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 ·TekSavvy DSL
| PhotoShop Future Ball Tutorial The first thing that needs to be done is to create a new image, 500x500 pixels. Duplicate the blank layer.
Go into your channel pallet. And create a new channel.
Now select your Elliptical Marquee Tool.
Now make a section in the alpha channel around 1.20x1.20
Hold down alt+shift to get a perfect circle.
Make sure your foreground and background are set to black and white.
Now press crtl+backspace, you now have a white selected circle.
Go to Select->contract, contract by 3 pixels.
Now press alt+backspace, you should now have a white ring with a black center.
At this point we want to define this as a pattern.
Click on you Rectangular Marquee tool. Select the circle leaving a couple of pixels on each side. (It doesn't have to be perfect)
Go to edit->define pattern, name it what ever you would like.
(You can de-select now)
Once you are done doing that, we want a new channel, so make a new channel. Click on the paint bucket tool and fill it with the pattern you just defined. Click on the thumbnail of the pattern to choose the one you just made.
Now fill the new channel with your pattern.
Now we need to make that channel a selection.
 
With your mouse grab that channel and drag it onto the make channel selection.(What I have circled in red)
Now we want to go back to our layers, click on your first layer.
Select->Inverse
Press alt+backspace, to fill the selection with black then de-select.
Go to Filter->Artistic->plastic wrap
Put the settings to 15, 10, and 7.
You should now have something that looks close to this.
Go to filter->distort->spherize, set it to 100 and to normal.
Looks pretty cool eh?
Well we are not done yet.
Save this matrix code onto your hard drive.
Open it in photoshop, press ctrl+a
Then define it as a pattern like how we did before.
Choose the new matrix pattern with your paint bucket. Like how we did before.
Now fill your 2nd layer with the matrix pattern.
You can leave at that if you want, but you could always crop out your globe to get a different result.
Congrats, your done!
Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.:)
Post your results, lets see em!
p.s
Sorry if I missed anything.
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[text was edited by author 2003-05-26 18:28:02] |
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 xiphrexPremium
join:2001-09-13
united kingd | Re: PhotoShop Ball Tutorial Nice tutorial! Good job 
Just a little thing I feel will make it easier...
Instead of making a circle filled white, then contracting the selection by 3 pixels, then erasing the selection, you can just use the marquee to select a circle, then right click the mouse, choose stroke, make the stroke white and 3 pixels, and voila, no need to contract selection or whatever.:D |
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·TekSavvy DSL
| Good point Xiphrex
Thanks
Another point I want to add is that there is a difference between crtl+backspace and alt+backspace, make sure you do the right one.
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[text was edited by author 2003-05-26 18:08:59] |
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Brisbane AU | reply to KingOfPants
Re: PhotoShop Future Ball Tutorial I got lost at "Now fill your second layer with the matrix pattern". It just covered everything with the pattern!
How can I make it look like yours? |
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| Try changing your layer order. That might be it.
You want the Globe on top of the 2nd layer.
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RocksterPremium
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Brisbane AU | reply to KingOfPants
Sweet - that did it!
Hang on a mo for finished product... |
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RocksterPremium
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Brisbane AU | reply to KingOfPants
Um...how do you crop out the globe? |
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·TekSavvy DSL
| Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool, while holding down alt+shift, start from the center and pull out. Once you have that around your globe, go to select->inverse and press backspace. All this is done one your first layer. There is probably an easier way to do this though. Sorry should of explained how.
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RocksterPremium
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Brisbane AU | reply to KingOfPants
There's got to be a better way of going about it than that. I must have done that 50 times already and it's always off centre. Is there a way of marking the exact centre of the sphere so that I don't have to 'trial and error' like that? |
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·TekSavvy DSL
| Use the guides.
Follow the x and y untill they are equal.
Sorry the best I could figure out.
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Got to view, then click on rulers. There should now be a ruler at the top and at the side. put your mouse on to the top ruler and while holding down your left mouse drag down.(until in middle point) then do the same for the on at the side. There are now guide lines showing you the center of the picture, you pick were you want the guide lines, go off the ruler to get the dead center.
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RocksterPremium
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Brisbane AU | reply to KingOfPants
I finally figured out that you could move the selection! Heh, well I'm a PhotoShop dummy so I didn't know you could do that. Here's my try anyway. |
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xiphrexPremium
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united kingd | reply to Rockster
said by Rockster:
There's got to be a better way of going about it than that.
You can instead, before doing the spherize distortion filter, use the marquee to make a perfect circle by holding shift and draging mouse, THEN do the spherize filter.
It will spherize the area you selected, then do a selection inverse, then press backspace. That way you dont need to draw a circle with the marquee that has to fit the the circular object produced by the filter.
I just like to also remind you that, when drawing anything with the marquee, you can move the whole selection by holding the space bar and moving the mouse. The selection area does not change with the space bar held. Hence you could of kept moving the circle and enlarging it until you got it to fit around the object.
Anyway, hope that makes sence. Oh and just spotted Rockster's post about finding out how to move selection, so ignore last paragraph above. |
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| Pretty cool! |
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