Sphere Reflection?

I'm new here/to PS (started playing around with it a couple weeks ago) and I'm trying to make a marble ball that looks wet, thus a reflection. I can pretty much get the ball (albeit not extremely realistic) and some what of a reflection idea going on after looking at some reflection tuts, but the reflection just doesn't seem to wrap right or something, it just seems...unnatural . Any specifics on how to wrap a rectangular image reflection on my newbie marble ball?

(I hope this is on the right board...? wasn't sure if it was advanced or basic...apologies if I'm in the wrong place/confusing people...)

Showing us your art would us to see what you really want to do.. There are tons of marble effect and light effect and wet effect as well..

-yaN

Ya, I realised that a bit after I posted, so I've been looking for a site to host my stuff. I found the forum, or one of the forums, that talked about it, and went to one of the sites and signed up, but am yet to receive my confirmation e-mail... t35.com was the hosting site I tried/am trying. I'll put up what I have once I get the confirmation e-mail thingy, or I'll try another site if I don't get it soon, unless anyone has another suggestion for me to do...

Thanks for paying attention to me in any case .

Alrighty, I know it probably doesn't look much like marble, or wet, or reflective, but this is what I've got... here it's different from before, I tried doing stuff with it, I don't think I actually got the reflective idea down, the tuts that I've seen have only been the "make a copy and flip verticle" idea, so it doesn't work so much here, it basically just looks like what I did to it, put a picture behind sphere and played with opacity...Any help on making it more like...a shpere, a marble coloring/texture, wet, and/or reflective would be much appreciated.

Any help, ideas, anything? :D

You can take a look here: http://www.thewebmachine.com/photoshop/pearls/pearls.html I m too lazy to explain, so i found you a kool link.

later

Actually, that link does not go to the right place. Just go in the photoshop category and find the pearl tutorial.

later

Originally posted by yan
You can take a look here: http://www.thewebmachine.com/photoshop/pearls/pearls.html I m too lazy to explain, so i found you a kool link.

later

Thanks for the link, I'll try it out/play around with it to see if I can make my wet/marble/reflective ball to look more wet/marble/reflective :p .

bright hilights make things look wet and you can play around with the render > 3d transform filter. or just the spherize filter...

Anyone happen to know how to achieve a better "marble" texture than the one I have (marble as in the stone not the round things you play with...)? Thanks for help .