Making an electric ball. In this tutorial you are about to learn how to create an electric ball!

Create a new document sized 400×400 with White Background.

1. Open a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N and click ok) create a circle using the Eliptical Marquee Tool. I recommend using “shift” during the selection. Make the Foreground color #F2E044 and click Alt+Backspace to fill. call the layer “ball”
result:

2. now, right click on the “ball” layer and choose Blending Options.
Fill it with these properties:


You may get this result:

3. Open a new layer called “reflection”, select an elipse with the Eliptical Marquee Tool without using shift, and fill it with white color.

4. Select the circle from the “ball” layer (Ctrl+Click on layer) and then Ctrl+Shift+I to select inverse. make sure you are working on “reflection” layer and click delete. Make “reflection” layer’s opacity 4%.

you can repeat step 3 and 4 with a bigger ellipse, making a new layer put it BELOW the “reflection” layer and change opacity to 8%.

result:

5. to create a background we will use Gradient tool, select it by clicking “g” button, you might see your gradiant colors below the “file ruler” change it with these criterions:

open a new layer called “background”, make sure it’s the lowest layer, and use the gradient tool on oblique, from the left bottom to the right top.

result:

6a. for making the electric lines, open a new layer at the top called “line” we should use the “brush tool”, white colored and 1px sized. make a straight line using Shift.
6b. now go Render>Distort>Wave use the current properties and click OK. go Edit>Fade Wave.. and Use opacity 50% and mode Opacity

result:

Repeat step 6b and go again to Filter>Distort>Wave. Click OK. set layer mode to Opacity.

7. Right click on “line” layer and go Blending options. use these properties:

8. Duplicate “line” layer and Transform it by Ctrl+T as you want. repeat this step 3~5 times.

9. Now Open a group at the top by clicking Ctrl+G, call it “electric” and grab all the “line” layers into the group.

10. move all the lines to be “on” our ball and make a Layer Mask to the group layer. (Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal All) select the circle from “ball” layer, Ctrl+Shift+I , make sure you are working on the Layer Mask of “electric” group and click Alt+Backspace.

result:

11. To add a little shadow, Duplicate “ball” layer and put the duplicated layer below “ball” layer, fill it with white (make sure you didn’t deselect). now on the duplicated layer go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur with Radius of 21.5 pixels. click OK.

You’re Done!

final result: