This tutorial was derived from Toby's Paint Shop Pro 9 Easy Glass Orb tutorial. It was made using Macromedia Fireworks 8, and shows the steps needed to create a glass orb.

Create a new document 235 x 235 with a resolution of 72. Once loaded, select the ellipse tool under "vector" Press shift on the top left corner, and drag it to bottom right corner to create a circle that is the full size of the canvas.

Using the menu next to the color, click "solid", then find gradient in the slide up menu, and click linear. In the color menu box, pick 2 colors. Make the first one black, and the second one #666666. Then find the paint bucket tool under "colors" and drag on the circle from the top to its bottom, so that the top will be black and the bottom will be grey.

Select the ellipse tool again, and make an oval near the top of the big circle. Make the circle a solid fill of #666666. On the edge selection, under the fill color, select feather, and select the feather option, and slide the slider to 30. Then, using either the pen tool or the vector path tool, draw a curved line. Then go to the modify menu > alter path > expand stroke... and select the end caps that are round and a width of 6. Click on the line, and remove the outer edge color, and select a linear gradient. Make a white and #666666 fill. Using the fill tool (the paint bucket) make the white on top, and the grey on the bottom.

Select the fill again, and on the white fill select the triangle above the color that’s black, and click it. Slide the slider to 0. Click outside the canvas, and then re-click the line, and apply a filter of blur > Gaussian... and slide the radius to 15. And then you can produce this:

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