Home About Contact Us search

Disco Ball

This tutorial show you step by step how to create a disco ball using just a few filters and techniques..

Start a new document with size 500px by 500px, and fill the background with black.

Create a new layer.

Press "D" on your keyboard to reset your foreground and background to black and white:

Go to Filter » Render » Clouds

Try to get clouds that are evenly spread between grey and white and not too much black. the image to the left is good.

Then go to Filter » Texture » Patchwork

Square Size: 10
Relief: 7 (you can play with this setting)

Select the circular marquee tool , then while holding down the shift key, click and drag to create a circular selection. Make it fairly big. (Holding down the shift key allows you to create a perfect circle selection)

Then go to Filter » Distort » Spherize

Amount: 100%
Mode: Normal

Now we got the disco ball, we need to get rid of the surrounding.

Go to Select » Inverse

Then hit Delete. This will remove the surrounding.

Select the Brush tool and in the brush menu, scroll down and select either one of these brushes:

Set your foreground color to white, and make a few shines around your disco ball.

Because the ball is on a layer of its own, you can use it on any color background.

Enjoy.!

Like this tutorial? Share it


User Comments

jgjgjgj Nov/17/2009 04:24blah
N.BLUE Nov/17/2009 00:33we did this at our school today! it was COOLNESS!
noname Jul/8/09 23:25thanks needs this just in time for project
mush Jan/7/09 22:24thanks!!
Piotr Valsanikav Nov/5/08 10:06what do i creating the shape for the use endager ? i show line and no ligt - plase engish forghiven i a from Stretford, Manchester :)
Kasptumma Oct/6/08 23:34How i may contact admin this site? I have a question. iijiivei
CC May/28/08 00:02Lets break it down, "disco, disco dance YA"
erick Apr/13/08 19:27texture doent work i need help
Charke Oct/21/07 04:23I set the square size to 4 and I feel I got a more realistic looking effect, with smaller peices. Great tutorial!
Krematohm Oct/10/07 16:23A truly great and simple tutorial, it saved me heeps of time and after some tweaking the result was really really good!
MADONNA Aug/12/07 04:59HI ALL
honey suckler Jul/24/07 19:55boo ya u shankd off the heazy AGAIN mandem.. no leazy this shiz is greazyyyy .. basically i believe this shows great form and once again shows the essence of brilliance emitted by your sublime artwork .. Bravo!!
Chewie May/22/07 16:56Unreal.....saved me heaps of time and ssssoooo easy! Keep up the excellent work!
gaz Apr/27/07 02:32fair good, easy 2 do
anon Mar/16/07 10:27so great,so easy
I wish Nov/18/06 22:34pritty pritty shiny shiny -drool-
bharat Nov/4/06 07:35very good
Dee Oct/13/06 09:06So simple to do! Thanks so much for making it so easy and saving me hours searching for a royalty free image :)
Milijana Sep/28/06 11:08This is VERY great... Thank you :)
quantal Sep/22/06 08:20Tanks
Fully Slick M8 Sep/13/06 08:18Wow, these are so simple, but so good. Keep up the good work, because your tutorials are really good.
widie Sep/5/06 23:46it's a great efefct thanx
eli Sep/4/06 16:17so cool thanx for your help
Chris Aug/28/06 21:21Sweeeet!!!! Disco forever!!!! This by far, is one of the best tutorial rendering of a lost icon!!!!Keep rocking!!!!
Luis Jun/17/06 19:15I would use the spherize twice. makes it look more realistic. A lens flare before rastaring helps too.
See 26 - 50 of 56 comments

Leave A Comment

Your Comment:
Your Name:
Your Email:
Your Website: (optional)
ecover design tutorial tutorial tutorial url shortener
psdeluxe Photoshop Lover Good Banners Add Your Site