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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 665319; 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
I dunno really what GIMP is, I've only ever messed with Photoshop... I could probably make this work, just slightly more complicated in getting circles...
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GIMP is an image editing program like photoshop, but free. Not as powerful as Photoshop, but probably better than Elements
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w00!!! I just learned something today!
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Awesome tutorial!
Here's what I made.. [link]
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very insightful! Thanks so much!
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This is excellent work! Congrats on the DD!
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Extra points for the Juno Reactor suggestion!
All in all, a pretty excellent tutorial.
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I've never really thought about making planets but after I've read this great tutorial, I really want to give it a shot! Thanks a bunch for making it!
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I'm sure that you're gonna look for excuses to slap a planet or a moon on your next art
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Probably. XD *already thinking about it*
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Love this tutorial. Have used it in several of my works. But hasn't it been a DD before???
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Not this one. I remember a few years ago, a similar tutorial (which paraphrased mine) got a DD. Maybe you're thinking of that one.
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The most exaustive tutorial on planets I've seen, and that technnique rocks!
Excellent job! as a spacescape lover I deeply thank you for making this tutorial
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wow at the end you cant even tell that the textute is a rock, thing
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On one occasion, I scanned an oatmeal cookie for a texture
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wow that is so cool, i cant even tell!
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i've been reading like crazy lately and overdosing on science fiction, so this tutorial is exactly what the doctor prescribed. thank you for sharing!
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Oh, glorious and useful!
You could make a kickass moon with this, even if you weren't making a spacescape!
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This is fantastic! I've always wondered how people paint such detailed planets in 2D programs like Photoshop, and you do a great job with explaining. I'll just have to try this one some time. =d
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Great tutorial, my result was pretty good
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I have no idea where the sapherize button is? I am looking for it like an hour! Can someone help?
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Wenever I click spherize it says it's not available... why not?
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you should make a selection, then go to the menu "filters" than "distort" or something like that and there's the "spherize" option
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I tried that I don't have it, but never mind now I guess...
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there's some options like "8 bits" or "16 bits" on the new document option, that disables some filters, don't remember where to change it
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thankyou so much! I so needed this
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I used this, It was pretty cool. But i used GIMP instead of Photoshop, I think I did well for a first try.
[link]
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Awesome tutorial! Do you have any others?
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I have a planet ring tutorial in my gallery as well. I uploaded that one relatively recently.
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Great tutorial mate. Very helpful.
Thanks a lot!
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thanks for that tutorial.
just startin off with those space stuff, so I need all the hlp I can get
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Thanks so much for the tutorial! I used my planet featuring my debris brush set here . Check it out! Thanks again.
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This is great!
Inspirational tutorial that helped me a lot!
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Thank you very much!! This would help me a lot
^_^
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Thanks a lot ..this was what I needed ,great job buddy .
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So the secret of making planets is revealed... Hehe thanks a ton
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can i please have permission to post this in sigresource.com? with a link back to your DA?
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Yup! I could've sworn that I had already replied to this question, though.
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