Stormy Orb Tutorial

[Ninja]

Hey guys, heres another tutorial, one of my personal favourites. Sorry its kinda long lol. here we go


1. New document (500x500)

2. Filter > Render > Clouds

3. Filter > Render > Difference Clouds

4. Press "Ctrl+F" to repeat the Difference Clouds Effect. Press this about 20 times, until you get a rigid look similar to this.


5. Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates (Rectangular to Polar)


6. Use The Eliptical Marquee to Make a selection around the "Sphere" part of the canvas.


7. Now Right-Click inside the selection and select "Layer Via Copy" (This will copy the sphere part to a new layer)


8. Now select the top layer (Your "Sphere only" layer) and go to the "layer styles" and use the following settings:

Outer Glow:


Inner Glow:


Gradient Overlay:


Pattern Overlay:


Stroke:


9. Now to add color to our Orb. Press "Ctrl+B" to bring up the Color Balance Options, and use the following Settings.


For Midtones:

Cyan: 100
Blue: 100

For Highlights:

Cyan: 75


10. Now Set the "Blending Mode" of the top layer to "Vivid Light"


11. Now Make a Shine on the orb.

[Mazer]

OK, that really is quite nice. But I think the shine might be a bit too much. It looks as though the ball is emitting light. Could you make it glow (blue) and make it less reflective looking?

[Ninja]

ah, i see what u mean. How is this bro?

[Mazer]

Ah, now I get it. The shine was covering up the seam

[Ninja]

hehe . Well everytime you do the difference clouds it always goes random. Sometimes theres no seam, sometimes there is.Darn bad luck lol

[Mazer]

There's gotta be a way. Perhaps some strategic blurring could help?

[Amailer]

Nice tutorial!
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And since clouds are random, I doubt you could get it the same way as the original pic o.O keep trying