A Cool High Tech Sphere

Hi everyone, this time I’m going to show you how to make a cool high tech looking sphere

Step 1

Start with a new document, I used 800 X 600. Make a new layer and call it “background”, fill it with white.
Again make a new layer, but this time call it: “sphere”

Make a 400px X 400px round selection. Take your gradient tool and make your foreground color white and your background color should be black. Now make a radial gradient and use it like this:

Step 2Now with the “sphere” layer active, press ctrl+U. in this new window you can give the sphere the color you prefer, just make sure that “colorize” is checked. Then make a new layer and call it: “Cut out.”

Now, make a new circle selection, only this time a lot smaller then before. Apply the same radial gradient as you did before, but these times do it like this:

 Step 3

Press Ctrl+U again and repeat the process we did before. Also give it a 1px black stroke, with an opacity of 32%
This is how it should look by now:

 Step 4

Make a new layer underneath the “cut out” layer. and call it: “Big inse.” Grab your pen tool and draw a rounded path from the top to the bottom.

 Step 5

Now take your brush tool and select a 1px white brush. Go back to your pen tool and right click on the path. Click on “stroke path” in the new window, select the “brush” from the dropdown menu and uncheck “stimulate pressure”

With your move tool active, press your down button 1 time. repeat the “stroke path” process, but this time, your foreground color should be black, don’t use the move tool this time. Delete the path and set the “big inset” layer to “soft ligh.”

 Step 6

Repeat the whole process with the 2 “stroke path” things, until you’ve got enough inset lines, just make sure to make each inset line on a new layer.

And here we are finished already. To make it look real, add some shadowing  underneath for a added effect.

Check out the final outcome: