its an effect on photoshop called Polar cordinates in the filter > distort thingy. go here http://www.dirkpaessler.com/blog/in.../2006/09/06/tutorial-create-your-own-planets/ thats how i learend to do it hhaha. i shot it in my background originally as a hdr but like a couple days later i found out how to do this so i made it into this