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Mirrored Image Ball

John Woods
Adobe Certifed Expert
Photoshop 7.0
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In this tutorial we are going to open the fle Sphere.psd that was created in the
Glass Sphere tutorial.
Sphere.psd fle that was created in the Glass Sphere tutorial.
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Channels Palette Open showing Sphere Selection Channel is present.
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Select>Layer>New from the Banner Bar
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Layer>New Control Panel Open.
Layer>New Control Panel Open, change the name to Mesh Layer
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Layers Palette Open showing the new Mesh Layer. The Mesh layer is empty at
this time.
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Select>Edit>Fill from the Banner Bar
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Edit>Fill control panel open, Contents is using a pattern.
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Edit>Fill control panel open, Click on the small down arrow to open the
Pattern Preset Manager, select the small square that was built and saved in
the Wire Mesh tutorial.
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Mesh Layer with the small
square pattern over the
Sphere.
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Select Layer Style Button, choose Bevel and Emboss.
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Layer Style Bevel and Emboss control panel open.
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Layer Style Bevel and Emboss control panel open. Change the Direction from
Up to Down
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Layer Palette open Bevel and Emboss applied to the Mesh layer.
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Select>Filter>Distort>Spherize from the Banner Bar.
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Filter>Distort>Spherize control panel open, select Mode Normal,Amount 100%
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Select>Load Selection from the Banner Bar.
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Load Selection control panel open, Select Channel:Sphere and also click Invert
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Results of Mesh overlay with Bevel and Emboss:Down applied to Mesh, and the
Spherize Filter applied to the Mesh Layer. Notice that the Inverse of the Sphere
channel is the active selection.
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Select Edit>Clear from the Banner Bar or click the Delete Key on the keyboard.
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Background cleared from around Sphere.
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Select>Deselect from the Banner Bar.
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Mirrored Ball complete, from here you can do an infnite variety of
variations including Overlaying a image, adding text or using the sphere
as a element in another fle.