However, at this time, Photoshop can only handle equirectangular spherical panoramas. One device that generates such images is the Richo Theta, which is the camera that I used to capture the photo in this tutorial.
Alternatively, you could use your cell phone. My Google pixels phone can create 360 Spherical Panoramas by taking multiple photos and stitching them together.
Opening Your 360 Panoramas In Photoshop
There two ways you in which you can open your image in Photoshop.
First, you can use the File > Open and select your image. Then go into 3D > Spherical Panorama > New Panorama Layer From Selected Layer.
You can also directly load a spherical panorama into the viewer using 3D->Spherical Panorama->Import Panorama…
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