Fireworks Create Mac crystal ball effects

Hear a lot of friends mentioned Crystal ball (or Mac Sphere) to draw the problem, want to write a small tutorial for everyone, I hope you like!

Here is the Dream Forum friends and I made the crystal ball.

　
　　 production software:Fireworks MX 2004
　　 Use method:Radial gradient, linear gradient, inner glow, feather
　　 Production essentials:One is the allocation of color, the second is the light changes in the sphere, these light changes to be adjusted by the white arc type.

　　 Production steps:

1. Open the FW, select Ellipse tool in the toolbar, set the fill category to "Radial" in the Properties dialog box, and select the color in the fill color selection.

2. In the Open color selector, select the radial starting point and the end point of the color, according to my personal understanding, from left to right, from top to bottom, from the principle of deep shallow to choose.


　　 Tip:Color matching is entirely dependent on personal experience and long-term art cells to understand, but even if the color with not familiar with the friends do not worry, you can find the Web page color, the color is also from deep shallow transition, can help everyone.

3. Then drag the starting point of the "radial" handle, the color of the deep side on (round handle point), the color of the light upward (square handle point), so that it exactly equal the circle.

4. Then draw a small circle, which is almost one-second of the circle, set the fill category to linear in the Properties dialog box, select White in the Fill color selection, and then set one of the transparency to 0. Next adjust the position of the handle so that the transparent side is at the bottom and white at the top. (Hint: this can reflect the sphere of the high light, so that the ball presents three-dimensional sense.) ）



5. Press the ALT key to drag the top of the circle to the bottom, so that a copy of a circle, so that two circles up and down, and then adjust the following circle "fill category" for "Radial", and then adjust the position of the handle, look at the figure to adjust. Finally, the opacity of this layer is set to 50%.


Tip: To do this round is to supplement the lower part of the circle color is not enough to reflect the ball three-dimensional.

6. Now add the "inside glow" effect to the circle, click on the + number in the "Property bar", select "Inside Glow" under "Shadow and Halo", and select the color (this color is the same as the Dark one in which you just started setting the gradient), with a width of 2, opacity of 80%, and a softening of 8 and an offset of 0.


7. Use the font to get a symbol or image in the middle of the sphere (add shadow for it), make the sphere more beautiful.


8. And then the final step, and then draw an ellipse, as the shadow of the ball, in the "Properties" column color selected as a gray solid, the edge feather is 13, set this layer of opacity to 90%, and then drag the layer below the sphere layer. By this, a crystal sphere is finished.


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