Cropped image - Spherize effect centred on entire image

[Trude Gatters]

Hi folks

So, I have a cropped image which I want to distort with a fish-eye type effect.  The problem is that the centre of the sphere is being set relative to the full image area, not the cropped version.  This means that the effect is not symmetrical on my cropped image.

I have cropped it with the "delete cropped pixels" option enabled, but this doesn't seem to be working - after confirming the crop, I can still reveal the original image by editing the crop area.  I thought that deleting the cropped area would be the solution to my problem, but since this isn't working I can't confirm this.

Any ideas?

[Jeff Arola]

What version of photoshop and operating system are you using?

Are you working with a layer that was turned into a smart object before you did the cropping?

[Trude Gatters]

It's the latest CC version (updated yesterday) on Windows 10.

I don't know what a smart object is, but if I right click on the layer I get the option "convert to smart object", so I guess that means it's not?

[Jeff Arola]

Does your layer have a symbol in the bottom right like in the screenshot below?

If your unsure, you could post a screenshot of your layers panel.

[Trude Gatters]

Ah - yep, it does

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

I guess the easiest thing to do in your case is Rasterize the Smart Object before cropping and then run the Spherize filter.

Right click to the right of  the Smart Object Thumbnail in the layers panel and then click on Rasterize Layer.

You can read about smart objects and smart filters here and see if that's something your interested in using.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/create-smart-objects.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/applying-smart-filters.html#applying_smart_filters

[Trude Gatters]

Thanks - that did the trick!

I duplicated the layer first so I can make changes later if needed.