Photoshop CS4 + Globe?

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*if you know how to do it in Corel or GIMP, or anything else, that would help too. I have CS4.*

I am trying to learn how to create a world globe. I wanted to make it so where it looked like a globe and I could make clouds over it, fire (the planet is on fire), pieces of the earth are cracked...things like that.

This is what I got from GIMP. I only have a horrible quality version of the picture I want to turn into a globe, so please don't mind the ugly blurriness of it. :D

http://i37.tinypic.com/6ynwye.jpg

Does anyone know how to create something like this:
http://i35.tinypic.com/r7kak9.jpg

Any help would be very appreciated! :x3::x3:
 
If you don't mind using a different picture other than the one you have, you can always look at www.sxc.hu for some pretty good and free stock images.

I've looked around for you a little bit, and here is one of the earth stocks I've found

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1155281

If you've never been there, registration, I believe... is required, but other than that, the stocks are free.

Anyways, after you download the photo, you can extract the image of Earth from it and play around with it as you please.

Hope this helps
 
Globes are tricky business. If you want it animated (you incorrectly ended the image with .jpg instead of .gif), you might want to get the GIMP animation package, as you can make a really accurate tween with whatever filters you choose. Either way, you should paste down whatever fire/cloud effects you want on the flat image, then put everything onto a globe with the Map to Object tool. Extras like the orbital ring and the glow around the globe are easy enough to create with paths.
 
@Yumiko:
I'll definitely look, I have to get a card that supports CS5/3D Rendering, so it could take a while lol

@Adamant:
Well my GIMP had a Sphere filter, I just pressed it and it did that. Although I don't know how to use GIMP, I did use a bad stock lol
 
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@Yumiko:
@Adamant:
Well my GIMP had a Sphere filter, I just pressed it and it did that. Although I don't know how to use GIMP, I did use a bad stock lol
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You want me to make a tutorial for you or something?

How about this, you provide me a good stock, tell me exactly what you want on the image, and I'll show you step by step how to create something like what you want.
 
I don't have stocks....I was going to create a planet for my novel, just a little fun thing and then a 3D planet for my own game I'm making and another for FF6 for my forum and FF6 friends ^,^

Yes please, a tutorial would be nice.

Um, okay....how about just something that will look like a earth? *I don't have stock, and I'm not sure what a stock is :shy*
 
I'm gonna be frank with you, that particular image is a very poor choice to turn into a globe. I've tried messing around with it and I'm really not liking the thought of putting in 3 hours of work just to make it usable. The decorative white spaces on the edge of the image may look nice for a flat map, but they will look awful in three dimensions and there is no way to get rid of them short of chopping off some of the existing continents. Finally the color scheme is extremely bland, and trying to cut out those continents (make them transparent) is an enormous amount of rendering work. I think something more colorful and better defined, like http://www.fantasymapmaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/fantasy-world-2.JPG , would be a hell of a lot more useful.
 
That's cool....I don't know what good or bad lol

You know, I looked at that image, and thought it was worse :<
 
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