Hi to all

Here a simple Image from my Garden manipulate with Gimp and Lens Distortion
i found this Tutorial on a YouTube Channel Creating a glass ball with Gimp
Note: This Tutorial is in German Lang

Here my Result i have make more from it.



greetings
groni

Thank you groni g.

Great idea!

too bad it's in German, so i missed many steps. otherwise i'd post my try here.

This tutorial is the same used by Ella Louise at My Island.
A great tutorial!

Groni, your garden is beautiful, creative decor!

Tin,
One option is the Manhatten Graechan's Script.
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9933&hilit=manhattan

Very nice. I wish I understood German.

Did you turn the globe upside down Conbagui?

True, it looked a little different to groni's. I will check the tutorial out soon. ;-)
Nice garden groni

Thank you
The german lang is not the Problem i make it today again in English lang
so can all understand it

@conbagui
Very good result

@akros
Thank you
I'm very proud to have a garden

for lazy users
version 2 of Globe-View
added: the possibility to flip the globe
added: the option not to zoom-blur the background (if user does not like it)

original image (thanks to Issabella)



"globed-flipped" using the Globe-View2



version 2 of the script

Thank You dinasset
for the script DIEGO_Globe-view2.7z [2.24 KiB]

I have Test it with a Garden Image here the Result



and here the result with origin settings i have set a hook on "Want to zoom-blur the background"




good script for working

Tin and Oregonian, I suppose it’s mostly the specific terms that you don’t understand in German.
I’ve tried to translate them in English.
If there is something not understandable please look at the video tut, pictures can tell a lot sometimes.

groni g, I hope you’re not offended by it. I made this tut many times in English already.

open your image and add an alpha chanel if there isn't one
duplicate the image

filters >> distorts >> whirl and pinch
with these settings



filters >> distorts >> apply lens



make surroundings transparent
lens refraction index 2,20

layers >> scale layer

uncheck the chain and make the layer square (I made 310x310)



layer >> transform >> rotate 180°

layer >> scale layer to image size

alpha to selection

select >> invert

filters >> light and shadow >> drop shadow



blur radius about 1/3 or a bit more the globe size

uncheck allow resizing

select >> none

dropshadow layer >> layer to image size

colors >> colorize



new transparent layer

alpha to selection on sphere layer

highlight te new layer

gradient >> white to transparent >> shape >> shaped spherical

apply the gradient like in the video-tut

select >> none

layermode >> overlay

new tranparent layer

use the ellips tool to draw an ellips

gradient shape on linear

draw a line >> layermode >> grain merge

all layers to image size


I suppose you can understand how to make the new star-brush.
How to move the sphere you can see on the video- tutorial.

Hi! Ella Louise
No i'm not offended
It is good to see that you have make it in English so have we no double post here and you write better English as i.
for doing it

But your German will be better than mine, groni g
My native language is Dutch.

Thank you. I've been using version 1 for a while. Nice script (arm chair tools) Dinasset. Also makes great sphere maps.

Thanks for translating Ella Louise.

here's my try (thanks Ella Louise)

I think i might have screwed up on the ellipse step, and then my star brush has 6 points intead of 4.

@Tran, I think you used the brush for creating the orange (conbagui’s tut).
For the sparkles you have to create a new brush.


Click on this icon in the brushes menu.


There will appear a new window.



You have to change it with the following settings.
First click on the rhombic icon, then change the numbers.



There you have your new brush.

Nice tutorial.

I just wanted to point out another interesting thread on creating Glass Spheres that members might find useful.