Make a Realistic Golf ball with help of this Adobe Photoshop Tutorial
Golf Ball Photoshop Tutorial
Step 1
1. Make a new canvas. Here, I used 800 x 800 pixels, 72 dpi, RGB, background white
2. Invert your background to make it black
2. Make a new layer
3. Use Ellipse Shape tool to draw a circle and fill it with white
Step 2
4. Make a new document, 20 pixels x 20 pixels, RGB, background transparent
5. Use your Ellipse shape to draw a circle and fill it with black
Step 3
6. Edit: Define pattern (call it Dot Patterns)
7. Go back to your original document (Ctrl-Tab) and make a new layer
8. With the help of Layer Styles Panel : Pattern Fill your Dot Patterns
9. Merge this layer with Background
Step 4
10. Select white circle fill with pattern Press Ctrl-T to bring up Free Tansform and rotate this layer 45 degrees. Press Enter.
11. Filter:Blur:Gassian Blur 2.0 pixels
12. Repeat Blur commands 2 times more.
Step 5
13. Filter>Distort>Spherize 100%
Step 6
14. Press D to reset your colors, press X to invert the colors, and select your gradient tool (G).
15. Select radial gradient, foreground to background and change the opacity to 50%. Make sure your original circle is still selected, and draw a gradient from the center of the circle to the outer edge
Step 7
Now we have a successful map to apply lighting effects.
16. Create a new layer, hold down alt, and merge visible. This will be our rendering channel. Select all, copy, create a new channel, and paste.
17. Hit RGB composite, and go back to the merged layer
18. Press Shift-Delete and fill with 50% Grey
19. Now go into Filter:Render:Lighting effects
Now here’s where the fun begins. you can create whatever lighting you like. For this one in particular, I used a spotlight and an omni light. Change your texture channel to Alpha 1 (the one we created) and set white is high and height 50.
Step 8
20. Hit okay.
Step 9
21. Now we’ll delete the extra material. Ctrl-click the original circle layer, invert the selection, and hit Backspace. Good. It’s just a little harsh. No sweat, we’ll lighten it up a bit with levels.
Step 10
22. Press Ctrl-L to go into levels, and drag the Black triangle on the gradient at the bottom of the dialogue up to 125. I also brought the grey point down to 1.30
Step 11
22. Now we’ll just finish it up with some layer effects. Hide the two source layers, and double click the final render to get into layer effects.
Here I used the following…
Inner Shadow
Hard Light with Black
Angle -159
Distance 49 px
Choke 0%
Size 62 px
Colour Overlay
Blending mode Color
Colour #929AA0
Opacity 100%
Gradient Overlay
Blending Mode Overlay
Style: Linear
Angle 24 degrees
Scale 70%
I also made the background white again.
Here is the final before touhups…
Step 12
