CASE STUDY: the glass sphere effect

[ronmatt]

here's another glass ball. If you want, I'll show you how

 

[theKeeper]

That has a nice look to it ron.

And i also like the Terragen scene behind it too.

 

[Sean]

Whoa, I sorta forgot about this thread! But hey, nice ball there Ron. Did you just sphereize? Don't mean to rain on your parade, but thats the cheater way. Also, I took a glass marble and held it up and it actually reverses the image behind it, but only at a distance. I tried what Moth did, but it just looked wierd. Displacement is tricky. [confused] Anyway, I never got it to work right so if anyone could help with that displacement mojo then I'd be really thankful. I'd still like to see an example... :{

 

[ronmatt]

I did spherize, however, if you look closely at the ball, you'll notice that the image inside conforms to the sphere's 3d shape. It aslo condenses as it wraps to the back of the ball. Before I used the spherize, I did some pre-distortion to the image in order to acheive a more realistic result.

 

[ranger72]

Hi Guys,

have not been around in some time and was lurking; saw the keeper's tute on glass sphere's and thought I'd post this one.The distortion is accomplished by edit transforming and spherizing..It was fun to do.


ranger72

 

[Moth]

I really like this ranger72! Good job.

 

[ranger72]

Thank you Moth


There is a tute if anyone is interested.

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

ranger72 8))