Creating a Chrome Sphere or Mirror Ball

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Nov 28, 2007
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I am looking for either a plugin or a way to make a circular selection in a photoshop image and turn it into a shiny circular object that looks like a chrome ball with the selection inside it. Can anyone tell me a quick way to do this or perhaps an action that will accomplish this.

Thanks.
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tony cooper
Nov 28, 2007
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:20:26 -0800 (PST), wrote:

I am looking for either a plugin or a way to make a circular selection in a photoshop image and turn it into a shiny circular object that looks like a chrome ball with the selection inside it. Can anyone tell me a quick way to do this or perhaps an action that will accomplish this.

photo_sphere.atn does something like this, but I don’t know where to find it. Someone listed it here some time ago, but I don’t recall who.

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pico
Nov 28, 2007
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I am looking for either a plugin or a way to make a circular selection in a photoshop image and turn it into a shiny circular object that looks like a chrome ball with the selection inside it. Can anyone tell me a quick way to do this or perhaps an action that will accomplish this.

Select a round area (Elliptical Marque – hold Shift while selecting) Copy to new layer
Filter – Distort – Spherize (slider all the way to the left) Copy that to new layer
Then mess with Filter Gallery – Chrome then transparency of the layer
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ronviers
Nov 28, 2007
On Nov 28, 8:20 am, wrote:
I am looking for either a plugin or a way to make a circular selection in a photoshop image and turn it into a shiny circular object that looks like a chrome ball with the selection inside it. Can anyone tell me a quick way to do this or perhaps an action that will accomplish this.

Thanks.

Hi,
I doubt that either of these are what you are looking for but maybe they will give you some ideas.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/orbs/orbs.htm

http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut009.htm

It is difficult to make a 2d image look pleasant using real physics, although PS can definitely do it, because that is not how reality works. In reality the reflections in a mirror ball is an inverted mirror ball – not a photo. But if you really want to do it in a mathematically correct way then go to filterforge.com and search for sphere – uberzev and byRo have interesting solutions.

Good luck with your project,
Ron
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KatWoman
Nov 30, 2007
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On Nov 28, 8:20 am, wrote:
I am looking for either a plugin or a way to make a circular selection in a photoshop image and turn it into a shiny circular object that looks like a chrome ball with the selection inside it. Can anyone tell me a quick way to do this or perhaps an action that will accomplish this.

Thanks.

Hi,
I doubt that either of these are what you are looking for but maybe they will give you some ideas.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/orbs/orbs.htm

http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut009.htm

It is difficult to make a 2d image look pleasant using real physics, although PS can definitely do it, because that is not how reality works. In reality the reflections in a mirror ball is an inverted mirror ball – not a photo. But if you really want to do it in a mathematically correct way then go to filterforge.com and search for sphere – uberzev and byRo have interesting solutions.

Good luck with your project,
Ron

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