Realistic Orb

2Tuts in one day, w00t!!!! :lol:

This is a fairly short and easy tut made because its been requested a few times. It will teach you how to make a realistic looking glasstype orb >.<

1> Create a new document, or do it in the sig you want it in, it doesn&#39;t really matter.

2> Grab the Circular Marquee tool, if its the square one just right click it :P

3> Make sure you keep hold of SHIFT so its a perfect circle, make it 3pixels smaller than you want the orb, you will se why later.

4> Fill the selection in with a colour of your choice on a new layer

5> Apply the following blending options:

Inner Shadow
Leave everything default but:
--distance : 2pixels

Inner Glow
Leave everything default but
--Mode : Normal
--Colour : Black
--Size : 50 px THIS WILL VARY DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF YOUR ORB&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;
--Range : 100

Bevel + Emboss
Leave everything default but:
--Depth : 1
--Size : 1
--Soften : 16

Satin
Leave every default but:
--Distance : 7
And choose the INVERT box

Gradient
Leave everything default but
--Opacity : 35%
You can tick reverse to get a different effect

Stroke
Leave everything default but:
--Opacity : 28
--Fill : Gradient
--And tick &#39;REVERSE&#39;

I got this:
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/658/screen5ii.th.jpg

6> Grab the circular marquee tool and make a selection like so:
http://img449.imageshack.us/img449/5716/lol9yn.th.jpg

7> Grab the gradient tool and click the gradient bar at the top, make it so half is white and the other half has 0% opacity and drag it from the top of the selection the 3/4 of the bottom.

Move it down 2 or 3 pixels and you should get something like so:

[img=http://img449.imageshack.us/img449/7271/finish9xm.th.jpg]

Ill leave the rest up to ;)

any problems let me know,
Ben

Who requested it? :P JK
Nice tut [as always]

I don&#39;t knopw what ive done different but it don&#39;t look like they normally do :huh:

thats cool&#33; :D

You can even add a small motion blur at angle 0 and 2 px on your lighting layer and keep repeating it till it looks good...

This gives me an idea for something. Thanks a lot&#33; :)

That is a very simple effect, i don&#39;t like telling people what to do so i ain&#39;t told you how to get special effects so play around with it until it looks good ^_^

Nice&#33; Could use on a website maybe?

Yeah i know a few sites that have actualy used it as an enter page, i did to ;)

I tried this and failed miserably :( (that&#39;s not saying much though, lol) But I&#39;m goin&#39; to give it another shot.

yoa thanx... nice one... will try it out&#33;

i got some pretty cool results from this, thanks much :D

No problemo

awsome tut just would be better if u had more images .. but overall its good

awesome thanks :P

What im here for :P

My question about all these orbs I see around is how to remove the background, so all you have is the actual orb itself?

You can remove the BG and save it as a GIF but it will lose quality, or you can save it as a PNG but will only work in firefox.

Sweet. Thanks man, it works. :)

Edit: Here's what I actually came up with so far. Thanks for the tip man.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...Untitled-1.png

No probs