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Step 6

Selecta soft round Brush Tool at a decent size (100px) an paint with black in the layer mask to hide the areas encircled below.

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Step 7

To get rid of the ugly black spot in the middle and to make the ground look right we will repeat the trick from step 2. Let’s make a selection of some ground that looks good on the right side and make press Ctrl + C to make a copy of selected area (before you press Ctrl + C turn off the visibility of the white Background layer an make sure that you have selected the ball layer in the Layer palette). Create a new layer on top of all layers (Layer > New > Layer) and press Ctrl + V to paste it.

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Step 8

Now it is only a matter of placing this layer on the right side and using Free Transform and warp to make it fit. Add a layer mask to this layer (Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All) and using a round soft black brush tool paint over the obvious edges. You should have something like the image below.

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Step 9

It starts to look good but there are still a few elements that need correction. First there are some elements that repeat themselves (like the guy in white or the red cordon). Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer) and use the Clone Stamp tool to remove the indicated spots. There are some additional glitches where the lines in the ground unite but I think the ball it’s looking pretty good as it is so I won’t spend any more time correcting it.

Make sure that you are on the original ball layer and Ctrl-click on it to make a selection. Press Ctrl + Shift + C to Copy Merged (copy all visible pixels, not only the ones on the layer we currently are).

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Step 10

Open the image “Apples” and press Ctrl + V to paste it. Name this layer “Metal Apple”. Make sure you save the image so in case your computer crashes your work will be safe.

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Step 11

Use Free Transform (Ctrl + T) and warp to fit the ball exactly over the middle apple. Don’t worry about the protruding stem (the little stick that connects the apple to the tree).

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Step 12

To make it look more realistic we need some texture from the original apple. Turn off the visibility of the metal ball layer and using the Pen Tool make a selection of the middle apple.

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27 responses to “How to Create a Photo-Realistic Metal Apple in Photoshop”

  1. werqw Avatar
    werqw

    boo boo bam

  2. Sharon Johnston Avatar
    Sharon Johnston

    Hi I couldn’t download the Metallic Ball. I received an” Imagine could not be loaded” message. Is there another way to download this image?

    1. Colton Stibbins Avatar
      Colton Stibbins

      Mrs. Johnston? you probably don’t remember me but I think I am one of your 4th grade students.

  3. Sharon Johnston Avatar
    Sharon Johnston

    I tried to download the metallic ball and was told Image could not be found..

  4. Jair Pereira Ibañez Avatar
    Jair Pereira Ibañez

    I like me!

  5. carl Avatar
    carl

    Enjoyed it!

  6. Lucie Ondrušková Avatar
    Lucie Ondrušková

    Great tutorial, I learned a lot!

  7. Normen Avatar
    Normen

    THX! I did an awsome metallic cherry :)

  8. Maidul Islam Avatar
    Maidul Islam

    Amazing. . Very nice, thanks for sharing…………….

  9. Kenna Avatar
    Kenna

    Nice tutorial. Only think I didn’t like is that you kept forgetting to tell us when to add layer masks…

  10. Habib Avatar
    Habib

    techniques and ideas was great

  11. Victoria Avatar
    Victoria

    The detail in this is amazing

  12. Lidka Avatar
    Lidka

    This is fantastic!

  13. xilan Avatar
    xilan

    forgot to fix the white triangles at the bottom of the apples curve

  14. diego Avatar
    diego

    amazing work!

  15. apple Avatar
    apple

    Great!

  16. apple Avatar
    apple

    Great! I learned from it..

  17. dd Avatar
    dd

    Very nice tutorial..
    khupach chhan explain kelele ahe

  18. shan Avatar
    shan

    fantastic!

  19. Salai Avatar
    Salai

    This is really good thank you sir.

  20. reo Avatar
    reo

    Nice, but the light sides (non-adjacent) of two non-metallic apples was left unfixed thus it didn’t jibe to the light source ‘you’ have indicated.

    1. goodquestion Avatar
      goodquestion

      no

  21. Gogo Avatar
    Gogo

    Exvellent tutorial!!! I like the fact that you are focusing on details!

  22. Lisa Lampe Avatar
    Lisa Lampe

    Impressive tutorial, Adrian!

  23. bijesh Avatar
    bijesh

    Good..!

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      how do you un-desaturate

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