This guide was made for entry: orbs In Contest: marble
Original image
step 1 of 3
removed orb and filled in using vanishing point
step 2 of 3
masked orb, and added a cloud layer with blue color and liner dodge blending
did the same for the smaller orbs (one of them with fiber rendering in addition to clouds)
for one of them add with pen tool the light orbiting bands
added shadow
step 3 of 3
added cloud layer with some masking and overly blanding