Program: Adobe Photoshop
Difficulty: 1/5
Info: Make a quick, but still cool looking, 3D orb.

First Step: Make a 300x300 image.. Any background will work, but I used white.

Second Step: Make a border for your orb. First make a new layer, second choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool and hold down shift to make a perfect circle, next select two colors (a light and dark version of it) and use the Gradient Tool to fill it.
Something like this should work.

Third Step: Make another new layer as well as another circle that's smaller than the first first. Fill it with two colors as well, both light and dark.
Like this.

Fourth Step: Make another new layer as well as a new circle, alot smaller than the last two. Change the foreground color to white and then fill it. Set the opacity to a low number, I set it to 36.
Hopefully it should look like this.

And you're finished! Now you can add anything you want to it.. Like an inside image or a shadow if you'd like..

Here's something I made..

Good luck! And if you got questions, shoot. ^^


Last Edit: Aug 24, 2005 14:14:49 GMT by Nicola