The orb with special effects

These days I learned some new stuff. I will show today something I liked doing, I call it “the orb with special effects” :)

Start by making a black background. Then make a new layer. Pick a color to start with. I like blue so i chose a dark blue to start with.

We’ll go all way to a brightest color(in my case the brightest blue), so pick for start a dark color.
I have “only web colors” on because i have less color to work with for this project, so it's a little bit easier this way.

Now select a soft brush (turn the hardness to 0) and just click once.


Change color to a brighter one and again clik once, this time over the one you just painted.





Make the brush a little smaller, change the color to a brighter one and do the same thing again. Repeat the step above twice, without changing the size of the brush. Make this step one more time, choose white as foreground color and a smaller brush. Now you have the orb. A easier way to adjust the size of the brush is by using [ ] keys.









Create a tail using the smudge tool. You’ll find the smudge tool here :


Select it, adjust the master diameter,set the strength to about 85-86%

Put the mouse pointer to the end of the orb and drag. And if you click on the tail again you will make it just a little big longer… and longer :)






First time you do this you might have to do it a few times until you get what you want . You always can come back and undo the mistake(ctrl+z and if you want to undo more ctrl+alt+z). Make a smaller brush and make forms, start from the middle of the orb to highlight the tail. Make little wings coming off.



And now i'll make bubbles

Make a separate layer, above the orb layer.

Now, select the bubbles brush from the brush tool. Pick a color and start paint over the shape you created earlier. You can lower the opacity of the bubbles layer if you consider it’s look better.




That’s it ! Have fun !