Download Heaven-Texture Description: Create a New Image 500 to 500 Pixel and make a sweet background of your choice Make a new layer(Name this layer ball). Press M and make a selection by holding down shift using the elliptical marquee tool. Description: Press G and and take the radial gradient tool. Apply the Gradient from the center to the top. Watch the pic on the right. Description: Now open the texture that I made out of my appartment. Press V for the move tool and pull it in your magicball window. After that scale it like you prefere (edit-transform-scale) Description: Now chose your ball-layer. Click on it while holding down CTRL. So you make the round selection of the ball. Description: Go back to your texture-layer. Inverse the selection(select-inverse) and delete it. Now go to filter-distort- and spherice it with about 80. Select-Inverse and delete the stuff we don't want to see. Description: Now the funny part comes. By changing the Blending Modes (Overlay, Color Dodge and so on) you reach awesome results. The last step is pressing CTRL L to edit the Levels of your image Description: Well done, you are ready. Isn't it simple. Be creative! For example copy other elements like on the right in your Image. So you will get nice results. Have fun.