Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - How To Create a Mental Sphere with a Background

For this tutorial,(For the first time, I am not using my personal picture as a model! haha) I will show you on how to create mental sphere and get realistic reflection from environment to this sphere.
>>>>> *credits: Photos are from their respective owners. SO DON'T SUE ME. <<<<< -denztriker

Materials needed:

Mountain photo

Fairy Photo

Now let’s start!

Open Photoshop. Then create a preset with width to 1000px and height to 664px.

Then Copy the Mountain Photo located in this site then pasted it on the new canvas you created. Resize it to fit in.

Then open the Fairy photo in Photoshop. Copy the whole image then paste in on the Mountain Photo. Resize the Fairy photo. Just like the image shown below.

Then use Magic Wand Tool with a Tolerance of 29% then select the background of the Fairy tool. After selecting the main background, press Delete.

Remove selection with Select > Deselect, then correct brightness and contrast with Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast: Brightness: 11 Contrast: -25.

Select background layer, the Mountain photo layer. Make round selection with Elliptical Marquee Tool on it. Like this one:

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected area to new layer. Select content layer by pressing Ctrl and clicking on thumbnail layer on layers. Then Load the sphere selection by going to Select >>> Load Selection.

 Then apply Filter >>> Distort >>> Spherize.

With selection still active, create new layer above all layers and fill it with black color.

Apply Filter >>> Render >>> Clouds to this layer.

Apply Filter >>> Distort >>> Spherize.

Change layer mode to Screen and lower opacity to 50%

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With selection still active, create new layer above all layers and fill it with black color.

Deselect area with Ctrl+D an update layer opacity to 0%. After that go to Layer >>> Layer Style >>> Inner Glow and apply style with following settings:

And here is our final result. Don’t forget to save your work as PSD then create a backup.

I hope you like it.