Photoshop Sphere Environment map

vertex · Dec 2009

Hey guys, the other day I saw an online video where this guy took a panoramic image in Painter and used some filter to turn it into a spherized env map. Is there a way to do this in photoshop?

Thanks!

DEElekgolo · Dec 2009

Polar coordinates?

glib · Dec 2009

HDRShop is also great for converting to different types of environment map layouts. I use it pretty often at work going between cubecross and equirectangular.

vertex · Dec 2009

DEElekgolo wrote: »

Polar coordinates?

I'm not sure what the technical name is. I guess I'm looking for a mirror ball shperical effect convertion

vertex · Dec 2009

Hmm, I was just playing around with that polar coordinate filter in PS and it seems to do that same effect I saw in Painter, cool thanks. But now that Im looking at it I guess I actually want to get a mirror ball image out of a regular or panoramic landscape image. My brain just lit up and I just got that mirror ball effect by slapping an image to a sphere in max (duh). I guess I dont really need to use PS for that but it'd be quicker if it can be done in PS. Is there?

glib · Dec 2009

As I said, use HDRShop. It's free.

verybad · Dec 2009

In Photoship you can just use Lens correction with negative "remove distortion and scale, give it a black border and use extend edge" Don't know whether the thing is physically correct, but the image looks about right for a mirror ball image. I'm sure the reflections would look about right.

Photoshop Sphere Environment map

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