add 3d circle in circles

[Abdul27990060y1au]

I have a drawing in PNG and the task is to add a 3d circle to it. Now I am working on that image to have a circle of more than 50000 or more. So, it's not easy to add it manually. Tell me, Is there any way to add a 3d circle in Photoshop and Illustrator like the attached? Waiting for your response. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please provide a meaningful screenshot including the pertinent Panels to clarify how you created those »3D«-elements. 

And please provide (part of) the original image at full resolution. 

It might be possible (depending on the contrast in the actual image) to use a Script to determine the position and size of the circles and then place and scale the »3d«-elements accordingly. 

But at a number of 50.000 the time this would take might be prohibitive. 

So a proper Filter would probably be (a lot) better. 

At current I cannot think of a combination of custom Filters that would be able to create the »3D«-elements while honoring the different sizes of the circles. 

Hopefully someone else can offer more insight. 

[Abdul27990060y1au]

Please check out this. I hope it helps to understand what I am trying to say. and I hope you will help me to find a better way to complete this task. Thank you so much. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please provide (part of) the original image at full resolution. 

Quite frankly I do not fully understand the process. 

Do you have the black element with the circular holes as a Layer of its own? (If so: Is there a Vector Mask or just Transparency?) 

Are the »3D«-elements just copies with the Layer Style Bevel & Emboss applied? 

[Conrad_C]

I would not want to do this in Photoshop alone, too much work. Or at least, I might start in Adobe Illustrator by using its Symbol Sprayer tool: Draw one 3D circle and make it a Symbol. Then use the Symbol Sprayer tool to spray it in a range of sizes including random.

I would probably start in grayscale, and add colors layer. Either using the Recolor features in Illustrator, or by bringing it into Photoshop to apply color fill layers with blending modes. Both methods require some training and experience, too many steps to quickly list here.

From their examples, they also want the sizes of the circles to follow and reinforce the 3D contours of the reference photographs, and I do not think there is any quick way to do that in Photoshop or Illustrator. That looks like the hardest part. To use Photoshop or Illustrator to meet the requirements exactly might require manual sizing and placement of every circle by hand, requiring many hours of work. Other software might be better for this, but I don't know which application or filter could do that.

It looks like you are being asked to do a specific job by a client. Hopefully they are paying you well, because I might refuse that job unless I already knew of a way to do it quickly with some automation.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

This is outdated methodology - 3D features are EOL/deprecated in Photoshop since 22.2.

@Conrad_C to me - this looks like a skills test/application for either a student or job candidate.

[Conrad_C]

Even with the 3D features that Photoshop did have, it would not be practical to do this kind of work in Photoshop. The target examples look like they were done in a real 3D application.

[Myra Ferguson]

I would also recommend Illustrator, but I would suggest using it with the Astute Graphics plugin Stipplism which includes Symbol Stipple. The plugins require a separate subscription.

In Illustrator, you can make a 2D that you convert to a symbol. Place and select the artwork that you want to replace with the circles (the artwork can be a raster image). Then if you have Astute Graphics' plugins, go to Effect > Stipplism > Symbol Stipple. Select the 2D circle to use for the Dot Settings, select Colorize, and set the other options as desired.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

@Abdul27990060y1au , please provide (part of) the original image at full resolution. 

[Abdul27990060y1au]

check out this

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please post the original image, not a bw copy. 

As it is it may be useless due to the lacking color and the compression damage. 

Edit: 

[Abdul27990060y1au]

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[c.pfaffenbichler]

Thank you. 

Unfortunately the Photoshop-approach I had in mind (which would have been slow anyway) does not work out because the separation of the black »grid«-area does not seem plausible in the very dark areas 

and because there are overlapping circles.