Stroker1

Woman gone with girlies. Hopefully get this out before they are back.

I started with a new doc at 500 x 500.
Two Guides in the center.

They're back, but being nice. Let's continue.

Checked the Grid. I don't know what it was set at, but the Grid was spot on with the Guides and Canvas.
Grabbed the Line Tool and started laying down lines. Two pixels wide with no anti-aliasing.
The horizontal, vertical, and 45 degree ones where easy. Had to guess for the other lines.
Grabbed Circular/Oval Margue.
Held shift + alt and dragged out circles from the center.
Edit > Stroke with 2px in the center.
Deselect and repeat for next circle.
Turned off Grid and Guides.
Still with Circular Margue, I picked a spot in the lower-right and dragged out another circle with shift + alt. This selection is to be off-center, but not too far off.
Filter > Distort > Spherize all the way.
ctrl + shift + i to invert the off-center circular selection.
Hit Delete.

Tada.
Good for a little dressing the next time you are playing around with planets in a HUD or something.

Blinky2004

hahaha DOH! [doh]

Man you got ONE sentence out and they came back huh?! Wheeew! haha Guess you spoke too soon. [oops]

That's great stuff Stroker thanks.
I'm gonna run threw that later for sure.

And i hope OTHERS here will run threw it too.
It shows folks a lot about being resourceful with PS.

Thanks! [righton]

jpfitness

first one okay got it (white background as per tute)

the second one a complete disaster went amiss after or in the channels but kept on going as in the tute........... were did I go wrong Mark?
sfm

jpfitness

here is my step by step Mark so that you can disect it [confused]
sfm

ApWizard

you haven't use the sperize filter on the 3rd image (gradient ball)

ApWizard

Hey Stroker I just try your techniques: Easy & Fast![righton]

well done

ApWizard

this is my 2nd attempt, better than first 1B7

Blinky2004

Wheeew! Hey great work AW, ya got it! [righton]

Sue was beginning to make me feel like i wrote that one in a secret code or something! hahahaa [bustagut]

J/K Sue!

AW is right though about you missing the Spherize filter... and that makes me think you may have just missed another step also. Have another run through the tute -- a little slower -- and see if it works out.

Let me know if it doesn't, so i can help.


Oh just one thing though AW, i just noticed it... a amall detail, not crucial... but you might wanna try it... before merging your vertical lines down, scale them slightly so that the perspective on the sphere appears to be from the top down -- and not straight-on from the side.
Get what i mean?
Look at the bottom of "Style 2 (Pg2)" -- in the GURU TIPS.

ApWizard

ok, thanks u greater man[righton]

Stroker1

I got to thinking about my polar variation. I think it's a great exercise for PS newbies. You know, a handful of basic tools to do something that is kinda cool and/or useful.

However, writing a tut for it isn't my style. If anybody wants to "steal" it, feel free.

Later, if I feel the need, I'll ramble about the lines some more. The method I used, Guess-timating, isn't exactly exact. There is a better way or two.