Photoshop Clear Glass Sphere

Thanks to Lengo67, you can now download a text version of this tutorial at http://www.webng.com/grafx/sphere.zip its about 7.5MB zipped for WordPad. This is a shortcut (7 layers) to creating a very difficult looking glass orb effect. I came up with it myself after getting aggrivated too many times trying to follow long, terribly written, terribly illustated tutorials of the like. Enjoy

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• shere
• orb
• crystal
• ball
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• 10
• CS2

[samiratehran]

I have a problem on 6:30. When I use gradient tool & choose the black paint & click on radial gradient the center comes black ( not white ).

what should i do?

[pokernod]

@samiratehran Youll need to reverse the colors. Click on the rectangle at the top with the Black to Clear gradient. The gradient interface will pop up. The pull your black to the other side of the color bar and click ok. Now your gradient should be right. Hope this helps.

[Zethux]

You could easily tell it's fake because the pen's shadow goes one way and the orb's shadow goes the other way.

[pokernod]

@Zethux You ARE Quick!

[pokernod]

Thank you everyone. When Google and Youtube merged and was FORCING everyone to connect their google account with their Youtube account, I couldnt get into my YT account for forever. But Im going to try to get a few more tuts going soon, I just moved and am very strapped for money right now (graphics art isnt as sought after as it once was) so I just havent had time, and Im trying not to sell my computer for food. Hopefully everything will work out . Thanks again everyone you make it all worth it

[shakaama]

nice of course, the only critique I have is when you spherize the letters in the globe, they aren't offset enough. Meaning, the letters don't seem to change in perspective to looking through a solid glass sphere. It adds more realism to have them really distorted.

[pokernod]

@shakaama Thank you for the critique *snicker* it seems fine to everyone else. I guess if you wanted to though you could spherize twice to get a much more "Distorted" look for the letters on the page (if you wanted to)

[kmead39]

Awesome! Great job, thanks!!

[d196314]

Excellent!!!Thank you so much,my friend!!

[831Kasia]

Wow, this is great! Thank you so much for sharing:-)

[angiedugan]

great tutorial. watched about 10 different ones in order to complete this project and yours was the only one that worked for me. thanks a lot!

[samiratehran]

great job

[Brenniman65]

Finally a logical and well presented tutorial. Thank you!

[MrGreenblack]

That is absolutely amazing !!!!!! Much better than all the other videos that I have seen and they don't even come close to making it look so real. Thanks