Quick Basket Ball Button Tutorial

Basic Ball tutorial:

this is the easiest way ive seen to make an effective looking ball.

make a new image, i made 80 * 80 pixel then zoomed right in to 400%.
first draw a circle... hold shift to make it a perfect circle.

http://img169.exs.cx/img169/8679/313.jpg

after this , select the circle (quick way is ctrl + click on layer)
then get a rather large soft brush ( roughly a bit under half the size of the actual circle) and change ur colours back to black and white.

with black selected on the bottom right side of the circle paint over just the edge going a little bit around.

http://img189.exs.cx/img189/2679/265.jpg

when uve done that reduce ur brush size and change the colour to white.
now draw a small white curved line across the opposite corner. then dop it off by dotting white in the direct centre of the line.

http://img191.exs.cx/img191/8412/228.jpg

you should end up with something like this when youve zoomed out.

http://img170.exs.cx/img170/3662/328.jpg

that's cool, nicce 3d-effect really good tutorial too :D

Looks Pretty Cool, I feel with some texture it would look near-real. Very 3D! Thanks much for your submission!

Nice, definitely 3d but it would be cooler if you could try to add texture like taco said and maybe some lines for the bball.

nice 3D lookin ball =) thks

cool ball but not a b-ball

cool button, nice job on the tutorial, keep it up

very efficient B)

lol it was never ment to be a basketball , the name was changed by taco cause it was orange i think

pretty cool

hah, it looks like a basketball, just need to add a few lines and thats it

it really looks like a basketball. but how about adding some texture like a basketball
i will try it as soon as possible.
good job boy...

thank you for showing that bevel/emboss and 3d transform are NOT the only options for 3d!

LINES!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

look nice..

Yeah man, that aint a basket ball! Get some of those black lines on it :)

RAb B)

nice 3d effect :D looks quite nice

simple. effective. not bad. it auctually looks like it was created in 3ds max. props.