How to Create Mental Sphere

July 14th, 2011 in Photo Effects | Written by Photoshop Star | 14 Comments

Advertisement


This Photoshop tutorial shows how to create mental sphere and get realistic reflection from environment to this sphere.

Final Image Preview

How to Create Mental Sphere

Resources

Step 1

Open Mountain Photo on Photoshop. Go to Image > Image Size and change width to 1000px and height to 664px.

How to Create Mental Sphere 1

Step 2

Open Yoga Photo and copy it to Mountain Photo. Select Yoga Layer and press Ctrl+T to reduce size of photo like shown below.

How to Create Mental Sphere 2

Step 3

With Yoga layer selected, use the Polygonal Lasso Tool (Feather: 0 px, Anti-alias selected) to select women.

How to Create Mental Sphere 3

Don´t forget that we have some landscape areas inside of selection. Hold Alt button and using Polygonal Lasso Tool deselect those areas.

How to Create Mental Sphere 4

Press Ctrl+Shift+I to inver selection and press Delete button to clear selected area.

How to Create Mental Sphere 5

Step 4

Remove selection with Select > Deselect, then correct brightness and contrast with Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast:

How to Create Mental Sphere 6

Step 5

Select background layer (Mountain). Make round selection with Elliptical Marquee Tool on it.

How to Create Mental Sphere 7

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected area to new layer. Select content layer by pressing Ctrl and clicking on thumbnail layer on layers. Load sphere selection by going to Select > Load Selection. Then apply Filter > Distort > Spherize:

How to Create Mental Sphere 8

How to Create Mental Sphere 9

Step 6

With selection still active, create new layer above all layers and fill it with black color.

How to Create Mental Sphere 10

Apply Filter > Render > Clouds to this layer.

How to Create Mental Sphere 11

Step 7

Apply Filter > Distort > Spherize.

How to Create Mental Sphere 12

How to Create Mental Sphere 13

Step 8

Change layer mode to Screen and lower opacity to 57%.

How to Create Mental Sphere 14

Step 9

With selection still active, create new layer above all layers and fill it with black color.

How to Create Mental Sphere 15

Step 10

Deselect area with Ctrl+D an update layer opacity to 0%. After that go to Layer > Layer Style > Inner Glow and apply style with following settings:

How to Create Mental Sphere 16

Final Image

How to Create Mental Sphere

This tutorial is now complete. Hope you liked it!

No related posts.

Follow Photoshop Star

If you want to receive updates from PhotoshopStar, please consider subscribing our RSS feed. You can also follow us on Twitter or on our Facebook page.

If you prefer, you can also subscribe to our monthly Newsletter.

Share this Post

Photo Effects

14 Responses to “How to Create Mental Sphere”

  1. ankur Reply July 16, 2011 at 1:52 am

    wonderful
    i like it

  2. nancy Reply July 17, 2011 at 6:15 am

    thank a lot

  3. movaghari Reply July 24, 2011 at 11:19 am

    wonderful
    i like it

  4. gambizzie Reply July 25, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    kool stuff
    thanks

  5. Merna Reply July 26, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    thank youuuuuuu

  6. Keith Reply July 28, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    always wondered how to do that especially using a glass thanks much good tutorial

  7. sangbloger Reply August 10, 2011 at 3:45 am

    I didn’t think about that way before… only one word for this tutorial GREAT!!!!!

  8. mukhwant Reply August 14, 2011 at 10:01 am

    bossss this is too good…….

  9. suji Reply August 17, 2011 at 10:05 am

    nice thanks

  10. razta Reply August 21, 2011 at 6:19 am

    ill try something like that

  11. Khushboo Reply August 24, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    i really liked the tutorial but just could not understand one bit. why do we need a new black coloured layer with opacity 0…is it to apply layer style or is there another reason to it.

  12. harish Reply August 24, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    kool stuff
    thanks

  13. Kyaw Thu Reply September 7, 2011 at 2:28 pm

    that is fan… I also like this..

  14. Sumathi. Reply October 18, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    This site is very useful thanx a lot..

    One change in last 10th step

    Opacity is 100
    Fill is 0