I agree. It's such fun and many surprises manifest in the composing.

I got the lightning image here




Original image here.

WOW!!! Both images are great, but that lightning shot is totally SWEEEEET!

I hope you don't mind that I tried the same thing with the lightning picture.

That lightning shot is great fun to play with. Yours looks better (brighter). I re-opened mine, duplicated the layer and tried different layer modes and got some interesting results. Too many to post but it's a good way to brighten the coloring.

Halloween's coming. I filled the green and blue layers with black, then used hue & sat to change the red to orangish.

Original Image

Halloween is coming!!!

On mine I went into hue and saturation, decreased the lightness, to darken the background and raised the saturation to brighten the lightning.

are these done with iwarp on the different layers, or 3 different photos?

I believe you just take 3 different images, decompose them all and switch around the Red, Green, and Blue channels, (layers) that appear after decomposing the images.
I think that's correct.

Mine are all done with a single image and I used iWarp on the 3 different layers then combined them.

The orange and black one I filled the blue and green layers with black and that resulted in red when I combined them. I went to Hue & Saturation to make it more orange.

I love the effect with the lightning! I think it would be kinda cool with a spotlight, and sunlight rays. I wish I had more time to play!!!

Spotlight image here.

I duplicated the final colored layer and set the top layer mode to Overlay.

i love the rainbow lightings and the Hallowen variation...also the spotlight come out with a really fluffy light..cool!

Hey Oregonian,
I am impressed with your artistic genius!

Moi? *blush*

You supplied the means, I just played.

Here's an entirely different adventure. I filled the image with black, decomposed it and painted on each layer with white smoke brushes.

BTW, Greg, did you find the link I posted to the smoke brushes here?



Done on all black decomposed layers with bokeh brushes. The final image layer was duplicated and the top layer set to Screen mode.

You can get my two sets of bokeh brushes here



Download my attached Bokeh Cannabis Leaf.

@ photomaster and "O"

These are all brilliant. I especially love the orange and black halloween with the witch's and bats .......

loving this, but still gotta learn the other method!

tried the rays of light with iwarp.

but...I wasn't sure how you could make a selection of a section of a photo, and move only the selection on each layer, the recompose or combine.

Very pretty Toni. I like.

The sun rays look very good in the expanded image.

I keep coming back to this effect because it's so much fun.

Original image here

If you use images with horizontal simmetry then you will avoid in the Sphere that line that mark a abrupt change of texture

I used gmic "mirrored array" to modify your texture



then MM for the sphere



As side effect a similar sphere will usuallymerge well on the original texture

Oh, thanks PhotoComix. That works so much better. They look very good.

Also all "equirectangular "photos (you will found many in groups on panoramic photos ) even if not simmetric are perfect to be mapped in the sphere