Flaming Pear Software’s premier panoramic tool is Flexify 2. It is a highly specialized Adobe Photoshop plugin designed to distort, bend, and remap full-sphere panoramic images into hundreds of unique geometric shapes, projections, and cartographic styles. Core Capabilities of Flexify 2
Nadir and Zenith Retouching: Photographers widely use it to flatten the top (zenith) or bottom (nadir) of an equirectangular HDRI map to easily stamp or clone out tripod legs and camera equipment.
Massive Projection Library: It supports 500 different output projections, including stereographic “little planets”, cube maps, Omnimax, Lego blueprints, geodesic spheres, origami folds, and standard cartographic maps.
Versatile Inputs: It accepts 34 types of input formats, such as cylindrical, mirror ball, polar, fisheye, and equirectangular panoramas.
Advanced Export Options: You can export custom-sized PSD files, create LDraw files, or output polyhedra directly to 3D formats like STL, OBJ, DXF, and Mathematica.
High-Fidelity Color: The plugin fully supports 8, 16, and 32-bit HDR images, ensuring no loss in color depth when stretching high-dynamic-range panoramas. Companion Tools & Free Options
If you are experimenting with panoramic photography or imagery, Flaming Pear Software also offers alternative options:
Ornament (Freebie): A free plugin included in their Freebies Pack that specifically unwraps the reflection from a mirrored ball into a flat panorama.
Flood 2: Often bundled with or used alongside Flexify, Flood 2 lets you add hyper-realistic water surfaces and perspective-accurate horizon reflections to your newly flattened panoramas. Pricing and Availability Flaming Pear
Flexify 2 Photoshop plug-in for panoramas, polyhedra, and maps