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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 665313; 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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Comments: 1571
A planet tutorial, fantastic! Thanks much, this is awesome.
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Nice! I was looking for something this thorough, and easy to follow, a while ago. Can't wait to try it out sometime! Thanks for being awesome!
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eheh very nice. it was a bit hard to do it but this is my result [link] thankyou
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I saw this in the DD's and clicked on it. Lo and behold, a space art tutorial! I was looking for one of these before, so it came at the right time. Thank you!
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Found this by chance and actually needed it. Thanks for thinking of the little people. I'll definitely make use of this.
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really damn good tutorial.
i havent actually tried it out but i can see how this works. its surprising how good your results are!
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This is amazing and so helpful~ A well deserved DD!
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You have fulfilled one of my geekiest photoshop desires! Thanks for the great tutorial! Who needs the hands-off feel of some 3D planet when you can create a planet in photoshop!
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Felicidades por el DD, tarde pero llegΓ³
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Antes... <.< .. >.> .. del fin ... ‘¿2012?!
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I dont know when I'll use this but thank for making it. I have the resource when the time comes now
Nice work
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Incredibly helpful. Thank you!
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Not exactly what I had in mind, but heck it's better then nothing, right?
Kinda weird that I find this right now though...
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OMG this is VERY well done!~ fantastic job, and amazing how u figured out to solve DeviantART's glitches XD
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Hey, it's me again! ...the n00b who needs help with everything. 
Okay, so I've downloaded GIMP and tried to adapt to this tutorial... Does GIMP actually have somthing similar to "Layer Styles"? (What is used on the Atmosphere Layer before applying Gaussian Blur to the Shadow Layer.) I can't seem to find anything similar and I'm pretty sure I can't get around omitting the proper lighting! 
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I've never used GIMP so I'm useless on that end, hehe.
One of these days, I'll download it and see what I cam come up with.
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Oh well. Thanks for taking the time anyway! ^^ You really are a master and I wish you the best of luck!
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great tut, grats on the worthy dd
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Wow - this is really simple. I totally feel like I could do it. Thanks!
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I love outcome of this tutorial sooo much, too bad i dont have photoshop
just a thought for the future: How bout making a tutorial on this for gimp?
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I keep recommending the GIMP to people who say that they dont have photoshop. I've never used the GIMP myself but I might give it a try and see what happens.
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Thanks, because i dont have $600 lying around for photoshop
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I thought it could be brought for $400 dollars.
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whatever it is, i dont have that much money laying around
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*Looking into a black leather folding stuff and found a lot of green papers.*
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soo coool!!!!! 
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I needed this so much @__@ thanks! ^^
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First of all, great tutorial.
But okay...I get to the step where you delete the shadow outside the planet and I ctrl+click the base layer as well, and for some reason, I can't copy. I end up pasting and the previous thing I copied gets pasted. I cant seem to copy the layers like I'm supposed to. What's wrong and do you know how to fix this? Thanks.
BTW, I am using CS3.
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Maybe i'm rusty on this one but you're not supposed to paste anything after you erase the extra shadow.
Are you talking after you blurred the shadow layer?
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Ah okay. And yeah...a while after.
But it should be fine now.
I figured out a way to do it differently with the same results. ^___^
Thanks.
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Very nice looking tutorial. I'll have to try this one out.
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Awesome! I could use this for some classes; nice work!
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Wow that is so beautiful... Heh-heh, anyway
congrats on the DD, eh? This deserves
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I always wanted to learn how to do this ^_^
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1. IE fails
2. That rock's texture looks like the Eastern hemisphere. Coincidence? I THINK NAWT
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3...TWO megapixels? -faints-
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