Why is the image inside the ball upside down?

The stylised sphere deliberately imitates the inverted view associated with a strong converging glass ball. It compresses the prepared frame into the circle from opposite directions; it does not infer a real camera, focal length, glass index, or scene depth.

Will it duplicate or deform a face or object?

Pixels outside the sphere and all working-frame alpha stay byte-exact. Inside the sphere, the scene is intentionally sampled from another coordinate, so a person or object can appear a second time, upside down, as part of the requested lensball composition. It does not detect or reshape anatomy; choose a wide scene rather than a close portrait when that deliberate second view would be distracting.

Lensball World applied to the same source image — The same source image before and after applying Lensball World.

Original source image before Lensball World — The same source image before and after applying Lensball World.

Lensball World Photo Filter Online

Compress and invert the scene inside one bounded glass sphere while keeping every outside pixel fixed. Control the strength, compare the result, and download a finished image from your browser.

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Supported formats include JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG, HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, RAW, PSD. Maximum file size: 11 MB.

What you can do with the Lensball World effect

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Apply the Lensball World effect to any photo
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About the Lensball World effect

Lensball World places one horizontally centered, bottom-anchored sphere with a full-strength radius of 30% of the short side. Intensity grows its affected area and captured field of view rather than opacity-crossfading two completed scenes: radius follows the square root of intensity, so changed area scales linearly. Inside the antialiased circle, one coherent bilinear RGB coordinate uses a restrained 180-degree equisolid-style projection to compress the prepared frame and turn it upside down. A neutral rim, edge shade, and highlight use source-relative channel limits so they create no new black or white clipping. Every pixel beyond the 1.25-pixel boundary feather remains byte-identical, every nonopaque target and any sample footprint touching transparency are rejected, and working-frame alpha stays byte-exact. The result is a lossless PNG. This is a deterministic single-image illustration with fixed placement—not a measured lens, detected physical ball, ray-traced material, contact shadow, or rebuilt 3D scene.

How to use Lensball World

Upload a photo, adjust the Lensball World intensity, compare its processed preview with the source, and download the finished result.

Why use the Lensball World effect?

Lensball World, tuned to your photo

Use the intensity control to balance the Lensball World treatment with the detail and character of your original photo.

A fast Lensball World workflow

A reduced Lensball World preview keeps adjustments responsive. Free downloads are clean and web-size; Premium or a credit unlocks the original resolution.

Secure Lensball World processing

Lensball World uploads are processed on secure servers and automatically removed under the normal Pixoate retention policy.

How it works

Processing

Lensball World runs as a classic image effect and does not use an AI action.

Best for

wide landscapes, travel views, landmarks, architecture, interiors, and horizon-led scenes with useful detail around the complete frame.

Less suited to: portraits, close subjects, groups, readable text, transparent cutouts, very busy scenes, off-center compositions, and photos that already contain a real sphere; content inside the fixed circle is deliberately compressed and inverted, so a person or object can appear again there by design.

Ways to use Lensball World

Lensball World questions

Why is the image inside the ball upside down?: The stylised sphere deliberately imitates the inverted view associated with a strong converging glass ball. It compresses the prepared frame into the circle from opposite directions; it does not infer a real camera, focal length, glass index, or scene depth.
Will it duplicate or deform a face or object?: Pixels outside the sphere and all working-frame alpha stay byte-exact. Inside the sphere, the scene is intentionally sampled from another coordinate, so a person or object can appear a second time, upside down, as part of the requested lensball composition. It does not detect or reshape anatomy; choose a wide scene rather than a close portrait when that deliberate second view would be distracting.