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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 665304; 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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Beautiful
They're look photographs
Thanks for this tutorial
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when you said duplicate the layers twice and make them black what did you mean, cause after i do the next couple of steps i end up with the glow around the border of the black square -/
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I meant duplicate the shape layer (the circle), not the background.
If that's not helpful, try to upload what you have to scraps and show me. I might be able to help you out better if I see where you're at
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thanks and I love your avatar!!!
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Really cool, I used it a long time ago.[link] but I change some things because I was trying new tools.
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Its not letting me use the 'Clone Tool', it comes up saying I need to define a source point.
Can you give me any help?
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To define the source point means that you need to tell the program what you want to clone. To do this, hold down the ALT key and then click on a section that you want to clone. Then, release the ALT key and start cloning away
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If you could help once more;
When I try to fill the circle it simply won't work.
Anything you can suggest?
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Well (iMac Photoshop CS3)
Image > Fill > changing the option to ' Foreground colour' and then I get stuck, i can't select my texture (all of it) and then it simply wont let me fill the circle.
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Click where it says "foreground" on the top left and choose "pattern." It should be a dropdown menu.
Also, make sure you have the paint bucket too selected and not the gradient tool (which is the alternate to the bucket). To fill it, just click!
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It worker, as ever, thank you loads
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Hum, do you think this will work in Photoshop Elements 5? I am trying it soon, but just wanted to know if you knew. Will post a picture if I can get it to work though!
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It won't work. You don't have some of the options
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Rats. Ah, well, I can try some parts then, and work around the other bits to my best ability 
Oh yeah, when I get a planet done, I'll be sure to send you a link ^^
Thanks again~
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I always appreciate the links of planets that my tutorial helped build
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Yeah, my dad just got PSE 6, so I'm gonna try it w/ that, maybe better, either way, sure to be fun 
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Hello Dinyctis.I just joined today for the simple reason I was stuck on this tutorial.I did my best to look back thru the posts but could not find the solution.I have never posted for photoshop help before this and am doing so now only because you have managed to answer , gotta be a thousand posts and the chances of u responding to mine would be pretty good, .Ya i was looking back to holy shit 2003.You have a lot of followers people who love u. Your like jesus famous.Anyway the problem is actually I wont even tell you my problem until u post confirming this tut will work on cs4.Hope to hear from You
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Hey can you make the planet tutorial for 3D Studio Max? I tried 3D in Photoshop CS4 but it has less options (compared to 3dsmax), still it's effective. But I really wanna make cool looking 3D balls
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Try to give this one a shot: [link]
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Yea, let me know if it works
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Rocking tut man. Quick question: I don't understand the whole copy/paste section on how to remove the shadow...can you clarify?
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The key to removing the shadow is to have the base layer selected (dotted line going around the shape) and then invert it so that you can erase/delete whatever is outside of that shape.
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ok I figured it out, i had to have the little dancing ants around the base layer when i selected both base and shadow and copy and pasted it. GOT IT!! I just applied my texture and this is so bad ass and is going to look awesome on my project.
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Dancing ants! That's great!
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The one thing i couldn't get to work for me was removing the excess shadow that was unneeded. I did exactly what the tutorial said but for some reason it wasn't working for me.
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I do not understand how to remove excess shadow?, What is the difference between a selected and active? layer
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What I mean by "active" is that it's got to be the layer that you're currently working on (highlighted in the layers palette),
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This was a very useful tutorial.
I used it to create part of [link]
Thank you very much for making this.
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This is the best planet tutorial Ive seen.Easy to follow and the outcome is always great and realistic.Thanks Dinyctis
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I'm glad that you found it useful
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Heroic, thank you! Was able to complete this as a beginner ( after much frustration due to my inability to find a good 'cloudy' texture, so I settled to no clouds... oh well ) with little problems.
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I'm glad you found it of use!
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This tutorial is just awesome - gonna give it a go and let you know how it turns out!
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Well that tutorial isn't for me. I have frustrated at coloring that 3 layers >.<
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