I have tried making a number of flower photographs, with different art effects, into sphere/ball images. Or, as I sometimes call the effect ‘Sphereize’ them.
In each of these image pairs on the left I show the processed image and on the right the same image ‘sphereized’ – use the slider to hide/reveal each image:
This has been an interesting exercise although some work better than others. I must have a go printing some of these to see how they turn out…