Photoshop Tutorial: Make a Realistic Football from Scratch

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Tutorial goal:
This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic football in Photoshop from scratch.


End result:
Make a Realistic Football from Scratch Final Image

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author:
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suresh

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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.




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

(101 days ago)
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excellent indeed

(101 days ago)
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wonderful job

(100 days ago)
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cool! love football

(98 days ago)
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Nice football.
It seems to need a little of 3-d though.

(98 days ago)
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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

(85 days ago)
avatar suresh
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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.

(85 days ago)
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i love football im a champion at it

(73 days ago)
avatar devangel
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excellent

(59 days ago)
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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.

(53 days ago)
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i want just a football pitch

(38 days ago)
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That is so realistic

(15 days ago)
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Te felicito. Es un gran tutorial.

(13 days ago)


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