Fisheye or sphere effect on a bitmap

Hi folks,
I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I know it can be
done with text
but I'm trying to accomplish it with a bitmap.
I want to create what would look like a sphere with a
reflection of the
Chicago skyline in it. I've created the sphere and have the
skyline there,
but I need to "bend" the skyline around the sphere so it
looks more
lifelike. You can see what I have here:
http://freeshopper.com/test/test.html
and the PNG file is linked there as
well.
Thanks,
David

Thanks Alex,
I finally went out and bought Photoshop Elements. It has the
spherize filter
and it accomplished what I was looking to do. I couldn't
afford, nor do I
think I really need Photoshop, but Elements has a lot of
tools that I'll
probably use in the future.
Thanks for trying!
David
"Alex Mari�o" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ecvf6l$4ji$[email protected]..
> David,
>
> I have looked high and low and cannot find a Filter that
will do this
> similar to Photoshops Spherize.
>
> If anyone else has a source ....
>
> alex
>
> David wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I know it
can be done with text
>> but I'm trying to accomplish it with a bitmap.
>>
>> I want to create what would look like a sphere with
a reflection of the
>> Chicago skyline in it. I've created the sphere and
have the skyline
>> there, but I need to "bend" the skyline around the
sphere so it looks
>> more lifelike. You can see what I have here:
>>
http://freeshopper.com/test/test.html
and the PNG file is linked there as
>> well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David

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