Open new canvas: 500 x 500, rgb,
72 pixels, transparent background. Fill this layer with a color of
your choice. Create a new layer called 'bubble'. Go to Edit/Fill and
from the drop down menu choose 50% Gray.
Step 2
Go to
Filter/Render/Lens Flare. Set at 100%, 50-300mm zoom.
Make sure flare is about quarter of the way between the centre point and
the top left corner.
Step 3
With the bubble
layer active go to Filter/Distort/Polar Coordinates and set it to 'Polar
to Rectangular'.
Step 4
Go to
Image/Rotate Canvas/Flip Vertical. Go back to Filter/Distort/Polar
Coordinates and select 'Rectangular to Polar'.
Step 5
We want to place
horizontal and vertical guides on our bubble, like this.
Step 6
Draw a selection
around the bubble using the elliptical marquee. Place your cursor at
the very centre of the circle where they two guides meeting, and holding
down the alt+shift keys drag a circle out from the center to the edges of
your image.
Step 7
Hit Ctrl+J to
duplicate the selection onto its own layer. Delete the 'Bubble'
layer and rename the new layer 'Bubbles'.
Step 8
On the new layer
change the layer mode to hard light and voila!
You can play
around with this by duplicating them, scaling etc.
