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Creating Bubbles and Spheres
Contributed by: Jaygre

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Published on: 04/30/2005 Views: 59441

This little tutorial will show you how to create three dimensional bubbles or spheres in your photographs. At the end I will show you a few other examples you might want to use for different effects.

starting

Open your image and duplicate your layer (to preserve your original) by dragging the background layer to the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers pallette. Go to the elliptical marquee tool in the toolbox. If you don't see it, click and hold on the rctangular marquee tool adn the rest of the selection tools will pop up. In the options bar, at the top of your screen, set the feather option to "0" and "Fixed Aspect Ratio" in your style box, so you will draw a perfect circle. You can also hold down the shift key as you draw rather than using the "Fixed Aspect Ration" option.

the shape

Create a selection over the part of your image you want to create a bubble over. Copy and paste into a new layer, or hold down the Command key (Mac) or Control key (PC) and type a j. Then, you MUST "RESELECT" this area. The next step will not work if you have not "RESELECTED". Hold down the command key (Mac) or the Control key (PC) and click the new layer in the layers palette. You should then see the marching ants again. Or from the menu choose Select > Reselect. (Note: if you want to make more than one bubble you need to follow the complete process for each one, or the results won't be the same)

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1. Creating Bubbles and Spheres
2. "Effects"

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