Picture grid on Globe in GIMP

[This Dixie Pixie]

Originally Posted by hickman4638

For PSE8, I followed ILuvCrush's directions mostly (just had to find the equivalent in PSE8)

To Make the Globe:
1. Make 7 square photo frames across and down in a grid. (I used a square template resized from one of my existing templates)
2. Add photos (best ones in middle, outer ones are very squished!) and mat, if desired – color between the pictures if you want a color other than white before the next step.
3. Layer --> Flatten Image
4. Filter --> Distort --> Spherize
5. Once you have the Sphere, you need to cut the globe out. I use my Cookie Cutter Tool - choose Circle - set cutter options to fixed size (I put 10x10). This will give you the grid lines so you can pull it to the size you want to give perfect circle with no erasing of edges needed.
6. Once complete, you can resize to globe to size and direction you want it to be

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Please let me know if any questions!! Good Luck!!

I am so excited to see these instructions because this globe stuff is awesome! But... I got it to Step 5:



But it's a major fail when I do the cookie cutter:



I'm very new to digiscrapping and this is my 3rd day with PSE. (PSE8) What have I missed?