Glass Globe
1. Open your image of the Teton lake. Clikc Image=> Image size and reduce
it to 360 wide by 318 high. Duplicate this background image.
2.
On the background copy, Click edit=> Transform=> Flip Vertical. Then Click
Edit=> Transform=> Flip horizontal.
3. Click Filter=>render=> Lens Flare. Select 175 % and 50-300 mm zoom set
in the upper right quadrant.
4.
Click Filter=> Blur=> Gaussian Blur. Set the blur to 4.0%. Click
Filter=>Distort=>Spherize. Set to 100 %
5. Using your elliptical marquee tool, select the oval by clicking in the
upper left corner and dragging the marquee tool down to the lower right
corner. Click Select => Inverse. Hit your backspace key. Click Select =>
Deselect.
6. Select your move tool with bounding boxes showing. Scale the image so
that the width is 25 % and the height is 30 %.

7.
Click Image=> Adjustments=> Hue/Saturation
- hue= +10
- saturation = +30
- Lightness = 0
8. Control click the sphere layer and add a layer mask.
9. Click back on the background layer. Open the image of the hand. Use
your move tool to drag it to your new image and drop.
10. Use your magic wand tool set to 60% tolerance to select the blue area
around the hand. Click Select=>Modify=>Expand and set it to 6 pixels. Hit
your backspace key.
11. Click image=> adjust=> Hue saturation. Leave Hue at 0, Set the
saturation down to -30 and the lightness down to -20. Use your move
tool to set the hand in the lower left so that the arm is butted up to the
edge of the canvas.
12. Move your sphere down to overlap the hand and cover a few finger
tips. Click on your mask on this layer and using a black foreground color,
paint the fingertips on the mask of the sphere.
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