Anyone know how to do this. I tried using half tone patterns but I just cannot get the dimples right. Any help, insight or link to a tutorial is greatly appreciated.
BTW in either Ill 10 or CS is fine.
BTW Merry XMAS to ya’ll
You could use inverted gradients… might work
say you create a round circle. use a radial gradient, make a copy of the circle decrease the size of the circle, rotate it 180 degress, so the gradient makes the object look indented. then place them in a row and colomn , grid style, and use the larger cricle (the ball outline) as a compound path.
Let me give it a go… try it as well, tell me if it works.
Merry christmas as well dude 
a very cheap way to do it, dont know , dosent look that good either, but anyway , have a look and see if you can work with it. or get some ideas from it.
.soulty
Merry Christmas to you too DDD. Ok use the revolve effect i think its called opens AI yeah revolve. And then make the circle then add the little dots with a map full of them. Thats what i would do and you got the shading of a 3d gold ball 
