Introduction Making a nice Glass Orb, might liven things up on either a wallpaper
or website. You decide.
Step 1 Make a new document, 500x500. Fill in the background in with a
light grey. Make a new layer and select you Elliptical Marquee Tool. Make
a fixed size of about 120x120, this will give you nice circle. Fill the
circle in this colour #7FC1FF and then go to [Layer > Layer Style >
Blending Option]. Right now you should have something that looks like this:
Step 2 We are now going to give it a little stroke, once you've gone through
the step [Layer > Layer Style > Blending Option] select stoke. And
enter the settings shown below:
Step 3 Why not add a Gradient to it... Select Gradient and enter the details
as show below, this will make the orb a little more effective.
Step 4 Now we are going to give it a little effect which makes it look
more of a glass orb. Select now, the Bevel and Emboss and enter the settings
as shown down below.
Step 5 Making it glow, another nice effect. Select Inner Glow and put
in the settings as shown down below.
Step 6 Now to make an outer glow. This is a helpful thing to do. Select
the Outer Glow and use the settings show down below.
Step 7 Inner Shadow, this will make it even more effective, select Inner
Shadow, and use setting shown below in the image.
Step 8 Now our last finishing touch for our great little orb. Select Drop
Shadow and again look at the image, for the settings.
Step 9 Now to make it even realer, we are now going to add a little background
to it, making it look like its inside something. In your layers palette
hold CTRL on the glass orb, and click it, this will make a whole selection
round the orb. Now make a new layer and go to [Select > Modify > Expand
> 10] now drag layer below glass orb layer and fill it in with this colour
#D4D4D4. Now go to [Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options] then Gardient
Overlay, change the settings to these:
You should have something which looks like the image on the right.. You
do? Great! Continue..
Step 10 Now to make them little window effects to make it have a nice smooth
reflection. Make a new layer and make it like as shown on the left image.
Go to [Edit > Free Transform > Skew] and grab the top right one and
move it to the right making it strech. Do the same for the left one.
Step 11 Grab you window reflection layer and move in on to the orb. On
the layer palette you will see Opacity 100% and Fill 100% change the fill
to 8%. You should now have your orb which looks like the image below! You
do? GREAT, your finished.
