How To Create a 3D Sphere with Text

1. Open a new document and create a size of 300 x 300. Choose a background color. I selected a light violet  background which was E4BEE4.
2. Create a new layer by going to the Layer menu command and selecting new layer.
   Call the new layer main circle.
3. Select the Ellipitical Marquee Tool to draw your maincircle on the new layer.
4. Select the Gradient Tool. Choose a gradient. In this case, I selected another gradient called “Simple “and selected a plum or purple gradient. Make sure you the Gradient is set to Radial blend.
5. Fill your Gradient in the circle with the color and the blend.
6. Go to the Select menu and choose Deselect.
7. Create a new layer and called it ovaltop. Choose the Ellipitical Marquee Tool and make a circle towards the top of the circle.
8. Select your paint bucket and choose a color. Choose a color that is complimentary(I selected a yellow color)such as F9F60A. Use this to fill in the small circle at the top.

* It might be a great idea to make adjustments while you are on the layer in case your oval top is off a little to move it where needed.

9. Go to Select menu command and Choose Deselect.
10. Additions can be added to the ovaltop layer by using the blending options(Select Layer menu command, select Layer Style, and from layer style choose Blending Options). It is your decision to include Drop shawdow or inner glow as blending options.

* As you noticed, I have added some other layers to include text and use a brush to include a flower on my sphere.*

How To Use Spell Checking

Okay I admit this, I did not think about spell checking my text in Photoshop like I do when I working with MS Office Suite. However, in order to make sure you text is correct as we include them as part of our images, we can check our spelling.

In order to check spelling, go to the Edit menu command and select Spelling. It will go about as if you are working in MS Office. The spell checker can check your spelling and offer you suggestions, check all layers if you have the box checkmarked and of course you can include words in the dictionary that are not there. Even though we work with images, we also want to check our spelling.

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How To Deselect The Magic Wand Tool

When using the Magic Wand Tool on your images, it continues to leave the selected area on. In order to have it deselected, just select the Ctrl + H for Windows users and Command + H for Macintosh users.

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How to Create a Custom Tool Preset

If you use bubbles as your background when you are working with Photoshop; creating and customizing your own tool preset is an excellent way of improving efficiency and remembering some of your favorite settings. How do you create your own tool preset?

Here are the following steps:

1. Select a tool (for example, the Paint Bucket Tool).
2. Use the Options bar to select what you want as part of your custom tool. Examples include using the Fill (choosing foreground or pattern), mode, opacity, or even tolerance.
3. Select Window menu command and choose Tool Presets.
4. Once the Tool Preset appears, then at the bottom, you will see to the left “Current Tool Only” either checked or unchecked. To the right of it, you will see a little small paper like square that is called “Create new tool preset”. Click on it.
5. A small dialog box will appear for you to name your custom tool preset. Name it and click okay.
6. Your custom tool preset appears in the “Tool Presets” list whenever you want to reuse that tool again.

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How to Use Free Transform to resize an image

When I am working with an image in Photoshop, the size of my image is too large or too small. In Photoshop, there is a way to adjust your image. You can adjust your image by using the Free Transform function.

*Note: Make sure that you are using .psd format. Saving the image as another format (.gif, .tiff, .jpg) does not work.

Let’s take a look at the following steps of how this done.

1. Select the area you want to make an adjustment to.
2. Go to Edit Menu and select Free Transform or use Ctrl + T for Windows, Command T for Macintosh to see the Free Transform function.
3. On the toolbar above, you will see some measurements that show you the value in width and height and in pixels.
4. Type in the measurement you want to use to adjust your image and press enter to see the changes.

*Note: As a suggestion, you might want to follow up by using the pixels to also adjust your images on the document/file that you are using.