Sunday, July 13, 2008

Glass Sphere!!!





Do you wanna make a glass sphere like magical sphere of wizard or witch? or even bubbles?

Today I will introduce you the technique to do this.

_Open needed file.(h01)

_Use elliptical marquee tool + shift to select(h02)

_Choose background color (h03 + h04)

_Use Paint Bucket Tool to paint this selected area

_Ctrl + D to deselect

_Choose layers table ---> add a new style --> inner shadow (h05)

_We have temporary result (h06)

_Create new layer. Select this layer then press Ctrl + Alt + G

_Change Backgroud color to 65645F

_Use Gradient tool, adjust like (h07)

_Click and drag from center like (h08) and (h09)

_Press (D)

_Add layer mask to this layer

_Use Gradient tool (in Option bar, choose Radial Gradient and deselect Reverse)

_Click and drag from center to edge of the sphere (h10)

_Duplicate Layer 1 (Ctrl + J) (h11)

_Move this copied layer (h12)

_Decrease this layer Fill to 0% (h13)

_Adjust Blending option index like (h14,15)

_We have temporary result (h16)

_Create New Layer

_Use Brush tool: soft brush--> select sensible size (h17)

_Choose background color = white---> click this tool to the sphere center --> Filter-->Gaussian Blur: Radius: 25

_In layer3, Ctrl + click to the icon of layer 1 to have the selection, add mask to layer 3

_Adjust layer 3 opacity= 30% (h18)

_Create layer4

_Use brush tool (Hard brush and sensible size)to make a circle on the sphere (h19)

_Gaussian Blur: Radius:5

_Add layer style (h20)

_ Select layer 1 copy, decrease Fill to 25% (h21,22)

_Create new layer under layer 1 (layer5)

_In layer5, Ctrl + select layer1 copy

_Press (D)

_Gradient tool (h23)

_Click and drag from center to the edge of the sphere

_Ctrl + T , click and drag like (h24)

_Move the shadow to the right (h25)

_Adjust Opacity = 50% , Filter---> Gaussian Blur, Radius: 2 px (h26,27)

_In layer 5, Ctrl + click layer 1

_Filter -->Distort--> Spherize--->amount=100% (normal) (h28,29)

_Apply this effect to layer1(background) (h30)

Collection.

Have fun!!!

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