Simple Planet Tutorial (PS)

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Simple Planet Tutorial (PS)
Topic Started: May 9 2008, 11:19 PM (406 Views)
Bunny	May 9 2008, 11:19 PM Post #1
A Godless life seems sweeter Posts: 1,863 Group: Members Member #17 Joined: May 4, 2008 Religious Views Atheist Gender Undisclosed Political View Rt Wing. Less Govt is Better!	Have you ever seen some of those awesome wallpapers with planets in them, and wonder where the hell they got them from? well here's a way to make a spectacular looking planet perfect for a wallpaper or sig. This was done in Photoshop elements 4, so it should be able to be done in higher versions. Okay, I can't upload screenshots, because my dad will kill me (he hates it when I upload large images) I might see if I can get them up some other time. for now, I just have the finished result. so I'll try to explain it my best... 1. Take a picture, or get a picture of a rock, or something that would look like it had clouds and a surface on it. Experiment with lots of different things. for me, a rock with moss on it works best. 2. open up the picture in photoshop, and cut out as much of the rock as possible. then paste it onto a new document (about 4000x4000) and use the clone stamp to fill the entire canvas with your texture. 3. press ctrl+a, then define the selection as a pattern. 4. Make another new document, also 4000x4000, and fill the background with black. make a new layer, then make a very big circle (set the selection tool to fixed aspect ratio). Switch the setting on the paint bucket to fill with pattern and fill the circle with your texture. LEAVE THE CIRCLE SELECTED! 5. Use the spherise filter twice, both times on +100 6. Make a new document, 2000x2000px. Again, fill the background with black 7. Make a big circle in the middle again, but leave about 75px space around the edges. On a new layer, fill this with the colour you want your planet to be. Then make a new layer above it and fill it with the same colour. call the bottom one "base" and the top "atmosphere" 8. I hope you left the spherized texture selected. because now you need to copy it. copy it, then past it onto the 4000x4000 in a new layer between the base and atmosphere. resize it so that it fits EXACTLY inside the atmosphere. 9. Put an inner glow on the atmosphere, and increase the size to 250px. then fiddle around with the opacity on the atmosphere, until you can see the texture but can also see the colour of the atmosphere. 10. Make a large circle near the bottom left of the planet. the circle should be about half the size of the planet, and should cover about a third of it. Make a new layer ontop of everything. 11. Feather the selection to 250px, then fill with black until it looks good. 12. Go back to the base layer, use the magic want to select everything OUTSIDE the base, then go back to the layer with the black on it. press delete. 13. Make a new layer at the bottom of the stack (still above the plain black layer though) and inverse the selection. feather it to 50px, then fill it with white. If the glow is cut off by the canvas on the edges, do it later when you use your planet 14. Your planet it done! it should look something like this:



Vanderbilt	May 11 2008, 08:50 PM Post #2
Posts: 2,188 Group: Moderators Member #15 Joined: May 3, 2008 Religious Views Christian Gender Male Political View Love	Woww... That is brilliant! I am definitely trying that, I have elements as well



Bunny	May 12 2008, 03:54 AM Post #3
A Godless life seems sweeter Posts: 1,863 Group: Members Member #17 Joined: May 4, 2008 Religious Views Atheist Gender Undisclosed Political View Rt Wing. Less Govt is Better!	Us elements users must show CS users what we're made of!



Vanderbilt	May 12 2008, 05:23 AM Post #4
Posts: 2,188 Group: Moderators Member #15 Joined: May 3, 2008 Religious Views Christian Gender Male Political View Love	I haven't had elements long enough to get the hang of it yet, but I shall soon!



Chris	May 12 2008, 06:39 PM Post #5
Posts: 115 Group: Members Member #30 Joined: May 11, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Atheist	Great outcome!



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