I recently got into the game of golf and I thought to myself, boy, wouldn’t it be cool to design a golf ball in Photoshop. Well, after trial and error, I finally came up with a good tutorial on how to design it. This tutorial does have a few tricky parts, but with the time, you can also design your very own golf ball in Photoshop.

Step One

The first thing you want to do is open up Photoshop, create a new document 500 pixels by 500 pixels.

Step Two

With your Marquee Tool, draw a circle (hold down shift).

Step Three

Fill it with white.

Step Four

Now create a new 500 pixels by 500 pixels document. Click on the custom shape tool (or press U), and choose the hexagon shape.

In your new document, create a hexagon like so:

Step Five

You now want to create a pattern with that hexagon. Click on the shape’s layer, and drag it over to the new layer icon.

Step Six

Move the new layer down and over and continue this process:
You may right click this image and save it if you wish.

After that is finished, you want to merge all the layers into one single layer. Do this by selecting all of the layers, right clicking on them, and then clicking on Rasterize.
If you used a lot of layers like I did, it will take come time depending on your computers hardware. However, once that is complete, highlight all of the layers one more time, right click them, then click on merge layers. This will make all of the layers into one.

Once you finish that, make a selection of the tiles and hit control c. Go back to the other document where your white circle was and his control v to paste it.

Step Seven

On the layer with the pattern, go to Filter > Distort > Spherize.

Press OK.

Step Eight

With your Marquee Tool, make a selection of the circle like so:

Hit Control C, then Control V.

Step Nine

Hit control T to transform the circle. Make it the same size as your white circle now.

Step Ten

On the layer of the white circle, add these blending options.

Step Eleven

On the layer with the pattern, click lock transparent pixels. Now, take your paint bucket with a white foreground, and fill the pattern area.

Step Twelve

Double click on the pattern layer, and add this blending option.

Click OK.

Step Thirteen

On the layer with the pattern - Change the fill opacity to 0%.

You will now have your finished golf ball!

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