Create an eightball in CS2

- Open up a new file of 512x512px (it's always better to start of bigger than the size you're actually going for)

- Select the Ellips Tool and create a circle with a fixed size of 300x300px (make sure your foreground color is set to black)

- Click once in your file and you'll see the black circle appear. Now center it with the move tool.

- Go to your layer window and right-click on the shape layer. Select 'Rasterize Layer'

- Select the Ellips Tool again and create a circle with a fixed size of 165x165px. Make sure your foreground is set to white and click once in your file

- Rasterize thez layer as you did with the big black circle and possition it as shown below:



- Create a new layer and name it 'top-light'

- With the Elliptical Marquee Tool draw out a circle as shown in the next screenshot:



- Select the Gradient Tool with a 'White to Transparent' style and draw a straight line from the top of the ellips to the bottom of it.

- This is what it should look like by:



- Create a new layer and name it 'bottom-light'

- With the Elliptical Marquee Tool, draw out a circle as shown in the screenshot:



- Select the black circle layer and click with the Magic Wand,while holding down Alt, on the white background inside the selection

- Go back to the 'bottom-light' layer (make sure your foreground color is set to white) and Select the Gradient Tool with a 'White to Transparent' style and draw a straight line from the bottom of the selection to the top of it.



- Go to Filter > Blur and select a Gaussian Blur of 26pixels

- This is what it should look like:



-Select the Text tool with a Georgia Font of 160pt and black as the Foreground Color.

- Press '8' on your keyboard and center the number inside the white circle.

- Also move the layer right underneath the 'top-light' layer.

- With the '8'layer still selected, go to Edit > Transform > Warp > and apply an 'Inflate' warp with a bend of 25%

- Next, select the Text tool with the 'Chiller' font (size: 160pt) and #f9b30b as the foreground color

- Type in 'eightball' (or whatever you want to type)

- Go to Layer > Layer Style and change the following settings:



Color used for the gradient is #ff0000



- After placing the text to an appropriate place, cropping and resizing, this is what the final result should look like: