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    Glassy Sphere: Stage 01

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    This Photoshop tutorial provides instructions over 9 stages to create a glassy sphere with shadow in under 10 minutes. The tutorial guides the user to: 1) Set up a new document and add center guides. 2) Create a sphere layer with a filled circle gradient tool. 3) Add a shadow layer below the sphere layer and use a black radial gradient to simulate a drop shadow. 4) Add a glare layer above the sphere layer with a white linear gradient to simulate highlights. The final image is a glassy sphere with shadow and highlights to give it a three-dimensional appearance.

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    Glassy Sphere: Stage 01

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    This Photoshop tutorial provides instructions over 9 stages to create a glassy sphere with shadow in under 10 minutes. The tutorial guides the user to: 1) Set up a new document and add center guides. 2) Create a sphere layer with a filled circle gradient tool. 3) Add a shadow layer below the sphere layer and use a black radial gradient to simulate a drop shadow. 4) Add a glare layer above the sphere layer with a white linear gradient to simulate highlights. The final image is a glassy sphere with shadow and highlights to give it a three-dimensional appearance.

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    This Photoshop tutorial provides instructions over 9 stages to create a glassy sphere with shadow in under 10 minutes. The tutorial guides the user to: 1) Set up a new document and add center guides. 2) Create a sphere layer with a filled circle gradient tool. 3) Add a shadow layer below the sphere layer and use a black radial gradient to simulate a drop shadow. 4) Add a glare layer above the sphere layer with a white linear gradient to simulate highlights. The final image is a glassy sphere with shadow and highlights to give it a three-dimensional appearance.

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    Glassy Sphere: Stage 01

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    This Photoshop tutorial provides instructions over 9 stages to create a glassy sphere with shadow in under 10 minutes. The tutorial guides the user to: 1) Set up a new document and add center guides. 2) Create a sphere layer with a filled circle gradient tool. 3) Add a shadow layer below the sphere layer and use a black radial gradient to simulate a drop shadow. 4) Add a glare layer above the sphere layer with a white linear gradient to simulate highlights. The final image is a glassy sphere with shadow and highlights to give it a three-dimensional appearance.

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    Photoshop Tutorial

    Glassy Sphere
    Skill level: Intermediate
    Duration: 10 minutes
    Requirements: Photoshop version 5 or higher
    Goal: To create a glassy sphere with shadow

    Stage 01.
    Let’s begin by making a new document 500 x 500 pixels at 72dpi. Make
    sure you have your rulers turned on (Press Ctrl & R). Right click on the
    top ruler and select Pixels.

    Drag a new guide from the left hand


    ruler towards the centre of the canvas
    until you feel it lock in the middle. To do
    this, simply left click and hold your
    mouse button inside the ruler, and then
    drag towards the centre of the canvas.

    Do the same with the top ruler. You


    should end up with 2 guides intersecting
    the middle of the canvas

    Stage 02.
    Create a new layer and name it ‘Sphere’.
    Select the Circular Marquee Tool and
    draw a circle big enough to fill about 50%
    of the canvas. Make sure you hold down
    the Shift key while drawing the circle. This
    will constrain it to be the same hight and
    width.

    Now drag the circle towards the centre of


    the canvas until it locks into the centre.
    Stage 03.
    Decide on a colour you want your sphere to be, and change
    your for ground and background colours to suit. I choose
    green for this tutorial; therefore I will have to choose a light
    green foreground colour and a very dark green for the
    background colour.

    Select the Gradient tool and choose


    its Radial Gradient option. Now
    drag a radial gradient starting near
    the bottom of the circle towards the
    top. You will end up with a filled
    circle like this

    Click on the Background layer and


    then create a New Layer.

    Name this layer ‘Shadow’. Hide the


    layer named ‘Sphere’ by clicking the
    small eye icon next to it in the layers
    palette 

    Stage 04.
    Change the foreground colour to
    Black and choose the Paint
    Bucket tool, then fill the circle.
    Now press Ctrl & D to deselect.

    Go to the Layer menu and select


    Add Layer Mask, and then
    Reveal All.
    Now grab the Radial Gradient tool again drag from the exact
    centre of the black circle towards the outer circle, and let go of
    the mouse button about 2 or 3 pixels from the edge 

    Stage 05.
    Press Ctrl & T and you will be in
    Transform mode. Using the Move
    tool, squash the circle downwards
    my dragging the top resize handle
    downwards.

    Press Enter when you are happy


    with the height

    Stage 06.
    Enable the layer called ‘Sphere’ by
    clicking the eye icon next to it in
    the layers palette. Select the Move
    tool, and then use the Down Arrow
    key on your keyboard to nudge the
    shadow downwards

    Stage 07.
    Make a new layer above the
    ‘Sphere’ layer and name it ‘Glare’.

    Using the circular Elliptical


    Marquee tool, draw a circle a few
    pixels inside the sphere. Hold shift
    to constrain the circle.
    Stage 08.
    Fill the circle with white, and then
    deselect (Ctrl & D)

    Now add a mask to the layer. Go to


    Layer menu, Add layer mask, and
    select Reveal all.

    Grab the Linear Gradient tool and


    fill from the top of the circle to
    about hallway down

    Stage 09.
    Change the opacity of the ‘Glare’
    layer to about 60%

    Now select the ‘Sphere’ layer and


    change the brightness & contrast
    (from the menu Image,
    Adjustments,
    Brightness/Contrast) until a
    desired level is reached.
    Final Image.

    This tutorial was produced by Michael Ott


    www.rustylime.com

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