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These interesting photos go by various namings -polar panorama, panorama and polar, little planet, planet panoramas, 360 degree panorama, etc but they all mean the same thing. It is created with a panorama photo under one of Photoshop’s Distort filter, Polar Coordinates.

They are not as hard to create as they looked. In this article, we attempt to show you how some of the nicest Polar Panorama photos we’ve found, together with Photoshop tutorials to that help you to create them. Full list after jump.

Merdeka Square
by riefa

Baroque Planet
by Simon The Fox

The Planet of Detroit
by firelog1970

The 99th Planet
by jeckham

Sydney Polar Panorama
by datazoid

Roudnice Railway Station
by miniplaneter

Sultan Ahmet Polar Panaroma
by Nikolof

PlanetIMAX
by olliollio

Planet of Perth
by scotteek

Planet New York
by isaac-and-his-mind

Planet Mars Cyvilization
by hot360

Planet Kharkiv
by mudakisa

Paris s’éveille
by gadl

My Little World
by smileyno1

Minatomirai Bridge
by drachenman

Manhattan Skyline
by Athalfred

Lightning Ridge
by datazoid

Interact Globe
by Sarah Lee

Hamburg Rathausplatz Planet
by konderminator

Eglise Lumière
by clic me

Berlin Alex Polar Pano
by suckup

Eglise Notre-Dame
by jeromebg

How to create one?

These tutorials are created with Photoshop with your existing panorama photos. If Photoshop is not at your disposal, try usng GIMP

Create your very own planet
Rames of Adobetuts gives you an idea how to create a polar panorama in 10 simple steps.

How to Create Your Own Planets Using Your Panorama
Another great Photoshop tutorial by Photojojo.

More Examples

Flickr: Create Your Own Planets
Flickr group with more than 2300 members sharing about 6000 polar panorama photos.

Flickr: Polar Panoramas - A smaller group but yet sharing some really stunning photos.

Compfight Search - Random search with CompFight Flickr Search

World’s best photo of panorama and polar

We’ve previously showcased some really nice Mac wallpapers and Windows wallpapers. This time around we want to give Ubuntu a try. This following entry is dedicated to all you Ubuntu users. We figured you could wear it proud and for starters, a nice Ubuntu wallpaper on the desktop.

Finding sets of nice looking Ubuntu wallpapers was one challenging task and here’s what we managed to collect - 60 Beautiful Ubuntu Desktop Wallpapers. Full list after jump.

Wordpress is no doubt one powerful blogging platform but the problem is if you don’t customized your theme you end up having the same layout as some others out there. This week we are giving away 3x Premium Wordpress themes of your choice (Flash Wordpress themes included!). Meaning, you picked them, and if you win, we’ll send that theme your way. Courtesy of FlashMint.

So if you are looking for a change to your Wordpress blog and not going to settle for some common themes, read on.

Who’s FlashMint

Folks at FlashMint create some of the highest quality web templates on the web with great varieties. They do Flash, Swish, CSS, Flash CMS, Joomla, Html, osCommerce templates and of course, Wordpress themes which we’ll be giving away today. You’ll be surprised with the number of thematic categories of web templates available for download at FlashMint.com.

How To Win

Together with FlashMint, we are giving away 3 Premium Wordpress themes of your choice. Here’s what you’ll do:

1. Check out the themes (http://bit.ly/acz3u)
2. Tell us which theme you like and why, in comment box below.

3 commentators with the best answers walk away with theme of their choice. Contest close next Monday, 27th April 2008. Good luck guys!

Update: Contest is now closed.

Whether you are a designer, a web developer just somebody who owns a laptop, you deserved to have that unique personality whenever you carry your laptop with you. When you purchase a laptop, you’ll usually be given a default laptop sleeve (or bag) but that also means that whoever bought the exact same model will have the same bag.

There are a lot of really nice sleek and cool laptop sleeves and bag out there, and chances are one must be perfect for your machine. If you want to be slightly different from the rest of the crowd, we want to show you some laptop sleeves and bag we thought really nice and purchasable. Here’s 50+ Cool Laptop Sleeves and Bags You Can Buy. Full list after jump.

Note: The price stated here are taken from stores we cross-referenced and it might varies from store to store. Hongkiat.com has no affiliation with these stores or whatsoever.

Snupped | $35 - $50
Offers more than 20 attractive and colorful laptop sleeves. You can even build your own custom laptop sleeves!

My Documents Laptop Sleeve | $29.99
It’s rare to have a laptop inside My Document.

Cassette Tape Tote Bag | $11.99
Isn’t exactly meant for laptop, but it would be cool to carry around.

Juicy Couture ‘Strawberry Fields’ Laptop Sleeve | $N/A
For those who love Juicy Couture, this is a must have.

Kailo Chic | $29.99
7 laptop sleeves to add flair to your business wardrobe.

Inter-departmental Mail Italian Leather Laptop Sleeve | $80.00
Just don’t send it away like your usual mail.

Velvetidole | €69.00 - €145.00
High quality leather calf laptop bags.

Fabrix Laptop Sleeves | $35.00 - $50.00
Our fav on the store is black angus, but there’s another 11 more. Available in different sizes.

Red Maloo laptop Sleeve | $130.00
Utmost unique laptop sleeve. Comes in 4 different colors.

Built NY 15-inch Laptop Sleeve | $14.99
Felling retro, anyone?

Casauri Laptop Brief | €49.90
Funky design laptop case. Fits up to a 15 incher.

AppleSac The Original | $29.99
This stylish and functional sleeve is made from burlap and 100% polyester sherpa fleece. Click here to see more.

AppleSac Red Delicious | $29.99
The Red Delicious is lined with thick brown 100% polyester sherpa fleece that will soundly protect your MacBook.

Proporta Protective Laptop Sleeve | €19.95
The Protective Laptop Sleeve 13" provides essential protection against scratches and impact damage, whilst storing your laptop safely away when not in use.

Reversible Anti-Shock Sleeve Case | $12.95
Reversible Purple and Black colored stylish laptop sleeve. Excellent for any occasion, whether you are at working, in school or traveling.

Easy Laptop Sleeve | €59.00
Simple hard graft design at it’s core - premium asphalt dyed 100% wool felt perfectly harmonizes the cognac leather tab and the feature red/white ribbon.

2UNFOLD Multi-use Leather Laptop Bag | €349.00
This bag is something of a sartorial transformer, the 2UNFOLD offers eight different ways for you to sport it:

Foof Macbook Sleeves | $25
Foof has great range of beautiful laptop sleeves, and here are two we really like.

ACME x Paul Smith Laptop Bag | $139.99
Laptop Sleeve Bag in Stripe print by Acme Made in collaboration with Paul Smith.

Onyx Houndstooth | $49.00
Customizable to fit your laptop size.

Denim Black Laptop Sleeve | $39.90
Inside each sleeve is a soft nylon loop that allows keyrings, carabineers and lanyards to be attached.

Sumo Camo Mini Laptop Sleeve | $17.99
Design to fit the 10 inchers.

Bumper Laptop Sleeve | $29.99
Designed to take the hits for your laptop whether you’re traversing the urban jungle or doing battle on the road.

Cargo Laptop Sleeves | $40.00 - $50.00
Available in 3 different colors and sizes. It’s not only a laptop sleeve, it holds your other accessories like mouse, external HD and flash drives too.

Belkin Quilted Carrying Case | $29.99
Come in blue, black and pink color.

AirMail | $34.00
Perfect for Macbook Air.

Vyper M3 | $49.95
Vyper M3 is a compact and durable sleeve with a slick, rugged exterior and a non-scratch interior designed to protect your laptop against scratches and excessive wear.

Robot Laptop Sleeve | $40.00
Made of high quality vinyl and padded with 1/2 fabric backed foam.

9-5 Laptop Sleeve | $40.00
A laptop sleeve that you can bring with you to corporate America.

MacTruck | $249.95
Professional-grade, work-in enclosure - a whole new way to use and protect your notebook computer.

Laptop Backpack | $80.00
The Laptop Backpack has your back—and will keep your computer safe and secure.

InCase Slim Sleeve | $34.95
Incase offers range of laptop sleeves and other product in various of colors, and what we showed you here is just one color of a particular sleeve.

Lots of wonderful things happen around us all the time; being able to see is easy, but being able to capture that very moment is probably the hardest part. A good photo comprise of many things, not only you must hit the shutter at the right time and moment, the perspective, composition and color coordination plays a big role too.

Being a good photographer is not easy, let alone getting to that professional level. This weekend, we want you introduce you some of the greatest photographers around the globe and their awesome portfolios. We hope you’ll be able to get some sort of inspiration from their work. In no particular order, here’s 50 Great Photographers You Should Know. Full list after jump.

CirilJazbec

“Do everything for what you dream or think that is in your strenghts! There are hiding geniality, strength and magic in the courage.” CirilJazbec

David Lindsey Wade

David Lindsey Wade made a few important choices during his prime teen rebellious years. Raised by a pair of artist, his way of challenging his parents (who were already a bit off the grid) was to embrace his attraction to speed and excitement through his passion for machines.

Senol Zorlu

egofoto.net presents selected photographers by senol zorlu. The focus liew on potraying people, places and their cultures. egofoto is an independent and headstrong project. The photos display the expression of a personal view of people and instances.

Lee Towndrow

Lee Towndrow was a designer upon starting out. Made album covers. Was moved by kissing robots to become flame*artist. Built a darkroom, made bread (the kind you eat). Moved to Buenos Aires to try to grow up. Learned Spanish, loved, lost. Worked with great artists. Became a photographer.

Lyndon Wade

Lyndon Wade’s Vibrant compositions often depict subjects in a kind of suspended animation; their halted motion suggests a larger narrative in the space of a single incident.

Kalle Gustafsson

Henrik Knudsen

YURI YASUDA

Koen Demuynck

Interesting photography.

Sarah Cheng-De Winne

Sarah Cheng-De Winne is a freelance photographer-artist specializes in portraiture, fashion and conceptual photography and keen to discover new ways of representing identities through photography.

Dimitris Theocharis

Luigi Bussolati

Edlo Kawa

Cornelia Adams

Founded 20 years ago by Cornelia Adams, as an agency representing photographers whose work appeared as editorials in magazines.

Simon Hoegsberg

We’re All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence. This image is 100 meters long (100mX78m) is surely one hell of a work.

TOM KAN

Thomas Kettner

Thomas Kettner, photographer and BFF board member from Stuttgart, Germany. His talent: beauty, hair and fashion for women and men.

Andrew G. Hobbs

New Zealand born photographer, arrived in London from Sydney in 1992 to pursue a career in the international portrait market which has included covers for Esquire, Rolling Stones, The Sunday Times Style, editorial for i-D and etc.

Aaron Ruell Photography

Timothy Hogan

Joel Rhodin

Florian Ritter

Kazuha Matsumoto

Ben Hassett

Francois-Xavier Marciat

Francois-Xavier Marciat . Photographer . Expo . Photography . Landscapes and lovely vues . Belgium

Nicholas Samaras

Nicholas Samaras is a new underwater photographer, but he made an impressive entrance in underwater photography area in Greece and out of his country borders.

Alex Prager

Cinematic and darkly playful The Big Valley is a series of highly saturated staged portraits by Los Angeles based artist, Alex Prager.

Erik

Björn Lofterud

Quentin Shih

A Chinese photographer based in Beijing, China, specializes in fine art, editorial, fashion, advertising photography.

Mike Walsen

Robin Skjoldborg

Michael Didonna

Ryan Pavlovich

Alessandro Rocchi

Alessandro Rocchi is an Italian photographer based in Pesaro (on Adriatic sea) near rimini and ancona. He does commercial work as well as ‘art’.

Gilles Abenhaim

Natasha Gudermane

Simon Powell

Working mainly with models, Simon is renowned for his ease of style and real approach to commissions. He is passionate about his work and brings much more to shoots than just a photograph.

Adam Von Mack

Seb Janiak

Carlo Bellavia

Carlo Bellavia’s portfolio is presented in the official website through a gallery of his most beautiful photos.

Martin Amis

Zhang Jingna

Something Beautiful, a photography exhibition by Zhang Jingna

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Cristof Echard - Photographe

Vitor Shalom

Hirano Aichi

Alexandra Hager

Bagrad Badalian

Hervé lefebvre

Hervé Lefebvre, specialist advertising photographer, is proud to present a selection from his current portfolio of different commissions (clients, magazines and agencies) and invites you also to preview some of his private work. His studio is based in Bordeaux.

Pierre Choiniere

Pierre Choiniere is a photographer based in Montreal.

Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Born in Japan in 1970. AFter graduating “The Technical School of Photography”, gained experience as a publishing and editing -related photographer before turning freelance in 1993.

Michael David Adams

Last but not least

We’ve added another 3 more to the list. If you know any good photographer with great portfolios that is worth featuring, please let us know. Have a great weekend ahead.

Update: We received massive input of suggestions for more greater photographers. We’d like to thank you you the recommendations and we’ll create another sequel featuring these great dudes. While we are working on it, you can subscribe to our RSS feed to get first hand notification when entry is released.