A glass sphere reflecting a rectangular photo

[Paul Bruneau]

Hello Everybody,

I have in mind a glass globe reflecting a rectangular photo. I'm doing OK with the "glass sphere" but I'm lost on the "rectangular photo" part.

Can someone direct me to a tutorial that will explain how to mess with the photo part?
( I can't seem to match the 3-D curvature of the sphere to the photo part )

I have looked through the tutorials on http://xaraxone.com/tutorials/ but didn't see anything there that I could use.
There are several un-editable examples in the "On-Line Catalogue" from Pixabay that I would like to emulate. Like this:




I just need to know how?

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Paul, haven't got time to experiment to much atm but try the fisheye FX filter.

[gwpriester]

Use the Photo Tool > FX > Deformation > Bump & Dent filter. The Fisheye does not do as good a job. But make sure your photo is cropped as a square.

I added a duplicate of the spherical photo, applied a Multiply > Circular transparency and reversed the start and end settings.

[Paul Bruneau]

Thanks, Egg

A "fisheye" gives me a place to start.

Thanks again for the tip

[handrawn]

@Gary - very nice effect on the left, well chosen photo with the clouds

[gwpriester]

I live in the land of clouds. :-)

[handrawn]

so I understand but so far away from the ocean I would pine... still it looks very scenic and peaceful where you are - I went to albuquerque back in the seventies, but never went out of the city and remember nothing, c'est la vie

[Acorn]

Paul, here is a cheat that you can at least dissect.

Fisheye.xar

I used https://ericleong.me/fisheye.js/ with the Primary image and twiddled with the distortion control.
Copy the distorted Fisheye and paste onto your design.

I created a square, rounded to a circle and then added a circular stepped transparency and again twiddled until I got a 'crystal ball' effect. I added Glow shadow to block most of the transparency revealing the underlying image.

The primary image was scaled up as a fisheye gets to show more of a scene.

The Method
Add the Primary to fisheye.js to get the Fisheye.
Drop the new Primary onto the old large one.
Drop the new Fisheye onto the old sphere.
Adjust Fill scale and position for both.
Reposition the Fisheye over the Primary.



Acorn

[gwpriester]

so I understand but so far away from the ocean I would pine...

Not to hijack Paul's thread but . . . I grew up in Southern California and went to the beach every day in summer (I have probably put my dermatologist's son through college on all the skin cancers he has had to remove.) Later I lived on top of a hill in Palos Verdes at the south end of the Santa Monica Bay and we overlooked the ocean all the way up to Malibu and downtown Los Angeles. In the 80s we lived in Northern California and we had a view of the top of the San Francisco Bay. Plus, I commuted for 16 years into San Francisco. So my ocean quotient is good.

[handrawn]

yes sorry paul, but you already have some good guidence here, better than I could give...

So my ocean quotient is good

and very glamorous too

[my how 'frisco has changed ]