How to Create Spherical Balls in Gimp

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Open a new image in gimp

   But its still not a sphere to make it more realistic we need to add a shadow to it ,create a new layer and move it beneath your sphere layer,using the ellipse select tool create a circle beneath your sphere,fill it with black color,lower the opacity to 50%,and apply a Gaussian blur of 10 px and merge your layers,"add a white background beneath the sphere so that you can see the shadow".
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   Step 2: fill it with some desired color\pattern of your choice.Make sure that the width and height of your image are equal.if not please do so

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   Step 3: now you can put some text to it if you desire.

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   Step 4: Go to filters->map->map object

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   Step 5: make sure you have all the options selected as shown in my image

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   Step 6: you can play with the light

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   Step 7: material and orientation options if you desire.

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