Create a new file (File>New) that must have 1024x768 px and 72 dpi.
Select now the Rectangle Tool (U) and represent the background of the picture to be next:
The layer's parameters: Blending Options>Gradient Overlay
Gradient's parameters:
Take the Ellipse Tool (U) now and try to make the primary layer, reserved for the small ball:
The layer's parameters: Blending Options>Gradient Overlay
Gradient's parameters:
Make a copy of the last made layer and select the Free Transform option to make several corrections on the element's shape, making the copy of black color:
The layer's parameters: Blending Options>Inner Shadow
Blending Options>Inner Glow
Next stage includes downloading from Internet a set of ready to use brushes for Adobe Photoshop: Faux Finish Brushes and try to install them. Create after that a new layer, (Create new layer), and use the installed brush on it:
Press on the Alt button and make a simultaneous click between the brush's layer and the ball's one for the brush's layer to be applied in the ball's limits:
Create another new layer (Create new layer) and use on it a standard brush with blurred edges and the color #6B9801, just for painting the ball:
Apply the earlier described method: keep pressed the Alt button and make a mouse's click between the layers:
Apply the next parameters for the layer: Blending Mode-Color
Try to represent one more new layer for the ball, selecting for the beginning the Ellipse Tool (U) and the color #6A9700
The layer's parameters: Fill 25%
Blending Mode-Hard Mix
Using the same instrument, try to represent the next layer reserved for the ball:
The layer's parameters: Fill 0%
Blending Options>Gradient Overlay
Gradient's parameters:
Choose the same instrument, Ellipse Tool (U), for picturing the next layer reserved for the ball, but this time of white color:
The layer's parameters: Fill 20%
Take the Ellipse Tool (U) and represent the shadow, situated under the ball. It should have the black color.
The shadow's layer needs to be placed lower than the ball's layers (on the layers' palette).
The layer's parameter: Blending Options>Outer Glow
Try to download again from Internet a set of ready to use brushes for Adobe Photoshop: Grunge Flowery set 2 and use it on our picture (behind the ball's layers) on a new layer (Create a new layer). Apply the brushes presented here: Flowery_12, Flowery_13
We need to apply for these brushes' layers the same layer's parameter shown below: Blending Mode-Overlay
Download again from Internet a set of ready to use brushes for Adobe Photoshop: Levy Things Borders. Create a new layer and select the next brushes: Sampled Brush #19 (diameter 125), Sampled Brush #35, Sampled Brush #39, Sampled Brush #34. The brushes' layer should be placed under the ball's layers.
Apply the next presented layer's parameter the same way described earlier: Blending Mode-Overlay
Create a new layer again and select for it the Sampled Brush #5
Apply the next layer's parameter: Blending Mode-Overlay
Select now different brushes, downloaded from Internet also: Coffee_Stains on a new layer. The brushes may be used those we want:
Apply the next parameter for the layers: Blending Mode-Overlay
One more downloaded set of brushes from Internet needs to be used on a new layer (Create a new layer). The brushes' layer should be placed lower than the ball's layer. The brushes are entitled: Tiny Flower Elements by ca_pris
Apply this parameter for the brushes' layer: Blending Mode-Overlay
The picture is finished!
