Favourite Tree in a Ball

I can't do a theme of trees without including my favourite tree can I, so I had a play with this one in Photoshop

[eDorre]

Very cool!

[Casablanca]

Ha ha, no you had to have this one in there! And I assume you managed to not set fire to anything on the beach with your ball this time! Nice shot.

[Phil Sandford]

That’s lovely

[Lois]

Love it!

[Annie D]

fabulous!

[Ingrid]

That looks so good!

[Diana]

Absolutely stunning Babs, so well done!

[Valerie Chesney]

Exceptional capture..

[Babs]

@casablanca I haven't set fire to anything for ages Officer, well apart from our wood burner fire. ha ha

[Monique]

Beautiful

[KoalaGardens🐨]

oh this is done just perfectly

[Rob Z]

Wow - what a great composition - and I love your favourite tree.

[Margo]

This is really a super capture fav

[Kathy A]

Wow, this is really cool.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Fantastic - a really superb image - fav

[Susan Wakely]

Fabulous lens ball image.

[Ethel]

Oh my. Another beauty

[Peter]

Absolutely fabulous Babs, wonderful detail, composition and editing makes it really standout, a big Fav:)

[Leli]

Beautifully work. Well done.

[Peter Dulis]

You are talented

[Esther Rosenberg]

that is cool!

[Dione Giorgio]

Amazing. Fav.

[gloria jones]

Well done :)

[Mallory]

Wow, this is amazing!

[Judith Johnson]

Brilliant, it's so good I keep looking and finding something new!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wow, you did an amazing job.

[*lynn]

Fabulous, so well done, Babs.

[Kate]

Nice edit … your favorite tree has lots of character

[Lady Magpie (Heather)]

Clever capture Babs, makes the tree look so nice. FAV

[Bep]

Stunning! Fav.

[carol white]

Great editing, a lovely shot.Fav😊

[Ellen Bogenschutz]

Very cool effect!!

[Granny7(Denise)]

Fav

[Ann H. LeFevre]

It's such a photogenic tree it deserves to be featured many times over. Good shot- creative presentation!

[Mave]

Interesting

[Pat Knowles]

It’s the nicest use of a photo ball I have seen.

[Pyrrhula]

Beautiful capture and very intrigue editing. Fav.

[sarah]

So nice

[Kat]

Superb, love it, fav!

[Jane Pittenger]

Wonderful play

[Carrie Shepeard]

This is very good! Love the creativity. Fav!

[amyK]

Creatively done!

[Babs]

@edorreandresen @phil_sandford @loweygrace @annied @ingrid01 @ludwigsdiana @happysnaps @momamo @koalagardens @robz @777margo @kjarn @beryl @wakelys @ethelperry @pcoulson @elza @pdulis @dutchothotmailcom @sangwann @seattlite @sunnygirl @busylady @mittens @lynnz @k9photo @ladymagpie @gijsje @carolmw @theredcamera @denful @olivetreeann @mave @happypat @pyrrhula @samae @katford @jgpittenger @cashep19 @amyk Thanks for putting my favourite tree on the tp and the pp.

[haskar]

Fabulous!

[Faye Turner]

Cool capture fav

[Poppo Livy]

How did you get it into the ball?

[Dianne]

A terrific image.

[Babs]

@terryliv Magic, ha ha

[Jacqueline]

Brilliant shot!

[Liana Bull]

Wonderful image

[Vesna]

Congratulations on Top 20!

[Islandgirl]

Congrats on top 10 Babs!

I love this, I always have difficulty with my Crystal ball photos and getting the photo in the ball the right side up!
How did you do this in Photoshop?

[Babs]

@radiogirl There are lots of tutorials on YouTube on how to flip crystal ball photos but this photo was done completely in photoshop, not in a crystal ball.

Select your picture decide which part is going to be edited and then select elliptical marquee tool and hold down the shift key. Start at one corner and drag, by holding the shift key you get a perfect circle.

Select Filter/Distort/spherize 100% OK, It makes the image like a sphere.
Go to Layer New New Layer OK
With black as foreground colour click on Edit Stroke width 100 pixels Inside
Then go to filter/blur/gaussian blur radius 90 pixels
Layer Merge Down and then Select/Deselect. Then crop to how you want the finished image to be.

Hope I have made it clear enough.

[Islandgirl]

@onewing Thank you I will try it in PS!