Tiny Planet Maker

The tiny planet look is pure math — stereographic projection wraps the left and right edges of your panorama together and pinches the top of the frame into the planet's center. That means the single biggest quality factor isn't the tool, it's the source photo. Shoot a full 360-degree sweep, keep the phone level (a tilted sweep makes a lopsided planet), and put the horizon roughly in the vertical middle of the frame so sky and ground split the planet evenly.

Watch the seam: whatever was at the start and end of your sweep gets stitched together, so avoid starting on a person or a distinctive object — begin and end on plain sky, water or a uniform wall and the join disappears. Overhead elements like trees, bridges and street lamps become the dramatic spikes radiating from the planet's edge, so city squares and forests make spectacular subjects while empty beaches make serene ones.

The wormhole invert is the same projection mirrored: instead of the sky pinching into the center, the ground does, and the sky becomes the outer ring. It turns tunnels, archways and forest clearings into genuinely surreal images. Zoom is your framing tool — zoom in to crop a distracting seam or foreground object out of the planet's edge, zoom out to keep more of the original scene. Because rendering happens locally and costs nothing, the right workflow is to render, tweak, and render again until the planet looks intentional.