Learn How To Make an Awersome Looking Orb

the final result looks awesome!

Work on how you explain the steps. Step Three is very confusing.

whoops! actually all the pictures should be one step up, the picture for step two should be under step one and so forth.

nice tutorial! what OS are you using? thats a cool user interface sorta thing!

thanks! its just windows with a theme

@pienose fixed the image order now, is it correct ?

Step three makes no sense, the way you've put it doesn't work...

yep! perfect!

wtf?? dude how the hell do u start off with a god damn circle with a ruler?? wheres the ruler.
You know wat i start off with, a white background and my circle doesnt want to cut or w.e u did cause u didnt explain crap

The rulers are those numbers you see on the left and the top of the image. If you want a transparent background, select it under the advanced options when you create a new image.

Nice tutorial! Simple but effective

Awesome tut, thanks :)

I am just trying out this tutorial, im quite newbie at this. But when i opened a document at 600 by 600 i had a white background and onyl one layer, why on the picture is there two layers and the grey anf white shaded checkers design. Did i miss a step or something.

God i must be dumb none of those steps make any sense, it like these tutorials were made for advanced gimpsters. I have no clue of one step from another i can't get past step one.

Nice effect, simple in hind-sight. - to the author, it does get comfusing, and remember we are stupid! please try not to over simplify your explaination, eg the phrase "then do as before....", do what as before? before when? with what expected result?

ok, right, thanks for all the feedback! and yes this is a rather advanced tutorial, but it's also my first so bare with me ;)

I might have a go at doing this a bit better, but I would rather wait and do another tutorial. But then you'll have to wait until I get an idea =P

Thanks for fucking confusing the hell out of me.............

Please explain step 3. Please. Did you put this tutorial here to show off or to help people?

ok, I probably won't be doing any more tuts here since I just picked up photoshop but I will try and explain step three, gimper can put it into the main post if he wants. Here goes-

you have your circle selected and you get your circle select tool, then holding ctrl (to subtract from the bule circle selection), you draw a smaller circle at the bottom of your blue circle. then invert this and fill it with white This is where I should have posted another screenshot but you should have a whole load of white. You only want white inside the circle so you select that and invert it then hit delete. I really hope this helps!

wtf? why would I post a tutorial to show off? if I wanted to show off I wouldn't want people to be able to copy my thing would I? but I acknowledge that maybe I haven't been that helpful >.< so I posted another comment explaining... please go and read that

why i don't know dose it matter no its called sharing knowledge if no one did no one would learn and then you would be a stupid retard like you are now. Btw this is the the person called pienose
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wtf? why would I post a

this was pretty confusing...maybe explaining the steps a little better might help.....

Step three makes no fucking sense. When I do it, I end up with the entire thing glowing EXCEPT the part that should be. I tried inverting the selection but then EVERYTHING glows!

This was interesting to try, but as a beginner I found the explanation a little to breezy in some parts (ie breezing over the step-by-step) and a little to technical in others (using terms like alpha select with no explanation).

I did end up with some spheres with light effects -- just not what the end result of the tutorial aspired to.

I realize that step-by-step is tedious, especially writing for beginners. I did the Surreal Art tutorial and found it very clear; my end result matched perfectly. THAT was clearly instructed.

Very cool tutorial. How do you do the shadow effect at the bottom? I imagine it is a oval ellipse feathered black in a new layer behind the globe, but in front of the white. Am I right?

Yet another needlessly confusing and poorly written tutorial.

Don't quit your day job, m8.

God i must be dumb none of those steps muhabbet make any sense, it like these tutorials were made for advanced gimpsters. I have no clue of one step from another i can't get past step one. mIRC

cant do step three at all....don't know what exactly we have to do there....select what and subtract what selection from it.....

A for effort, and your end result looks very nice, but your instructions are very poorly written. You need to stop breezing through things and actually take the time to carefully write them down step-by-step. You take far too much for granted, and we can't read your mind. Just become something seems like it goes without saying to you doesn't mean this is the case for everyone else.

AWFUL TUTORIAL... what else there is to say...

Hey everyone. Yes, Step 3 is a bit confusing if you read it fast, but he did post a comment showing that he tried to explain it better.

Step Three:
- Now make a new layer and name it 'Glow'
- Right*-click on the circle layer (In the layer dialog menu) and select "Alpha to Selection"
- Now make a circular selection near* the bottom of your circle, but make sure you hold ctrl!
(What he means is, after selecting the whole circle, hold down ctrl, and make a circle near the bottom of the circle-selection. *Holding down ctrl, subtracts from your original selction.*)
(-Invert the selection by going to Select->Invert)
-(Using the bucket fill tool) Fill this with white
- Now (go to the menu bar and press) Select*->feather
- (In the feather menu) Feather it by 100 pixels.

I think this should help you get through Step Three, but I might have messed a few things up.

Hope this helps.

you messed this up it makes now sense at all

Please could u explain the 'step three' a little better plssssssssssss
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Correct english makes everything easier. This tutorial could be good if you explained correctly.

This tutorial is awesome!