Photo Minipulation

I've been hunting around but can't find much. I know a lil bit about the fish eye effect but I can't figure out how they created the distorted zoom bg effect.
I've tried Blur >>> Radial Blur but you get that blurry zoom effect.
Any help would be appreciated.



thanks!

I don't quite understand what you are trying to acheive. Could you possibly clarify your question a bit more?

you see how the background goes off into the distance? If you follow the telephone cables in the top right corner. Then go in the distance on a more extreme angle then a normal picture would. its like everything is bursting out of the center of the photo.

thx for reading though.

If you want the the foreground of the picture to take up more space try the
Distort>Spherize filter. Be sure to play around with the settings a bit.

You could perhaps free transform yourimage with a skewed setting before adding the filter. Just a guess but...

hmmm I will see what i can come up with. thx for the help

I have a feeling the background is the combination of 2 or 3 images (that's how I'd do it).

Or take a single image and split it up. Run a Edit::Transform::Perspective on each half to get the desired effect. Then blend it in with a sky pic, or something to tie the halves together.

Show us how this works out!

yea. there we go. That sounds like it would work well.. Thx thx!