Hey people, Here's something I've been messing with. It's just a simple landscape with the black mask atmosphere, and the stars added later in Photoshop. It looks like it's not... "together" enough for me. What do you think? I might try using a large plane with the stars on that rather than the post work, see how that looks. See ya!

hmmm.... that's pretty neat :) but the stars do look kinda 'fake.' i think they are too big. it looks like a closeup photo from a telescope, rather than stars as you would see them with the eye. you might try photoshop's minimum filter (it's under other). that might help a bit.

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I agree with bloodsong...the stars look too close and too big. Ta ta, Laurie

This is nice but I agree about the stars (although they are cool on their own, kinda old-timey sci-fi lookin). The moon surface is kinda gloomy in this picture, I think it should be more contrasty/bright/dark because there's no actual gloom up there. There's a great little shareware program I use for generating stars and such called universe, it's at http://www.diardsoftware.com/ Vue has a built in starfield atmosphere BTW that's the most HORRIBLE thing I've ever seen, the stars turn out as big SQUARES! I spent about an hour airbrushing them out of a nine-hour render and replacing them with a starfield done in universe. So don't go that route! :)