"Next, another new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N). Make two or three more dots, these of differing sizes but all much smaller than the big ball. Take the smudge tool (this time with a smaller brush size) to these also and mess them up so that the smudges of each ball kind of mix together."
"It’s that time of the year again - getting ready for Christmas. So in this tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to create a christmas ball decoration that you could use for a personalised card or icon."
"In this tutorial we will attempt to make a signature with an airbrushed ball in the middle, and many lines going in all directions from the ball, on a cool background, so to do this we have to do the most important aspect of the airbrushing, create a ball, and a path for the lines"
"5. Let's set up a a couple colors for a gradient before we go any further. Since I'm using the ever popular One ball (which is yellow), I'm picking a faint white/yellow for my foreground and a truer yellow for the background. Selecting the gradient tool, click the radial gradient button on the options bar. We'll come back to the gradient in a minute."
"Turn back on the visibility of the sphere clouds layer. Move it above the ball layer. Scale it down to match the size of the ball. Set it's blending mode to overlay. Play with the opacity until you get what you like. Now the basic bowling ball is done. Make a new layer over the rest, and draw 3 black holes about this size, and in this place:"
"Create a new layer and place it just over the white background layer, then pick the Ellipse Tool and choose a dark grey ( I used #434343) and draw a fat ellipse just below the ball, on one side."
"Now goto blending options, Stroke and make the color white and the width 2 pixels. You can hit ok now, Then change the layer "Opacity" to 72% and there you have it a "Junky 8 Ball"."
"Select the base layer and go to Filter>Render>Lens Flare. and place it roughly in the middle of you mesh ball. And adjust Brightness, until you have something like in the picture below."
"Finished. Hope that wasn't too hard to follow. You could modify this tutorial to make golf balls. (i might do it later). To the right is an example image made using the tutorial, makes a nice button. All that was added was an overlay of color, an outer glow and some text with a slight drop shadow."
"Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new document with a white background color. Draw a sphere in you document, using the "Ellipse Tool" (find this tool in the Tools Tab). To make the sphere symmetric hold down the SHIFT key when you are drawing the sphere:"
"I started this tutorial not knowing exactly where I wanted to go with it, but in the end I found out there are lots of uses for fuzzy balls. Smooth balls are OK, sure, but the fuzzy ones...well...they can be made into dandelions as in this tutorial, fireworks, explosions, animals, you name it. So off we go..."
"In this tutorial we will attempt to make a signature with an airbrushed ball in the middle, and many lines going in all directions from the ball, on a cool background, so to do this we have to do the most important aspect of the airbrushing, create a ball, and a path for the lines"
"I'll give you three guesses as to what you'll be learning in this tutorial! If you guessed that you're going to learn how to create your own photorealistic tennis ball in Photoshop, then you're absolutely right!"
"The Highlight - crate a new layer - make a nice ball with Radial Gradient - dont adjust the color bar as you did in step 2 - use the default "foregound to 0% opacity" - place your highlight in the ball - transform it with Ctrl + click to get a - diamond shape like this - press Ctrl + I to invert and - set the layer to Luminosity"
"Merge all your layers by choosing Layer > Flatten Image. Then choose Image Adjustments > Hue and Saturation. Change the hue until you get something more magma-like."
"11. Now make a new layer and go to custom shapes and choose the other light ball shape and drag one the same size as the first one, right click it and choose rasterize layer then place it just above the first light ball."
"First we will need to make a small pattern to make the "holes" in the ball, so start by making a document 20 by 20 pixels, in there grab the elliptical shape tool and draw a small ellipse as I did."
