Tutorial: How to make a Disco Ball in Photoshop

In this tutorial I would like to show how to make a nice bright, fun and shiny disco ball. Here is what the final result with be.

The effect on the disco ball was created by http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/digital-star-effect and this is an amazing tutorial on how to get the effect of a Digital Star Effect. I will do this effect and show you how to use it in a shape and change the tones to get your desired effect. 

This could also be used for concert lights or a nightclub poster, serious props to http://photoshoptutorials.ws/ for coming up with this effect.

Lets get started...

Step one: 

Choose an image, any picture that has a bit of detail and a few colours in it will work. * I an using an image of me and friend on halloween because I like it *

Step two: 

Open this image in Photoshop, duplicate the layer and make guidelines like the image below for disco ball shape.

Step three: 

Select the path tool and start to draw your circle as accurate as you can get it.

Step four: 

Press control on your path and copy, then add a new layer and paste it into the new layer. Deselect the image layers.

Now it should look like the image above.

Step five: 

Now you need to add the effect I mentioned above. Click this link and follow the instructions http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/digital-star-effect . When you have done this it should look like the image below. I have adjusted the brightness and contrast here to add effect.

Step six: 

Make a new layer and draw a circle that covers your existing disco ball fill it and add a black stroke at your desired width.

Apologies for the random line across it that is not supposed to be there but I think my pc is acting up. So ignore that but now you can see an outline and glow from the disco ball.

Step seven: 

Go to layer adjustments to change around brightness and contrast and hue and saturation until it looks good to you.

Step eight: 

Now go to your brushes and select assorted brushes and click on the star brush number 50 like below.

Step nine: 

Select the white fill colour and dot your stars on where you think needs a bit of sparkle. Add new layer and fill colour it with black so the disco ball pops out and your stars can be seen.

Here is the final design

I hope this tutorial was helpful to you.