Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create this glass
orb and then how to quickly change its color. Create a new document by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + N.
Make the Width: 870 pixels, the Height: 870 pixels and the Resolution: 150 pixels per inch.
The Color Mode is RGB and 8 bits per channel. Then, click OK.
Open your Gradient Tool and make sure the Linear Gradient icon is active.
Click the gradient bar to open the
Gradient Editor. Click the "Black, White" preset and click OK. Go to the bottom of your
document and press and hold Shift as you drag up the Gradient Tool to the top. Then, release.
Pressing Shift kept your gradient vertical. Next, we'll locate the exact center of our document.
Go to View and make sure Rulers and Snap are checked. If they aren't, just
click on them. Go to the ruler at the top and drag down a guide line to the center.
It'll snap in place because we have Snap checked. If you don't see the guideline, press Ctrl
or Cmd + H. Go to the ruler on the left and drag out another guideline until it snaps to the center.
Open your Elliptical Marquee Tool and go to the center of the guidelines.
Press and hold Alt or Option + Shift
as you drag out a circular selection approximately this size.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. We'll fill the selection with black. To do this,
press Shift + the F5 key at the top of your keyboard, which opens the "Fill" window. Open
the fly-out list and click "Black". Then, click OK. Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Next, we'll change the black circle to a color. Double-click the thumbnail of
the black circle to open its Layer Style window. Click "Color Overlay" and the color box.
For now, in the hexadecimal field, type in 0078FF and click OK. You'll be able to change the
color later. Click "Inner Glow". Click the color box and type in 000D4F. Then, click OK.
The opacity is 75%, the Source is "Edge" and the Size is 250 pixels. Then, click OK.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. Fill it with black by pressing Shift + F5
key again and, since Photoshop remembers the Fill that you picked the last time, just press
Enter or Return to accept it.
Go to Filter, Render and Lens Flare.
The Brightness is 100% and the Lens Type is 50-300mm Zoom. Then, click OK.
Go to Filter, Distort and "Polar Coordinates".
Tick "Polar to Rectangular" and click OK.
Go to Edit, Transform and "Flip Vertical".
Go back to Filter, Distort and "Polar Coordinates" and this time, tick "Rectangular to Polar".
Then, click OK.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the black circle to make a selection of its shape.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the
active layer. Click on the chain-link to unlink the layer and its layer mask. This allows
us to reposition or resize either of them independently of the other. Click the
orb to make it active and press Ctrl or Cmd + T to open your Transform Tool. Go to a corner
and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow, press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you
drag it in or out until it's the same size of the circle under it. Then, press Enter or Return.
Change its Blend Mode to Luminosity. Next, we'll brighten our orb by clicking the
Adjustment layer icon and clicking "Levels". In order to prevent the background from brightening,
we need make the Levels adjustment layer into a clipping mask.To do this, you can either
click the clipping mask icon or press Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
I'll make the Highlight Input level: 150. Next, we'll create a reflection.
Click between the orb and its layer mask to activate the chain-link, which links them again.
We'll place all the layers that comprise our orb into a folder.
To do this, Shift-click on the bottom layer to highlight all the orb layers
and press Ctrl or Cmd + G. Make a copy of the folder by pressing Ctrl or Cmd +J.
Go to Edit, Transform and "Flip Vertical". Press "v" to open your Move Tool
and press and hold Shift as you drag the copy straight down until it touches the bottom
of the top orb. Reduce its opacity to between 30% - 50%. Next, we'll fade out the reflection.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask next to the top folder.
Click the chain-link to unlink the folder and the layer mask.
Press "G" to open your Gradient Tool.
Go to the bottom of your document
and press and hold Shift as you drag the tool up to the top of the shadow. Then, release.
To hide the guide lines, press Ctrl or Cmd + H. Let's slide the orb and its reflection up.
Shift-click on the bottom layer to highlight both folders and press the up arrow on your
keyboard until you're happy with its position. Notice, the layer mask stayed in place
because we unlinked it. Next, we'll change the color of the orb and its reflection.
Shift-click the top folder to make both layers active and press Ctrl or Cmd + G to place them into
another folder. Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Hue/Saturation".
Clip it to the folder to restrict the colors to just the orb and its reflection.
Drag the Hue slider to the left and right to change the colors.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!