Photoshop Tutorial: Surreal Glass Sphere Floating Within a Landscape

In today's Photoshop tutorial I show you a few simple steps to create a surreal glass sphere floating within a photograph. This cool effect is perfect for creating interesting album covers, or just to transform your landscape photos into abstract art pieces. All it takes is a few relatively simple Photoshop tools, a couple of filters, and a touch of shading, making it a pretty easy effect you can create in minutes.
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[@Miguel_Joset]

What did you press in 3:04 to make it a circle again

[@darkthief1402]

@@Miguel_Joset CRTL on the layer preview

[@Kris-Ako]

where do I put these free bundles in photoshop please? sorry for the Noob question lol.

[@Itsnobjdy]

Can you do an updated tut

[@aching26]

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[@DanLucaz]

Outstanding tutorial, simple effects with a gorgeous result. Thanks, Chris!

[@barrylee6256]

So well explained. Nice n' quick too. Great tut.

[@mjg6377]

This came out so awesome. Thanks.

[@seyoungkim2746]

Thank you it looks amazing

[@vincentcho5177]

Awesome and easy to follow!

[@benspalding416]

Fascinating.

[@mayavichy4987]

An awesome turorial!

[@peggymccauley3651]

Thank you for this enjoyable tut. Really enjoyed the process.

[@jacobaustin-sides2875]

Very good tutorial. Simple and quick.

[@sergioZI]

That's awesome. Thanks mate

[@mimosarelaxation4054]

Excellent merci 👍

[@FrilexBro]

It is amazing

[@d1bobbyg]

That's a cool one Chris, Merry Christmas mate.

[@ishsingh8446]

I think this was a very well explained video

[@jjcm3135]

Much thanks

[@antlexxstudio]

Great video! Thank you!

[@patrickboulanger4850]

merci pour ce tuto

[@saja.]

Super, very helpful for my homework and it looks amazing!

[@computer__eyez]

easy to produce, made a wonderful photo manipulation exercise. clear & concise. knocked it out in about 10 minutes. thank you!

[@T9rnad0]

Nice!!

[@sampathchaminda2866]

You well explained. I've did it nicely. Thank you for your great help. God bless you!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@anton1492]

brilliant!

[@fqtutorials]

Great tutorial!

[@oxiary]

gorgoeous

[@hertzdesigns9166]

This is cool

[@sazalsarkar2130]

Wow, Really cool this video.

[@HatecraftPaladin]

Easy enough to follow. Looks good too :)

[@m.k.malhotra6874]

Amazing

[@EASYWAYtricks]

wow😍😍😍👏

[@ThaiGPSDD]

thank you very much

[@noamgolan9367]

Hi, thanks for a good tutorial :) I got stuck at 03:04 when you straighten the circle after twirl effect, can you tell me how to keep moving forward?

[@FantasyFuchs]

Cool

[@Rholandbucci]

Chris, impecable presentation. Absolutely interesting speech line and very straightforward how-to. Hats off, great man.

[@spankyfriedwombat2058]

Had to use this for school

[@AndyTurba]

Great! Thanks!

[@oneskill_ppt]

delicious :)

[@eriksloan9803]

2:59, what are you doing to get the circle shape back?

[@eendozo12]

great tutorial

[@frankied7775]

thanks

[@ceremonyoflight]

Epic

[@obraniakdesign7953]

🔵🔴Great job😊

[@mohammadmukith2567]

Thank you very much for helping, its Mohammad.

[@andrefeenstra7976]

Thank you. It looks great. I have done what you did in the video. Thank you.

[@isabellopez4909]

great tutorial. Simple, clear, and easy to understand with voice commands. Thank you!

[@chinatown765]

What opacity do you recommend for the painted layer?

[@mnmgirl24]

Love it! Do you think you could do a Wonder Woman 1984 poster style? I tried and uh...didn’t work out for me 😅

[@mariopeppinomx]

If we want to show you our versions, there's a hashtag o something to tag you?? Thanks btw, it's a great tuto Spoon!

[@kevinfloyd117]

Great video !! Next time I would suggest you slow down a little then it’s perfect 🤩

[@thetryfan6529]

Thank you. What's the shortcut to hide a ruler grids on CS6, Win7?

[@nauikunart]

ctrl r for rulers

[@VLS28]

Great tutorial, thank you so much. One question only. Can we transfer this sphere out of this canvas in another photo?

[@dacee7943]

you can if you select the sphere and save it as a .png

[@187designz]

you can make a group of the sphere, with the highlights and shadows layers and drag-n-drop it to another photo. just keep in mind, you have to readjust the highlights and shadows of the sphere to match the overall lighting of the new photo.

[@Riltadehora]

this is so mr walker core

[@brandonsegura7535]

Literally had to watch this 20 times cause he’s moving to fast and he’s pressing buttons where I don’t know where he’s pressing

[@Marcelmikael]

where u abel to finish ?

[@underratedmedia9792]

And I thought I was the only one lol . I had to pass rewind

[@BrentonWeyi]

You can reduce the playback speed in the video settings. maybe helpful for the future!

[@winline2001]

same

[@Eleivana777]

I remember when I started using PS about 10 years ago. It was so frustrating to watch these tuts. I didn't even understand foreground and background color ! LOL. Now I can watch, understand and do it without taking notes and I am a 66 yr old Grandma. You'll get it. Honest. It will just take lots and lots of practice. For beginners, I think having the instructions written out, step by step is best. Good luck! :)

[@Lucas.Stanbrough]

4:50

[@MegasTeque]

Up to the Add Layer Mask bit I was doing fine, but his dot was white with a black background, mine was black with white background, couldn't switch it, so i flung my laptop out the window.

[@deaddooper]

Shouldn't the reflection be inverted though?

[@partsofearth]

I had a very surreal dream. There was a thick fog but then at a height of a few meters above us the water was turning into floating water balls, much like this picture. My friends and I were touching them and they would pop like bubbles and pour water on us. I googled this toturial to be able to illustrate the dream

[@mikcuzynot1346]

That’s actually really cool

[@hammads9045]

What was the twirl for?

[@artsparadisopracticaleduca4378]

The twirl basically distorted the sphere is a twisting pattern.

[@quentingomis6779]

what did you do at 3:06 ?

[@mjg6377]

First he CTRL Z’d to undo the oblong blob. Then he hit CTRL and clicked on Layer 1 to make the dotted circle around the sphere. Then you do the twist.

[@HumbertoHernandez]

I thought I was watching a Blame The Controller video hahaha

[@user-cc1eo3fs4v]

Yeh Twirl ke baad amorphous mein kaise change hogi Please explain

[@glenc3249]

I've just had a thought while watching this tutorial; it's a bit picky though... How could a sphere project what is behind it onto the front facing side? Wouldn't it look better with an image of what is behind the photographer, then place it on the sphere to create a reflection. I know that would involve using your own images, having to record what is behind you, as well as in front..... unless that is, you use Google Street View to copy the scenes using the 'Print Screen' keyboard button to get a screen grab. Other wise a great video mate, made even better with commentary!!

[@rohanagrawal5263]

Because it's a glass sphere, so you see through it.

[@thorn6795]

Ok I have an Acer laptop, and I don’t what the “command key” is?

[@77dris]

Spoooooooooooooon! (who can guess what that is reference to?)

[@edwinquinn5786]

This doesn't work anymore because of smart filters.

[@chrisaether2645]

He didnt clarify this, so If you are like me on windows PS, you hold Shift to scale non proportionally. Save yourself time.

[@tts2831]

0:55

[@AutoMotivate]

Your shortcut commands aren't the same for everyone, which makes this tutorial very hard for others to follow.

[@spoongraphics]

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[@alaninzunza.3219]

way too fast my dude

[@giusseppigallardo7245]

this aint the one who made this, this is just a copy with the same image

[@maharage923]

Starset wants to know your location

[@jamapexf6802]

Literally will not got into a ball but ok

[@seanmann8732]

frustratingly fast for a beginner

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

I don't trust ENVATO....had a bad experience paying for things I ddn't get.....

[@tuankhoipham3740]

This is completely fake because the simple thing is that the image created by a spherical lens will be inverted

[@gasgaslex_photos]

I have tried to follow this over and over, I find the accent too indistinct, ( sounds Newcastle?, annoying accent), the movements of the mouse too fast so after some time I've given up in a huff. try enunciating not mumbling, show each step, each mouse movement, give the audience time to digest each step before jumping to the next step.

[@ShannieJennings]

LOL I didn't even know he was speaking because I had my computer on mute. This is a very straight forward tutorial. I didn't find that he rushed the tutorial. If you are giving up in a huff, the problem might be that you are not really familiar with Photoshop?