PS Tutorial: The creation of the Genie Crystal Ball

This tutorial mainly introduces the production of crystal spheres already some simple solution diagram techniques. The author's idea is unique, using some filters to make a similar crystal ball effect, and then put the picture they want to put into the crystal ball inside, the effect came out.

This tutorial mainly introduces the production of crystal spheres already some simple solution diagram techniques. The author's idea is unique, using some filters to make a similar crystal ball effect, and then put the picture they want to put into the crystal ball inside, the effect came out.

Final effect

1, open the picture shown below, select the Elliptical Marquee tool, set feather to 1 pixels, hold down the SHIFT key to draw a positive circle in place, and then press 2 times Ctrl + J to copy 2 circles.

2, hide the layer 1 replica, select Layer 1, hold down CTRL and click Layer 1 to activate the selection. Execution: Filter > Twist > Spherical, Quantity: 100%, press CTRL + F to perform another layer to make the spherical effect.

3, do not cancel the selection, click Select "Layer 1 copy", Execution: Filter > Twist > Rotation distortion, angle 999.

4, Execution: select > Modify > Shrink, the value is 15, and then execute: select > Feather, the value is 10, and then press DELETE to delete the selection section.

5, press CTRL + M to adjust the curve, improve the "Layer 1 copy" brightness, parameter settings as follows, and then use the rubber tool, size of about 35, opacity for: 15% or so, the layer 1 sphere edge wipe, so that the edge of the crystal ball looks softer.

6, then open the following image of the wizard material, select the elliptical Marquee tool, feather value of 10, also hold down the SHIFT key to select the object, and then use the Move tool to drag the selection directly to the background picture, and adjust to the appropriate position, zoom to the appropriate size.

7, adjust the opacity of Layer 2 is: 75%, and then add a layer mask for it, select the Rubber tool, with the same setting of the 5th Step, the wizard to trim the picture, so that it looks and crystal ball naturally fused together.

8, using the Brush tool, select a Starlight brush, choose white for the crystal ball plus flash.

9, then choose a butterfly brush, choose White, in the screen to increase the effect of butterflies flying.

10, with rounded rectangle tool, draw a slightly smaller than the picture of the selection, press CTRL + Enter to activate the selection, press CTRL + Shift + I to select, press the letter "Q" key plus quick mask, execute: Filter > Twist > Wave, Parameter set the following figure.

11. Execute: Filter > Pixel > Fragment 2 times, then execute: Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen, then press the letter "Q" to exit the quick mask.

12, choose a color you like to fill, cancel the selection, complete the final effect.

Final effect