Composite Image - Planet Folly

[Brian_Innes]

I’ve spent a bit of time reworking one of my “Little Planet” panoramas of a local Folly. The sky was somewhat boring, so I replaced it with a copyright free image of the sky at night! And Who is that in the background?

Looks quite good even although it is my first real attempt at composite images in Gimp.

Out of interest, I’ve submitted this image to my photography clubs Christmas Knockout Competition I wonder how it will get on?

[rgo (Rafa García)]

Doctor, doctor!!

[chroma_ghost]

@Brian_Innes for the top of the tree

It inmediately triggered Isao Tomita’s ,-)

[paperdigits (Mica)]

Awesome!

What is causing the white ring?

[Brian_Innes]

@paperdigits, just a clever mask which fades out the blue sky in the original tiny planet panorama into the star field in the background layer. A combination of a mask created using a greyscale version of the source panoramic image, then created a mask using threshold. Then added a circular gradient into the mask.