Photoshop Tutorial: Make a Realistic Football from Scratch

This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic football in Photoshop.
Starting off with a blank canvas, we'll be creating a photo-realistic football step by step, and place it on a nice grass background.

Let's get started!

End result:

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Tags:footballrealisticscratchsoccer

Step 1

1.First create a new file Go to file -> New or cntl + N
width = 8 inch
Height = 6 inch
Resolution = 300
Background color = Grey

Step 2

2.Then create new layer Go to Layer -> New -> Layer or use
the short cut Shift+cntl+N. Select Elliptical Marquee tool,
then select fixed size 5inch X 5 inch and draw a round and
filled it with white using paint packet tool or Edit -> Fill.

Step 3

Then Go to Select -> Modify -> Contract -> value 15

Step 4

Now Create new layer then Go to Edit -> Stroke and apply
stroke with the following values.
Width - 30px
Color - Black

Step 5

Now it's a simple method to create the Football's outline.
Select elliptical marquee tool with the
fixed size 3.5 in X 3.5 in and move the round
using the move tool (see the step 5), then delete
this particular area.

Step 6

Do the same like this.

Step 7

Select Polygon tool and draw a polygon in black color.

Step 8

Then Go to Edit - Transform- Free transform and right click the mouse button and select the "distort" and adjust the polygon like this.

Step 9

Then duplicate the polygon and arrange it like this.

Step 10

Create new layer and select brush tool with gray color and the brush size is 12px and the hardness is 100.Now draw the lines(see step 10).It's easy to create straight line.First click the
starting point and hold shift key and click the end
point.

Step 11

Add bevel effect to the lines.simply double click the layer to select blending option or Go to layer -> layer style -> blending option and add this following values,
color overlay - white
Bevel - see the step 11

Step 12

Now create the football's shadow.See the details below.

Step 13

Now merge all layers (hold cntl key
then select the layers then cntl+E to merge) except
background and shadow layer.Then delete the
background layer.

Step 14

This image is my image collection and I used this grass to the football's background.

Step 15

Now select the grass layer and then send it to back to the football layer.(Go to Layer -> Arrange -> send backward)

Step 16

select the football layer and then go to Select -> Load selection -> press ok.

Step 17

Now the ball is in load selection, then apply the gradient to the following values (see the image below).

Step 18

Then adjust the football's color.

Step 19

Select the all black color area in ball's outside using Magic wand tool.

Step 20

It's a final and important step of this tutorial. select all the outside black parts of the ball then go to Filter -> Artistic -> Plastic warp, then apply the following values. (see the step)

Step 21

This is the final image.Hope you all enjoy this tutorial.Take care.

43 Comments:

Akassa says:

I think the top has too much light, but apart that it's excelent

(2 years and 303 days ago)

neverlander says:

excellent indeed

(2 years and 303 days ago)

DigitalDreamer says:

wonderful job

(2 years and 303 days ago)

Siminho90 says:

cool! love football

(2 years and 301 days ago)

danheshe says:

Nice football.
It seems to need a little of 3-d though.

(2 years and 301 days ago)

vampyriccadence says:

This reminds me a little too much of this tutorial: http://adobeperson.com/photoshop-basic-drawings/photoshop-website-template-web-graphics-soccer-ball-logo-in-photoshop

(2 years and 288 days ago)

suresh says:

Hello vampyriccadence,this is my old tutorial, i already posted the tutorial in photoshoptalent.com in February 2008. But the above link was posted on November 2008.

(2 years and 287 days ago)

Guest says:

i love football im a champion at it

(2 years and 276 days ago)

devangel says:

excellent

(2 years and 261 days ago)

Guest says:

Very good intelligent approach and clearly expalibned tutorial. You may also explain what the effects like Plastic Wrap actually do. This woudl enable us to learn the the potential ofvarious tools dn options. Thank yu very much. Keep going - Ranga.

(2 years and 255 days ago)

Guest says:

i want just a football pitch

(2 years and 240 days ago)

Guest says:

That is so realistic

(2 years and 217 days ago)

Guest says:

Te felicito. Es un gran tutorial.

(2 years and 216 days ago)

Guest says:

Nice work

(2 years and 192 days ago)

Guest says:

Nice

(2 years and 179 days ago)

Guest says:

It's Non beleiveable.
Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Much NICE
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Saiful Islam
Rajshahi,Bangladesh

(2 years and 82 days ago)

Guest says:

Its just wow...Nice job...






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(2 years and 58 days ago)

Guest says:

I like this Tutorial. So I add my Disk.

(2 years and 22 days ago)

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I like this Tutorial. So I add my Disk.

(2 years and 22 days ago)

Guest says:

wow

(2 years and 6 days ago)

Guest says:

does anyone have the PSD of this.
If yes please email me. lordship2007@yahoo.com

(1 year and 353 days ago)

Guest says:

Pillow emboss with down direction for stitch lines can work more better. anyway the work is very good.,

(1 year and 349 days ago)

Guest says:

amezing tutorial .

(1 year and 343 days ago)

Guest says:

amezing tutorial .

(1 year and 343 days ago)

Guest says:

amezing tutorial .

(1 year and 343 days ago)

Guest says:

Really a good tutorial.

(1 year and 334 days ago)

Guest says:

very cool!

(1 year and 326 days ago)

Guest says:

otemo

(1 year and 309 days ago)

sarav says:

very nice tuts

(1 year and 273 days ago)

DIPEN SINGH says:

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(1 year and 244 days ago)

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thanks

(1 year and 239 days ago)

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(1 year and 235 days ago)

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(1 year and 234 days ago)

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(1 year and 234 days ago)

Guest says:

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(1 year and 229 days ago)

nomankhanbhopali says:

good i like it

(1 year and 135 days ago)

Hikmatullah says:

It was a Really Good Tutorial, I Like it So much

(1 year and 79 days ago)

Guest says:

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(333 days ago)

Tomiwa Cox Ogunnusi says:

I really enjoyed your tutorial. please keep doing these for us. i will am so creative like you. just finished. Nice one

(291 days ago)

Guest says:

It's Awesome

(276 days ago)

Amanda says:

Thanks

That's much better than my flat football which I thought was just hexagons!

I needed a template for a craft project.

(243 days ago)

Achintya Kumar Mondal says:

It is very help full tutorial

(197 days ago)

Guest says:

Yes it's a frame with glass in it I just took out the aalepbht house "art" and put some fabric and embellishments behind the glass instead.

(90 days ago)

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