fake fisheye tutorial
July 31, 2009
if you don’t have a fisheye camera or can’t afford a fisheye lens; i have good news now you can actually fisheye with photoshop. (p.s: i have cs3 version so i don’t know if this is possible in previous versions)
File>Open (Ctrl+O) the photograph you want to apply fisheye effect in photoshop.
Hold Shift and with Elliptical Marquee Tool select the area you wish to apply fisheye effect.
When you have made a selection with the elliptical marquee tool, next step is Select>Modify>Feather
Once the Feather Selection Menu appears type 15 to apply 15pixels of feather to your selection.
When you have applied 15pixels of feather to your selection, click Filter>Distort>Spherize.
For maximum fisheye effect set the amount to 100%
Once you have applied the spherize effect to your selection press Ctrl and C. You will have copied your selection. Then press Ctrl and N to open a fresh page. Then to paste your selection into the fresh page, press Ctrl and V. You will have this:
Then create a new layer and position it below the layer of your fisheye-d image.
Paint that layer (Layer 2) black with your Paint Bucket Tool. And there you go -you have your fisheye image!
I hope this was helpful to you. 
