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1. 
Create a new image, 400x400 pixels, with a transparent background. Choose
the Selection tool & draw an antialiased circle selection in the
centre of your canvas. |
2. Select black as your background colour
and white as your foreground colour. Select the Flood Fill &
choose Sunburst Gradient. In the second tab option choose the Foreground-
Background gradient and make Horizontal 75 and Vertical35.
Flood fill your selection. Go to Selections/Save to Alpha Channel...
and press the Ok button, then on the next box that comes up type in
"Bauble Selection" and press Ok again. Keep the circle
selected. |
3. Go to Colors/Colorize... and
fiddle with the sliders until you find a colour you like for your globe.
For this tutorial, I have chosen Hue 170 Saturation 60. |
4. Create a new layer and name it
"Bauble Decoration". Set your foreground colour to grey and
select the line tool. In the Tool Options - Draw palette, under Type
choose Freehand Line, Style choose Stroked & make
the Width about 3. Make sure Antialias is checked
& that Create as vector and Close path are not
checked. Under the second tab of the tool options dialogue box, make Curve
Tracking 1 and choose the middle option for both Cap and Join |
5. This bit's fun. Draw patterns all over
your globe, sqiggles, circles, stars - it's up to you. Alternativly, you
could use the Shapes tool, set to Stroked with a width of
about 4 to create stars and other shapes. |
6. Select the Selection tool and
click on one of the shapes you have drawn. You will see that all the
shapes become selected. You could also have used the Magic Wand to
the same effect, but I find that this way makes a cleaner selection. We
want these shapes to look a bit glittery, so go to Image/Noise/Add....
Move the slider to 50% and select Random. Next go to Image/Other/Emboss.
I know it looks a bit of a mess at the moment, but it will improve :o) |
7. Go to Image/Effects/Inner Bevel...
and select the Metallic preset.If you like, increase the shininess
setting. So we now have metallic decorations, we just need to colourise
them to get rid of the multi-coloured noise. Go to Colors/Colorize...
and move the sliders until you have a colour you like. For this tutorial,
I wanted gold metal, so I chose Hue 30 Saturation 150. Press
CTRL+D to de-select the decorations. |
8. Go to Selections/Load from Alpha
Channel and you should find that your "Bauble Selection" is
highlighted. Click on Ok to load the selection. Now go to Image/Deformations/Punch...
and move the slider along to 40% and ok it. Chose the Selection
tool again and click on one of the decorations to highlight them all. Go
to Image/Effects/Drop Shadow... - make the Color black, Opacity60,
Blur10 and Horizontal and Vertical both 0 and apply.
Load the circular selection once again from the Alpha Channel, then
go to Selections/Invert and press Delete to remove any stray
drop shadow from around the edge of your bauble. |
| Your Bauble
is almost complete. Click on the link below to go to page 2 where we shall
make the hook for the decoration. |
