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Making Cool Interface Orb

In the following tutorial, you will learn to make clean interface orb. Below is what we are going to get at the end of tutorial.
Making Interface Orb


1 Create a new document around 400px by 400px in size with a white background. Set your Background color to white and Foreground color to light blue. I used #428CDE. Create a new transparent layer on top and make it active. Now select your Elliptical Marquee Tool. Holding Shift Key draw a circle with the Marquee Tool on the center of your document. Now the hit CTRL + Enter Keys.

Making Interface Orb


2 With layer 1's transparency still selected create new Layer. Now Press ALT + Enter Keys. This will fill the layers with blue color. The image should be lookin' like the third picture. Now we are going to make ORB.

Making Interface Orb
Making Interface Orb


3 Layer 2 still selected create new Layer. Now grab your Linear Gradient Tool. On the top select the mode Foreground to Transparent and lower down the Opacity to 50% and check the Diether and Transparency Box like the picture above. Now make a Gradient from bottom to top. And change the Blending Mode to Linear Dodge of Layer 3. Now it's giving some look.

Making Interface Orb
Making Interface Orb


4 Create new layer. With new Elliptical Marquee Tool. Make a circle like the picture at left and hit CTRL + Enter Keys. It will become white. Now lower down this layer's opacity to 20. It will be giving good effect now.

Making Interface Orb
Making Interface Orb


5 Now we are going to add some reality. Select Layer 1 and double click it and add the effects mentioned on left.

Making Interface Orb


6 Select Layer 2 add the blending options at left.

Making Interface Orb
Making Interface Orb


7 Yes, It's looking perfect. Here is the final result. I am sure you will like it.
Making Interface Orb


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