Square to Round: Easy Spheres

It’s simple to convert a square picture to a round picture by simply making a circular selection and adding a mask. However, how about converting a square image to a sphere? Here’s a trick to keep things looking good.

1. Open a square image in Photoshop or crop an image to a square. (If the image has layers, flatten or merge the layers to apply the effect to the image as a whole.)

2. Image> Canvas Size. Increase the size of the canvas to 150%. (We’re using PhotoSpin’s image #0370029.)

3. Filter> Distort> Spherize. Drag the slider all the way to the right and leave the pop-up menu set to Normal.

4. The resulting image isn’t completely round, so use the keyboard shortcut Command-F (Mac) or Control-F (Windows) to apply the filter again with the same settings.

5. Image> Image Size can reduce your image to the original size. Check the Constrain Proportions and Resample boxes. In the upper part of the dialog box, switch from Pixels to Percent. Enter 66.67% and click OK. Here’s a comparison of the before and after images.

Spread the word:

2 Comments

Jen said on — July 23, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

thank you! excellent, easy to follow step by step instructions.
cheers
Sab said on — October 8, 2008 @ 5:04 pm

that was easy! but i would like to know how to convert a square image into a heart like figure.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Photoshop Tutorials

Design Effects
Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos.
Stylized Comic Book Effect
Using this effect, you can transform anyone into a comic book character with a halftone, saturated look.
Text Shape Layers
Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.

More Design Effects

Corey takes this image and adds some cool design effects.
It’s Curtains For You

Creating Cool stage Curtains as a Background Effect.
Animated Snow

Celebrate the holiday season by learning how to use Photoshop to create falling snow over your favorite holiday image.
Retro Text

Corey goes back a few decades in style and explains how to create this groovy text design.

Adobe Bridge and PDFs
In addition to providing integration between all the Creative Suite applications, Adobe Bridge also gives an array of tools and methods for opening, viewing, and even creating PDF documents.
Dreamweaver Slide Shows: Quick and Creative
Today, there are a gazillion photos on the Web and almost as many ways to publish them online.
Fireworks 101
Tom Green is really enjoying the new CS4 version of Fireworks. In this tutorial, he goes over some of the features that help with fast prototyping, like the fit canvas button and the optimizing panel.
Using Subclips in Premiere Pro
Subclips are smaller parts of the bigger project. Use the Make Subclip command early and save yourself some time when you get to the timeline.

Modify Textures on 3D Objects

If you have imported a 3D object that has a texture applied to it, that texture will show up as a sublayer with your 3D layer. To modify or replace the existing texture, simply double-click directly on the texture name in the Layers panel. A dialog will open with the 2D texture. Make whatever changes you need, then close and save the document. Just like a Smart Object, it will update automatically in the main document.

Photoshop Tutorials, Tips, and News | Planet Photoshop

Square to Round: Easy Spheres

2 Comments

Leave a comment

Photoshop Tutorials

Modify Textures on 3D Objects