This tutorial mainly introduces the production of crystal spheres and some simple melting techniques. The author's idea is quite unique. He uses some filters to create an effect similar to a crystal ball, and then puts the pictures he wants into the crystal ball, and the effect comes out.
final effect
1. Open the landscape picture shown below, select the Elliptical Marquee Tool, set the feathering to 1 pixel, hold down the Shift key and draw a perfect circle at the appropriate position, and then press Ctrl + J twice to copy 2 circles.
2. Hide the copy of layer 1, select layer 1, hold down the Ctrl key and click layer 1 to activate the selection. Execute: Filter > Distort > Spherize, Amount: 100%, press Ctrl + F and execute another layer to create a spherical effect.
3. Do not cancel the selection, click to select "Copy of Layer 1", and execute: Filter > Distort > Rotate Distort, angle 999.
4. Execute: Select > Modify > Shrink, the value is 15, then execute: Select > Feather, the value is 10, and then press Delete to delete the selected part.
5. Press Ctrl + M to adjust the curve and increase the brightness of the "Layer 1 copy". Set the parameters as shown below, then use the eraser tool with a size of about 35 and an opacity of about 15% to erase the edge of the layer 1 sphere. Make the edge of the crystal ball look softer.
6. Open the sprite material shown in the picture below, select the Elliptical Marquee Tool, set the Feather value to 10, hold down the Shift key to select the object, and then use the Move Tool to drag the selection directly to the background image and adjust it to the appropriate position. , zoom to the appropriate size.
