In this photoshop tutorials, 9tut team would like to create bubbles, which you will see in undersea cartoon such as Shark Tale or Finding Nemo. It looks simple but not really easy to have a good result, but we will try to come up with step-by-step as usual
1) Create a new file as following:

2) Paint the whole background with black by using Paint Bucket Tool.

3) Create new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N). Choose Elliptical Marquee Tool to draw a circle selection.
4) Choose Edit/Stroke to color the Stroke as following:

5) Choose Select/Save Selection to save your selection

6) Choose Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur, adjust the parameter accordingly to your selection area.

7) Create a new layer as the previous guide; as following

8) Choose layer 1, resize the blur area as following

9) Select circle brush [hardess 0% ,Opacity 50%], then create new layer, and draw as following:

10) Choose Select/Load Section to load your previous selection as in Step 5.

11) On the layer which includes 2 bright dots. Select Filter/Distort/Pinch as following

12) Create a new layer, do the same as step 4, but using white color and double stroke size instead.

13) Use Eraser Tool with soft Brush ( hardness 0%) erase all the outside, leaving part of the circle as following, and reduce the opacity to 50%.

14) Create new layer, use the same brush setting as above, draw 2 dots as following

15) Select the Bubble, then choose Edit/Copy Merged. And paste into a New layer 
16) Choose Image/Adjustments/Invert to invert the have-just-pasted layer

17) Choose Edit / Define Brush Preset to create new brush

18) Create a new layer with Black Background, as step 1 and 2. Choose Brush Tool, and press F5, with following setting:



19) Brush size should be 50px in White color


20) Let’s see how we apply that brush onto other photo

Great! :o)
great, like photoshop top secret tutorials..
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This is a great approach. I am using it for a Powerpoint presentation slide that is headed to NYC for a meeting with Sony BMG on Thursday. I cropped and spherized some of their artists’ faces and blended them into the bubbles.
One key issue that I had to troubleshoot working through your tutorial:
I feel like you may have dropped a step or two of deleting unneeded background layers between 16 and 17. According to your screen shots and my project file, the background of the inverted, merged layer still has a surrounding white square that was captured during the merge copy because the black background still existed. That carries over into the brush and created an undesirable square stroke.
I fixed this by deleting the black background layer and merge copying only the bubble layers over the transparent background.
Sound right? Worked for me…
Thanks again.
-kelson
Wow, you are working with Sony BMG. It sounds great, I wish that I have a chance to work with such a corporation. If you need more help, just let me know dangtruong at gmail dot com
This is better than i imagine, this is one of my first tutotual guiding
On step 7 what does create new layer “as previous guide: mean?
wow, it’s great !
this didn’t turn out at all for me and i did all the steps correctly :-(
Thanks so much for such a great and easy way to make these and they still look real. :)
Pretty Cute :}
Thanks for tut !!
It really help me alot