How To Create a Black Orb in Photoshop CS 3

By Liam Sanchez | 02/10/2010

Page | 1 This is a Tutorial on How To Create a 3D – Orb using Photoshop CS3. We will be
making the orb using a brush effect, shading, and gradients.

First we start by:

1. Creating a Canvass – For this tutorial we will be using 800px by 600px

 >Press CTRL + N to create a New canvass or Select

File>Select New

 A new window will pop-up that says New

 >Edit the Width and Height

 >Width = 800px(pixels)

 >Height =600px(pixels)

 >Resolution=72 or you can type and put a higher resolution

value

2. A Canvass will show up – Defaulted to White in the Foreground and Black in

the Background

 To get the effect of the orb we might want to invert the

Foreground and background color of the canvass

 To Invert press (X) on the keyboard or use the mouse and click
on the (Switch foreground and background color.

 Now that we have switch from Black as Foreground and White

as background.
 3. Let’s start building the orb.

 Lets Press (M) on the keyboard for our Palette to default in the
Page | 2 Marque tool or use the mouse and click on the Marque tool

 Go to the canvass and draw a circle pattern.

 To Draw: Press Shift and Hold and drag the mouse from upper
left corner towards the bottom right corner and release the
Hold of the Shift Key if you achieved the desired size of your
circle.

 After drawing we will do the effect.

 4. To Draw the Effect

 Select the Bucket tool in the Palette. Press (G) on your

keyboard.

Page | 3  And Dump it on the Selected circle it will put a black shade on
the circle.

 The result will be a shaded black circle

 Click on Filter on the Menu bar>Select Blur>Select Gaussian

Blur.
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 Set the radius of Gaussian Blur to 35.5

 It will look like a blurry black shaded circle.

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 Go ahead and select the Brush Tool. Press (B) or in the Palette
look for the brush tool

 Set the Brush Size to 200 and the Hardness is set to 0.

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 With the Foreground now set to White. Point and click your
brush almost to the upper right of the Selected circle.

 The Final touches will be done by Applying Gradient

 Select Filter>Select Blur>Gaussian Blur

 Set Gaussian Blur to 35.5

  And there you have it the Final result is like a number 8 Billiard
Ball.

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