How to create a kind of 'Globe Contour Effect' ?

[tomB]

Hey there,

I am designing this Grand Theft Auto V Poster

and I want to get the kind of warped line effect that the artist has got going on in the background



Can someone explain how exactly I can create it?

thanks,

Tom

 

[Hoogle]

I guess the easiest way would be to make a regular grid in ps or download a grid image then go to
filter > distort > spherize and that will produce same effects you will just need to clean up the corners

 

[Trevor Dennis]

I'm new to the forum, and am not up to speed with posting images etc. Also wondering why I can't use carriage returns? Hopefully the image I just uploaded can be view bigger than the thumb I am seeing.

 

[Trevor Dennis]

A few points… When defining the square pattern for the grid, just select the top and left bars and not the entire square, or you end up with double wall thickness and a clunky grid.

I made a round selection of the grid layer before using Filter > Spherize but I had to use Free Transform > Warp to further distort the globe shape. I am just wondering if I’d started with an elliptical selection before using Spherize. Hmmm… Probably not.

Anyway… I didn’t bother with the continents on the globe shape. Palm trees are brushes. I love brushes and have a pretty big selection. I wish Adobe would produce a really nice brush manager like they have done for fonts with Typkit.

 

[Hoogle]

Anyway… I didn’t bother with the continents on the globe shape. Palm trees are brushes. I love brushes and have a pretty big selection. I wish Adobe would produce a really nice brush manager like they have done for fonts with Typkit.

Just download any ABR viewer they all work just as well some more premium ones will give you better options but if you just want to load brushes from a preview file I am fairly sure all abr viewers do it

 

[Trevor Dennis]

Thanks Hoogle. I have tried ABR viewers before, but didn't get on terribly well with them. I found a decent tutorial on the Preset manager though. I'm not going to be able to post the link, but Google Tipsquirrel "take control of your photoshop brushes"

 

[tomB]

Thanks guys, really helpful I will post what I made when it is complete