Posted on March 11th, 2008
Written by John and filed into the Basics, Brushes, Design, Web Graphics, Special Effects, Effects category.

This looks pretty neat just from using blend options but I think it could use more.

The Next thing I will do is use the elliptical marquee tool to draw a series of ovals above the main layer to give it the glassy look.

So start a new layer and by using the elliptical marquee tool draw something similar to this:

We are going to fill this with a radial gradient as well except choose these colors:

Now fill that with the gradient to look similar to this:

Now set the layer blending mode to linear dodge or to any other that you like and set the opacity at 90%:

The result should look like this:

Now make a new layer and draw another circle and choose these colors for the gradient fill:

Fill the circle similar to this:

On this one just set the opacity to 27%.

My result:

I am going to add a few effects using some special effects brushes and scattering options through my brush pallette. I am not going to go over this, but if anyone would like me to let me know and I will add on to this tutorial or do another one.

My Final Result:

You could make smaller versions of this method and use it as buttons for a website, logos, welcome page, or many other things.

Thanks for reading my tutorial!

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