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Make an Orb

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1. New document, 300x300, white background.

2. Hit Shift + M to select the elliptical marquee tool. image 1

3. Hold shift to make a perfectly circular selection which covers most of your document, like this:

image 2

4. Make a new layer by hitting Ctrl + Shift + N.

5. Hit D to reset your colors to the defaults.

6. Alt + Backspace to fill your selection with black.

image 3

7. Ctrl + D to deselect.

8. Go to blending options by clicking on the blending options icon in the layers palette. image 4

9. Bevel and Emboss with these settings:

image 5

10. Drop Shadow with these settings:

image 6

11. Inner Glow with these settings:

image 7

12. Gradient Overlay with these settings:

image 8

13. Now it should look like this:

Make an Orb

Pretty simple if you ask me!