As so many readers have been asking how I made the water droplets for LAPC’s last challenge – here is the formula. Originally I learned it from always innovative and informative Dina and Klausbernd at The World According to Dina.
1) Open an image in Photoshop
2) Crop it to a square format
3) Go to filter – distort – polar coordinates and click polar to rectangular
4) Go to image – rotate – flip vertical
5) Go to filter – distort -polar coordinates – rectangular to polar
6) Expand canvas: go to image – canvas size; expand to your liking but choose the right colour before saving
A small warning though…you will get addicted! Here are a couple from my garden last year – snow on the tiny spring flowers. The original scilla image is in the opener.
Scilla and daffodils after a snowfall
And here is what is coming in a month or so – sweet Anemone hepatica.
Have fun ”orbing” your world! Please tell us about it or post some of your results! We certainly need some fun these dark days, don’t we. ♥
Leya 
These are so pretty. Thanks for sharing them, and for telling us how to create our own.
You are very welcome!
What a fun perspective!
Glad to a share and glad you liked it!
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really fun to do! https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2022/02/25/photo-fun/
Beautiful effect
Fun!
This is way too cool! You are so talented, AC!
Cool it is – but just follow the instructions!
Stunning …
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Can’t wait to try this! 😁
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Good afternoon, Ann Christine,
thank you very much for your kind words about our blog. That’s very much appreciated 🙏 🙏
You learned the ‘orbing’ pretty fast, we are impressed. Especially your last picture is GREAT 👍
With lots of love ❤ ❤ from the sea
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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We love your orbs, Ann-Christine! Thank you so much for the shout-out!
Sending you wet greetings from Norfolk, take care,
Dina-Hanne x
My pleasure! Lots of love❤❤❤❤
Hey everyone, you can do this in gimp (which is free) Only step different is the first one where you use the rectangle tool to select and then crop to selection. The rest is exactly the same
Thank you for checking!
Wow, its amazing, thanks so much for sharing
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These are gorgeous!
Thank you!
Well, I don’t have Photoshop. Maybe I should … These are lovely.
I use Photoshop Elements which is a whole lot cheaper.
I’m probably not bothered enough to pay out real money. I don’t really want to spend too much time tinkering with my photos.
Apparently you can do this with GIMP software which is a free editor.
Thanks!
Margaret, I understand from some comments that it works with other software as well!
Right – thanks!
Unfortunately I don’t have Photoshop! I love the outcome!
Thank you, it seems to work with some other software as well!
have to try to find software for it 😀
Try Gimp – it is free!
Thank you
The last, with that hint of sunshine, is my favourite orb, but I really love the beauty of your Header.
❤Thank you, Jo!
Thank you! I don’t have Photoshop, I will try with Gimp-
Ok!
I don’t have Photoshop so I’m out of luck. They’re very cool but I prefer the image of the flower in the snow. 😁
😄It seems to work with some other software as well. Check the comments!
Thanks Ann-Christine! Yesterday my friend and I went to a nursery to do macro with flowers. I have a lot of images to practice on.
Looking forward to seeing some
All your work is lovely and these are such cool images!
Thank you!
Oh, I have to try one! Thank you Leya! Beautiful!!
Have fun!
I had fun with these a few years ago. Here’s one of mine
and another old one
It’s amazing, Jude! 🙂
So beautiful , landscape?
Woodland. Sorry about the size!
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Wowow! Gorgeous, Jude!
Love these orbs!
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Oh, my, another time-waster – as though I didn’t have enough!
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Fabulous. I’ll have to see what my PaintShop Pro can do 🙂
If you do, can you let me know as I’ve got Paint Shop Pro too.
Will do. I have Ultimate 2022
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