Glassy marbles

drakaan · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:08 pm

RenRob wrote:

This is as close as I got on the pdn orb. I made a circular selection and filled it with a black to red radial gradient. Then added highlighting at the top similar to this tutorial (just reversed the gradient). The background isn't quite right. I used the light rays add-in with bright red foreground and added zoom and gradient blurs. That should get you close.

That's pretty good, actually...the one in the PDN fanatics logo has one additional larger highlight with a lower opacity (look close, and you'll see it). Background was added white noise plus zoom blur deluxe on top of some random lines with radial blur applied.

Goonfella · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:25 pm

This is my first decent shot at a glassy marble. I basically followed the tut with just a different colour. Although it does not say to use it in the tut I found that the best way to get the `glass' look on the large oval on the fifth layer was to use overlay as the blending mode.
I just could not get that glassy look otherwise.

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an-evil-guy · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:44 pm

this is my first attempt still a complete novice but.......

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theonlychad · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:46 pm

great job evil

look really good. Keep up the good work mate.

barbieq25 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:04 pm

I think you did a marbellous job! We all start somewhere...you did really, really with this one. Keep it up!

an-evil-guy · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:43 am

aw shucks

i do my best thank you v. much

LanceMcKnight · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:22 pm

Actually, that is a very good job. Well done.

Pixey · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:06 pm

Here's mine

and thanks so much for the tute!

blanco111 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:20 am

I spent many hours with this tutorial. But I learned a lot. It's still not as marblely as the one shown in the tutorial, but it doesn't look like an alien planet (like my previous attempts) either.

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PS How do I shrink the dimensions of an image I upload here?

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