The easiest way to get your sphere out is to take the elliptical marquee tool, and try making it the same zise as your sphere.
If it dasn't fit perfectly, try to center the sphere over the image, right mouse click on it, and then transform selection.
The best way to make a sphere smaller is to use the ...% tab on the top of your window.


[tip: By drawing the circle, try hold the shift key, in that case the sphere will be perfectly round.]

Ok after choosing transform selection then what. This is what I am talking about with most people and tutorials they feel that you have some experience working with the programs. I don't I have no clue what to do next. I tried things but none did what I needed.

Yes.

hope this isn't poaching the thread but as a new skinner as well, using photoshop principally, I'm extremely ignorant about things like dodge/multiply/screen etc which I saw u used in your glass sphere tutorial, simple techniques which produced a fine end product in very few steps...to a photoshop noob it all sounds like ancient Greek. I can follow the steps but don't really understand all the processes and so can't adapt and apply them to other projects...

I ramble, excuse me...basically it's great you take the time to make your tutorials - wp gg etc

hehe, yeah dude - tbh the only one of the layer styles I even vaguely understand is "normal", and I suspect even there I'm deluding myself

I kind of figured you had something to do with the tutorial (Name). I'm like Tiggs none of it makes sense I still don't know why the style is greyed out and I can't use it. So I am no further along with the project. If you could make your tutorials with more explaining the steps keeping in mind that you are doing this for the first time. I understood your tutorial but when I got to the Layer style part it was greyed out and I still don't know why. For what ever reason this commun between you and me got side tracked. I had to format my system I think maybe that Blaster Worm got me. Anyway I will install Adobe again and try the tutorial again. Maybe we can talk via email or something like that so as not to keep getting side tracked.

I have it but I haven't gotten around to re-installing Adobe. I will get to it this weekend and let you know. Thanks.

I do need to put some more tutorials online yeah, I think I will put some up tonight, or tomorow. (Damn clients keep whining me on the head )

the details on images that you see are mostly not done with gradients, but I will write a tutorail about them.

(most 'light effects' on a skin for example are done with feathering things)

Well now this beats all.I posted a question that I need help in and this section ends up with other NOOB's asking for more tutorials > and my 2 questions are still not answered. >. So what's the use of posting here anyway? Yes I'm pissed because I thought I could get help here but only got lost in the bull. > .

Your psd file looks great but it never (and you) answered my questions. Even in our emails Styl my questions were never answered. I still don't know why the things are happening. So I quit working on it.

Sometimes we need to look at our selfs to see the problems so that the answers are more clear. This post is dead. I am sorry that nothing happened here.