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Originally Posted by MJAJmom
After spending the day trying to make a globe, I can add a few helpful hints from what I learned today....
- I made the 7x7 rectangular photo boxes to cover the entire 12x12 page and filled all of them with photos
- I used a circle cookie cutter with a fixed size of 11.5 x 11.5inches to cut out the globe after it was spherized
- I have PSE7 so I downloaded the Grants Tools for PSE6 (there is no version for PSE7, just one for 6 and 8)
- For fading the reflection image, once you've got linear gradiant selected and black foreground color selected, click from the middle of the globe, drag toward the outer edge and click again. It just draws a line from the 2 clicks and fades from the middle to the edge. It will erase the other half of the globe. I kept trying to click from the edge to the middle. Remember to start in the middle first.
- then you can reduce opacity on the reflection to make it even lighter.
I followed the PSE8 instruction for the globe and thought they were superbly written and very detailed. Thank you for a great tutorial and sharing such a cool image with us!!!
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How did you spherized, using the 3D-function or using the filter function? I´ve tried 5x5,6x6 and 7x7 and all the globes I get are the same not matter how many squares.