How to Create a Crystal Ball Effect in Affinity Photo
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a crystal ball effect in Affinity Photo. This is a photography effect known as crystal ball or lens ball/glass ball photography. With the crystal ball, you’re able to create refraction photos which means that the background scene you’re shooting will appear within the ball. This happens when the light inside the crystal ball is refracted, and it inverts the image that you see.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:56 Setting up the image
1:32 Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool to make a selection
2:16 Using the Spherical Filter to create a crystal ball shape
2:52 Using the Elliptical Marquee Tool to make a selection
3:51 Adding Inner Glow effect to the crystal ball
4:11 Adding a mask layer to a pixel layer selection
5:02 Using Black & White adjustment to darken colors
5:26 Using the Curves adjustment to darken midtones of an image
5:47 Adding highlights to the crystal ball
8:01 Adding shadows to the crystal ball
8:31 Adding another Inner Glow effect to the crystal ball
9:40 Creating a shadow for the crystal ball gloating above the water
10:24 Using Gaussian Blur to blur a background
10:58 Outro
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