So often, we use Adobe Photoshop just to fix pictures—to correct white balance, add contrast, or remove elements that don’t belong. But sometimes it’s fun to do something wacky, taking an image to an entirely different place. One quick and easy trick: Make an ordinary photo look like it was shot with a circular fisheye lens, with its telltale shape and black background. To do it, use the Warp tool, introduced in version CS2. The technique works best on images that have lots of horizontal and vertical lines, so the distortion really stands out.
Step 1 Begin by cropping your photo to a square shape, ensuring the distortion you’ll add later will look more realistic. Get the Crop tool by typing C on your keyboard. Hold down the Shift key to keep it to a perfect square, and crop your image with a circular final product in mind.
Note: When cropping, keep in mind that you’ll lose a bit of the information on all four sides in the transformation to a fisheye look.
