Photoshop Fun: Spherize An Image
Select the part of the image that you want to ‘Spherize’, using the Marquee tool from the toolbox’s top-left side. (The Marquee tool is pointed with the red arrow and the part of image that I want to Spherize is selected with the elliptical marquee tool in the picture below.
Click the Filter tab, go to Distort and then click Spherize.
The Spherize titled window appears showing the preview of the effect. Inside this window beneath the preview are two buttons for zooming in/out the preview. Also, in this window, there is a slider called amount slider, drag that slider to your desired amount of distortion. There is a mode bar with other spherizing types, I left it for you to check them out yourself.
Click OK. Tada!
Here note that the amount of distortion ranges from -100 to 0 to 100. Moving from 0 to the left gives your image a concave effect. This concave effect goes on increasing as we drag the slider towards the negative extreme -100 until we reach it, the point where the concave effect is maximum. Same goes for the right side with the only exception of effect which here should be of course, convex.
I spherized the Tower of Pisa with the convex effect leaving the concave part for you.
This post is aimed at having fun with the very basics of Photoshop. I see myself as a beginner photoshop user. This great program can much easily be learn playing with it like that in this post. Make your thoughtful comments did you like the post and how did I demonstrated in the post? Should I continue with it?
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April 9th, 2008 at 8:37 am
omg what you’ve done with pisa tower lol nice trick by the way will come handy in many ways