How to make 3D Yin Yang Ball in Photoshop - Step by Step Screenshot Tutorial

1. Create new file and set background to BLACK

2. Create new Layer
3.Grab you Elliptical Marquee Tool

4. Hold Shift key and Drag to create smooth circle.

5. Fill it with Solid color white.

It should look like this.

And name Layer to "Circle".

6. Apply Layer Style >> Inner Shadow.

7. Grab your Pen Tool and it should be set to Path (not Shape).

And start make like shown below:

Right click with your Pen Tool "ON" to make Selection and set its Feather Radius to 0px.

It should look like this:

8. Now Fill it with Solid Black.

It should look like this:

9. Create Selection  as shown below >> Ctrl + Shift + I to Inverse Selection.

Fill the Inverted Selection with Black using Paint Bucket Tool (shown below).

Hide/Disable Background to preview:

It should look like this.

Rename Layer to "Black_Overlay".

10. Apply Gradient Style

It should look like this:

We're almost done! ^_^

10. Add newLayer and name it to "DOT".

>>Grab you Elliptical Marquee Tool again to create two small circles (be sure they are of the same size) and fill it with respective colors as shown below:

11. Grab again you Elliptical Tool create Circle as show below and fill it with Gradient (look at Gradient setting below).

12. Rename Gradient Fill Layer to "Overlay"
Set its Opacity to 51%.

It should look like this:

13. Select these Layers and Merge (Ctrl + E).

>>After Merged:

14. Unhide/Enable Background >> Apply Layer Style >> Outer Glow (with this settings).

You can choose any color you want...

15. And here's our Final Result.
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