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Open a new window with WIDTH 300, HEIGHT 200, and transparent
background. Draw a 20x20 pixel white circle on it as as
shown below. Select it with a Rectangular Marquee Tool
and go to Edit > Define Pattern and give a name
like circle or something.
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Make a new layer and fill it with white, delete the one
with the circle we don't need that anymore. Make another
new layer, choose Paint Bucket Tool (G) - Select
your circle pattern and fill the new layer with it.
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Select the layer with the Pattern and choose Blending
Modes > Inner Shadow Select the Opacity 50, Distance
2, and Size 8 as shown below. Click OK.
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By now you should have an Image like this.
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Choose Elliptical Marquee Tool 
and make a round circle in the middle of an image on the
layer with the pattern.
Go to Filters > Distort > Spherize Choose
Amount 80% and click OK. |
Go to Select > Inverse and press delete button
on the keyboard to get rid of the sides.
Now selection still on, create one more layer and go to
Select > Inverse then fill the selection with
white. Deselect it Ctrl + D; What we want to do here is,
to create a white circle to merge it with the pattern
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Dublicate your pattern layer by dragging it to New Layer
icon 
on the layers pallette. Drag the dublicate layer on top
of the white circle layer. Select the white cirlce layer
and link it with the pattern layer dublicate and press
Ctrl + E to merge them, or you can go to Layers >
Merge Linked
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Select your merged layer and go to Blending Options
> Inner Shadow and select the fields as shown below.
Opacity 40, Angle -36, Distance 33, Choke 0, and Size
46.
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Choose Linear Burn for the upper layer and Pin Light for
the lower layer. And set lower layers Opacity to 40%.
That is it you should have your 3D ball now. You can tweak
it some more by adding background and adding shadow...etc.
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