Crystal Ball Effect with Adobe Photoshop CS3
Nov 08
We will make a crystal ball effect with adobe photoshop..
Create a document
Fill it with Black..
Open the picture document to edit
Crop The picture with crop tool.
Drag cropped picture to new document
Click Edit > Transform > Warp ( Adobe photoshop CS 3 or higher )
Warp setting : inflate
Click and drag point editor to make the picture looks circle.
Press Enter and the image will look like this
It will not be circle exactly but we will make it circle..
just use elliptical marquee tool .. then apply to the “not” circle picture, Press Shift while making the circle with elliptical marquee tool and it will be a circle exactly.
Click Select > inverse to select outside circle made by elliptical marquee tool and then press Delete on the keyboard.
Click Select > Inverse ( Again ) to select the circle.
Create New layer upper than the circle picture to apply some highlight effect
Use Brush tool with soft round mode, fill all side of the circle with white color.
Fill on the circle just for a highlight to make the crystal ball looks real
Press CTRL + E to merge circle layer to picture layer.
We will making shadow of the crystal ball.
Press CTRL + J to Duplicate merged layer..
Click Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical
Drag to the bottom of original picture.
TIPS : Press SHIFT while move the duplicate image to make it still on the rail
then Click layer > layer mask > Reveal All
Apply gradient (black to white ) from upper the image to the bottom limit of the document.
Reduce the Opacity
The result of this tutorial will be like this :
have a nice day.!!