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Make a new image - 100
x 100 pixels - transparent background.
Create a new layer. Have white as your foreground- and black as your
background colour.
Create a circle with the Elliptical Marquee Tool (hold down the
shift-key when making the selection to create a perfect circle).
Now select the Radial Gradient Tool, and fill the selection like shown in
fig. 1.
 Figure 1
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Your image should now
look like fig. 2.
 Figure 2
Your sphere is now finished. You
just deselect and add some background colour on the very first layer. Or -
you could spice the whole thing up a bit !
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Want that cool chrome
look on your sphere? Well - it's pretty easy once you learned how :-)
To get the desired effect choose
Image - Adjust - Curves - and insert the values like shown i fig. 3.
Experiment and add the effect you want. (To increase the contrast drag the
second curve a little more down and vice versa...)
 Fig. 3
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Your sphere should now
look like fig, 4.
 Figure 4
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Deselect and add some
backround colour and you have a really cool shiny sphere :-)
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