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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 665303; Favourites: 8977; Downloads: 64882
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Ok, so over the ages, i noticed that if there is one thing that space artists (especially newcomers) struggle with, then it has to be planet textures. Lots of them just cant get their planets to look good, cant find good textures, or simply dont have 3d studio maxSo i decided to throw everyone a bone, and i made a tutorial on how to make a somewhat realistic-looking planet using only photoshop. Be adviced that you need to have some basic photoshop knowledge to follow this, and if not, i suggest you spend 50 dollars on the adobe photoshop book, or read the help files that photoshop came with)
I made a JPEG tutorial because:
1) I'ts annoying when you have to change from photoshop to your browser, and vice-versa. With Jpegs you have everything neat in photoshop
2) I didnt feel like writing HTML
If you have any questions, please dont hesitate to drop me a line.
In addition, here's a tutorial on making rings. I see many rings and tutorials produced with the spiral tool and that's just terrible! Thanks for the effort... but that's just wrong.
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Will do. By the way, love your avvie. Made me lol.
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Oh O love this tut! 
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Glad to have it work for you!
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Thank you for this useful tutorial.
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Hmm, do you know if the shadowing part is possible on Photoshop elements 6.0?
I got all the way up to making the colored circle with the two black, but I cannot find the window that says "layer style" to change the rest.
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Yea, apparently Elements won't let you do stuff like that.
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Thought so -_- elements doesn't have a lot of things.
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I have Gotta Try this one day.
Thanks for the Tip.
Dose it work All Photoshops?
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It won't work on Photoshop Elements.
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Wow...Strieght to the point.
*kicks a can*
Cause that's the one that I have.
So wjich one do I have to get, man.
Dude...That Conan is cracking me up right now.
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No sense beating around the bush
I made the tutorial when photoshop 7 was around, so it'll naturally work with anything after that one.
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Alright. Cool.
So I'll just get that one or later, then.
Thanks for the tip, man.
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Does not work at all - I'm no photoshop newb here either... I follow step 1 EXACTLY, and it just applies the layer styles to the whole layer. How do you apply the layer styles to the selection only???!!! Please someone help me
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In response, it was of course my own stupidity. I as duplicating the whole layer instead of just the circle. Best. Space. Tut. Ever!
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There's no way to apply the effect to only a part of a layer. The layer needs to be of t he specific shape (circle in this case).
Let me know if you have any more issues!
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Yes... I now get that now 
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hey great tutorial! love it loads, but as i was going through it and i got to the bit where you have to add color settings to the "atmosphere" layer and i come to editing the color settings and nothing happens? i've set the layer to screen and added the inner and outer glows? doesn't seem to work ?
any advice?
thanks
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So no effects whatsoever take effect? Try starting a new document and applying random effects to any shape you want (as long as it's smaller than the canvas).
Also.....the layer isn't empty, is it?
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nah no effects at all, its the layer with the blue? cant remember the name of the layer,
But ill try what you've said.
thank you for the hand mate
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Hmm no, the atmosphere effects should be black and should be between the ground (texture) and the shadow.
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i did this and it came out really nice! great tutorial :3
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hay dinyctis this tutorial Rock's
Great work and thank you alot
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I love this tutorial! I'm going to give this a try. Also I love Conan OBrian. Too bad about his show.
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Thank you so much, the way I was doing it was nowhere close to this detailed!!
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You could remove the textures and still end up with a nice background touch, should you not have a use for a detailed planet
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Finally decided to give it a try. [link]
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Hey dinyctis!
So, I finally made a short animation in After Effects with some planets I created, using your tutorial. I thought you might like to see it.
[link]
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Hey thanks so much for this it really help me out alot you should check out my gallery of my first planet I did with the help of your tutorial!
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/worship
I've been meaning to do this tutorial since I found it a year ago.
... Holy crap. Inspiring, to say the least. This will come in mighty handy for Matte Painting.
Here's mine! [link]
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Wonderful tutorial!!
I already have some experience with planets and space arts, but after this my planets will certanly look much better.
Thanks a lot for sharing your great knownledge
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WOW thanks alot for this great tutorial. I had the nice tracks playing while making it. Armageddon theme nad forrest gump theme
Cheers.
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Thank you so much for this tut. O_O
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a very well done tutorial. i created my planets in another way, but your way is also a good one
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God, don't I want your skills so bad right now!
You are super amazing! They are so realistic, and beautiful.
Very helpful tutorial!
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Nice Tut 
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ctrl+clicking the base layer will select the shape of the layer (dotted lines around the actual shape). This is helpful for deleting the excess shadow around the planet (after you inverse the selection, of course).
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thanks a lot, now figured out how to proceed.
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