Well, I actually did some playing around. and did this:

created a plane equatorial map indicating longitude and latitude cells using Excel.
World Scale.png

generated a few maps using Nortantis and placed imported them into my excel sheet.
TEST 1.png

For the Pole, I generated another map using Nortantis, imported it into photoshop - Filter - Distort - Polar coordinates - Polar to rectangular. and applied to the excel map sheet.
Finished.png

Once I did that, I applied the map to "map to globe" (https://www.maptoglobe.com/)
Globe 1.PNG
Globe 2.PNG

Now I can work with the map to make it appear natural and place the plates using photoshop.