Above is the result of this tutorial.
Here I have a photo of the Boston skyline, taken with a 18-200mm lens at 18mm:
The first thing I’ll do is select the elliptical marquee tool from the tool bar:
As I’m making my selection on the photograph, I’ll hold down the Shift key on my keyboard to keep the circle proportionally round. I’ll try to make the selection as big as I can without extending outside the photo. Then I’ll center it over the portion of the photo that I think is most interesting. While I’m centering the circle, I’ll make sure that I still have the elliptical marquee tool selected:
The next thing I’ll do is reverse the selection, so that I’m selecting everything in the photo except the circle so that I can get rid of the background. I’ll go to Select/Inverse:
Now I’ll hit the Delete key on my keyboard. The background will turn white:
Now I can use the move tool to center the circle:
Now I do the Select/Inverse again, because I want to make the background black:
I’ll use the paint bucket tool from the tool bar to fill the background black:
Now for the last time I’ll do a Select/Inverse:
The next step is to give the circle the fisheye look. Here I’ll go to Filter/Distort/Spherize:
Here the Spherize dialog box comes up. I’ll make the amount 100% and I’ll set the Mode to “Normal”:
I’ll hit CTRL-D on my keyboard to deselect. Then I’ll just crop out some extra black background.:
Here is the finished photo:
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and have fun playing with Photoshop.
18 comments
kumaran
ok better thank
Edward
that is just great.
UK Swindle
simple but effective. Saves me buying a fisheye too! Cheers mate.
Crickett Hernandez
Thank You so much for the tutorial. Im new to all of this and only have photoshop elements 7 so i know there is not alot i can do, but what i can learn will prepare me for when i can get CS3 or CS4. I know with alot of dedication and persiverance i will conquor photoshop. Once again thank you so much It was beautiful the way you did this
deven
Its was really very nice. i want you to please reguarly email me on my id such tutorials.. thanks…
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Funkydan
Wow, thanks so much for that! You explain things so well 🙂
Here’s a link to the pic I made:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkydan/3838324010/
Thanks again!!
Dan
admin
Hi Dan,
I checked out your photo on Flickr. It came out great! I’m glad you had a positive learning experience.
Lorri
Dave Tapper
Hi, I found this tutorial really easy to follow, and therefore easy to do on a photo for myself. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
Sam
Sweet tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to post!!!!
The sharing of knowledge is the best a person could hope to do!
Zach
Thanks a stack man.
suss the snaps if you like
ZACH! Photography (search on facebook, not sure if it works on google)
Mengaman
Thanks lots.
tharindu
it’s great.. but I want to know how to add this effect just to selected area.. ( select a person of a picture by lasso tool and then invers, only this selected area should be affected by this effect.. ) when done this effect, unfilled areas must not be in the picture… exactly I wanna know.. thank you so much for your previous lesson…..
Madawa
Wooow this is great…
thank you verry much..
VtechBlog
oh. easy and beautiful
paarth sharma
thanyou for this great tutorial 🙂
nischalG
thank you
jd
thanks a lot