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Glass Orb
Added: Mar 17, 2005 Rating: 
Level: Beginner Software:
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Level: Beginner Software:
Photoshop
| 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: |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Step 5 Making it glow, another nice effect. Select Inner Glow and put in the settings as shown down below. |
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| 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. |
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| Step 7 Inner Shadow, this will make it even more effective, select Inner Shadow, and use setting shown below in the image. |
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| Step 8 Now our last finishing touch for our great little orb. Select Drop Shadow and again look at the image, for the settings. |
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| 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:
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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