How To Create 3D Ball in Photoshop iBrandStudio

In this tutorial were going to learn how to create a 3D ball with photoshop in 8 steps. We also included a PSD file as source files.
Well use of a few fundamental tools in Photoshop such as circle tool, brush tool, and layer styles combining them with easy and creative techniques to come up with a graphic that you can adapt into icons, infographics, and other design projects.

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Once you have finished the tutorial, you should have something like this.

Lets get started!

Step 0

We start with creating a new file. I give the name ball, with length and with 500px and background transparent.

I use the color #363636, you are free to choose the background color, but my advice is better if you wear a darker color than the color of the object that we will create

And the result will be like the image below.

Step 1

Create a circle with using ellipse tool, in order to produce a perfect circle, press the shift key when making a circle. Colors that I use #00c6ff

Step 2

Now we are going to apply some Layer Styles. You can do this by double clicking on the layer.

You should end up with this

Step 3

Create a duplicate layer abobe the ball layer, then give the settings on the layer style

And you should end up with this

Step 4

Again create a duplicate layer abobe the ball layer, then give the settings on the layer style

And you should end up with this

Step 5

Once again create a duplicate layer abobe the ball layer, then give the settings on the layer style

And you should end up with this

Step 6

Create a white circle a shown below

Then add layer mask on Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal. Next with gradient tool pull the line as shown below.

Now we are going to apply some Layer Styles.

You should end up with this

Step 7

Create a new layer, then give the setting on brush tool

Select a circle layer, then back on the new layer and add brush

You should end up with this

Step 8

Adding the new layer below the ball layer, then add brush with the colors #000000 as shown below

Drag to expand the image

Next open Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur

And finally you should end up with this

Conclussion and Download the PSD files for free!

Take a look at the final image. I hope you learned something new!

Download the source files here : 3D Ball Sources (3291)

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