How to make a sphere with dots using photoshop 6/7 and no 3d program.

OK start with a square image, your choice. I did 400 x 400 pixels and a white background.

Using the dots you created in the other tutorial (here) as a fill/pattern


Make a new layer & fill your new layer with the pattern. You could also use the round marquee selection tool to make a sphere with no back.


Now you can use the round marquee selection tool to get a nice circle ( hold down shift to get a even circle).


Now goto FILTER>DISTORT>Spherize


Amount - 100%


This is how your masterpiece should look at this point if it does not.. don't worry :D

 

 

 

 


here is an example.. in this example I did not fill the whole image with the pattern, I made a round selection with the elipticle marquee tool (round) and did a fill with my pattern.

 


another example.. same technique as above..

 

 


another example.. the sphere filter was used about 5 times.. have fun.