Here I Made a Tutorial Saying How To Make a Crystal Ball with GIMP
This is The Easiest , Simplest Way.
Tutorial : Crystal Ball
Program Gimp
Author : Sliker
Let's Start
First Create a New Image :
420 Width
300 Height
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Change The Forground Color to 980000
and Background color to ff0000
Then Choose The Eclipse Tool and Draw Something Similar To This
Then Open The Gradient Tool and Drag from the top to the bottom
of the circle
You Should Get Something Like this :
Then Change The Foreground and Background Colors To White.
Select The Eclipse Tool and Draw a Circle Exactly like this :
Now Here is The Crystal Touch Follow Carefully :
Open Gradient Tool in the bottom of the gimp window you'll
find an opacity bar , lower it to around 20.
then draw a gredient from
the top of the 1st circle to the bottom
of the 1st circle.The Final Result :
We are Done.