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Smooth realistic marble ball logo

This tutorial teaches you how to make a very very very realistic and very unique ball logo in 9 simple steps
that any photoshop user can easily follow.

Step #1

Open new Photoshop Document with pixel size of Width 400px and Height 400px.

Step #2

Make sure your foreground color is white #ffffff and background color is black #000000. Fill the first layer with white #ffffff background ALT + Backspace.

Step #3

Create new layer (CTRL + Shift + N) fill it with black #000000 ( CTRL + Backspace )

Step #4

Select Layer 2 and select Filter > Render > Lense Flare
Brightness: 100% Lense type: 105mm

Step #5

Layer 2 still selected. Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates and select Polar to rectangular

Step #6

Select Square Marquee tool ( CTRL + T ) and then right click and select Rotate 180

Step #7

Layer 2 still selected. Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates and select Rectangular to polar.

Step #8

Select Elliptical Marquee Tool and select the circle part of Layer 2. Use your visual imagination on how you will get the circle part.
When you finally selected the circle please press ( CTRL + J ) for new layer Layer 3.

Step #9

Deselect Layer 3 and select Layer 2 and Delete.

Step #10

Take a deep breath and Enjoy your new artistic global logo. You can also change the color by selecting Image > Adjustment > Color Balance ( CTRL + B ) Start playing with it.

Comments are welcome… Congratulation and God bless…

If you guys found any error on this tutorial please feel free to notify me. Thanks.

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