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Jan 30, 2020 13:04:05   #
tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana
 
Thanks for the image and the tutorial! Very cool!

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Jan 30, 2020 14:42:17   #
Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas
 
Your welcome Tommy

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Jan 30, 2020 17:34:29   #
Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)
 
Jim-Pops wrote:
Shooting with the glass ball is fun but your image is upside down. The image is so much easer to view if you rotate the ball.

Here was my process for making this picture. Depending on you skill level with photoshop this could be basic and nothing new but others have wanted to learn more about layers and different tools.

Steps I did to rotate the ball using Photoshop CC on a MacBook. PCs might have you to hold a different key for some of the moves.
1) Open Photo
2) Make a duplicate layer
3) Grab your Elliptical Marquee tool. Move your tool to the upper left of the ball. Hold the Shift key and drag the mouse down to lower right. Holding the shift key keeps the tool as a circle. You might have to do this a few time to get close to the proper size of the ball. As you complete making the selection you will see what they call marching ants. Make sure you blow up your picture so you can see the edges between the marching ants and the ball. When I did it my marching ants indicated the selection was too small. To fix this Go to Selection>Modify>Expand. It will ask you how many pixels to expand. When I did it I expanded 4 Pixels. Now look and see if it was a enough. When I did it I had to do expand 3 or 4 more times to get it right.
4) Now that you have the selection make a copy of it Command C. Add a new blank layer. Now paste the selection Command V.
5) Now you have to rotate this new ball Layer. Hold Command T to activate the transform tool. Grab a corner and pull it around 180 degrees.
6) Next move is up to you. You will need a Lens Flair brush. I got mine by going on my internet browser and searched for "Lens Flair Brush Photoshop." Choices will come up and I chose Brusheezy for free brushes to download and install.
7) Now that you have the brushes installed pick one I think mine was #3000. Make a new layer. Make sure your color for the brush is white. Position it over the upper left corner, have brush set to 100% and hit once. I now went to the brush tool in the upper left screen hit and opened it then rotated the brush about an 1/8 of a turn. Now went back to my layer and hit the same spot again.
8) I thought my lens flair was to sharp so I added gaussian blur to my lens flair layer, about 5 pixels

If you want to try this process you can download my picture and rotate the ball back to the proper position upside down.
Shooting with the glass ball is fun but your image... (show quote)


Hi, Jim,
Beautifully rendered glass ball and great tutorial !
Dave

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Jan 30, 2020 18:26:08   #
cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast
 
Great explanation, Jim! I have a glass ball and have planned to do some shots with it. I knew it inverted the image as it is a simple lens. I intended to invert the ball image in my prints as you have done and you saved me the problem of figuring it out by myself! Many Thanks!.

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Jan 30, 2020 18:30:17   #
Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas
 
Uuglypher wrote:
Hi, Jim,
Beautifully rendered glass ball and great tutorial !
Dave


Thanks Dave👍

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Jan 30, 2020 18:31:00   #
Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas
 
cambriaman wrote:
Great explanation, Jim! I have a glass ball and have planned to do some shots with it. I knew it inverted the image as it is a simple lens. I intended to invert the ball image in my prints as you have done and you saved me the problem of figuring it out by myself! Many Thanks!.


Glad I could help.
Jim

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