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Subject: How to: create a simple planet for a 'universal' background

The Engineer opened this issue on Oct 11, 2000 · 5 posts
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The Engineer ( ) posted Wed, 11 October 2000 at 7:48 AM · edited Fri, 27 December 2024 at 8:22 AM

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Create an earth-like planet in five steps (works for other kinds of planets too). 1. Create a new document in Photoshop en create a new layer in it. In this new layer set the Marquee to draw circular and select a circle of the preferred size. Fill the circle with white. Now check the "preserve transparency" checkbox in the layer overview. Use FILTER | TEXTURE | GRAIN on the circle, set both option to maximum (picture 1). 2. Use a motion blur on the grained circle (FILTER | BLUR | MOTION BLUR). Do not overdue the size of the blur, we don't want straight lines. Now set the CONTRAST pretty high to get distinguishable colors. (picture 2) 3. Use IMAGE | ADJUST | HUE/SATURATION to give the circle an earth-like blue color as in picture 3. 4. Go to FILTER | ARTISTIC | PLASTIC WRAP -> set the detail to at least 13 and the smoothness to 2 or 3 to create this atmospheric effect. (picture 4) 5. Use RENDER | LIGHTNING EFFECTS to finish it, for best results use an Omni light set to negative. A nice extra is the external glow I added (under LAYER | EFFECTS)...this is it! Hope you find this mini-tutorial useful :) Happy drawing. The Engineer.

Spanfarkle ( ) posted Wed, 11 October 2000 at 11:20 AM

Very nice! Thanks!

GeorgeD ( ) posted Wed, 11 October 2000 at 12:59 PM

Excellent job!

The Engineer ( ) posted Thu, 12 October 2000 at 3:25 AM

Thanks people, I am glad I didn't write it for nothing :) The Engineer.

dethblud ( ) posted Thu, 12 October 2000 at 11:39 AM

Nifty tutorial! Very useful!

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