Photoshop: Create spherical images - how it works
Creating a spherical image with Photoshop is not that difficult. We show you the individual steps in our instructions and a detailed picture gallery.
Create a spherical image with Photoshop - the instructions
We will show you all the steps again in detail in our picture gallery.
- Open the photo or picture in Photoshop. Duplicate the layer in the layer window.
- Switch to the copy of the layer and use the selection tool to draw a circle selection over the desired area. If you hold down the [Shift] key, the selection becomes a perfect circle.
- A dialog box opens via the menu "Filter"> "Distortion filter"> "Bulge". Select the strength 100% and the mode "normal" and confirm the process.
- Now copy the selection to the clipboard with the key combination [Str] + [C]. Switch to the background layer and paste the copy from the clipboard so that a new layer is created. You can now delete the other level.
- Use the "Edit"> "Transform" menu to select "Scale". Reduce the size of the selection picture and place it at the desired location in the picture. Always hold down the [Shift] key, otherwise there will be distortion.
- Switch to the background layer. Use the selection tool to cut the image to the desired size.
- The background should be blurry with spherical images. To do this, select the menu "Filter"> "Soft focus"> "Gaussian soft focus". In our example we have set a radius of 10.
Spherical image with Photoshop - the finishing touch
Now you have already created a spherical picture. However, the ball still lacks plasticity. Put the finishing touches to the picture with a few small subtleties:
- Navigate to Filters> Rendering Filters> Lighting Effects. Here you can play around with the settings until you achieve the desired effect.
- The sphere becomes even more plastic with the post exposure tool. You can find it in the toolbar by holding down the Dodge tool until the context menu appears. Duplicate the first layer (with the ball) and apply the post-exposure. To do this, trace the edge of the ball a little. The post-exposure settings should be 35 px in size and 0% sharpness.
- Finally, you can use "Filters"> "Rendering Filters"> "Aperture Effects" to set an aperture effect.
- In our picture gallery we show you the individual steps again in detail.