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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 665327; 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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WOW, I've been wondering how to do this! Thanks!
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I'm not sure if i said thanks for the tutorial.
Here is my first planet [link]
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Great tutorial! I now do spacey stuff
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Wonderful tutorial Thankyou so very very much.
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wow this was great tutorial i used it and i had great outcome.
thx for making it.
do you think i can post it on a forum.
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i have made a planet with this tutorial: [link]
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omg!!thanks for the wonderful tut and yes!!she is a beauty!!>v<
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Man, i tried it out and its looking so damn amazing, thx dude! i hav to fav it, awesome...
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Oh damn, it looks so wonderful...
Thx for that amazing tutorial dude, yeehaaw!
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I love this tutorial, it helped me out sooo much! Thank you!
I thought you might like to see what I have done with the tutorial: [link]
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Wow. Looked for a tutorial so I could draw a simple round-looking planet with just a few details, and suddenly I've got what looks like a photograph of the planet I was making... Awesome. Great tutorial...
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very helpful.
with its help i made this [link]
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[link]
I thought you might like to have a look!
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This is great!
Just the right amount of detail.
I appreciate it!
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Uou man, thankΒ΄s for this tutorial!!!!!!!
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Wow thanks for the tut 
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There are many ways. Your best option (to keep alignment without extra steps) would be just to right click the layer on the layer palette and select "duplicate layer."
The way I described it, you gotta make sure that the selection tool (shortcut is the V key), then hit ctrl+A (to select all of it) and then ctrl+C (to copy) and then ctrl+V (to finally paste).
Yet another way would be to hold down the alt key and then use the arrow keys to copy it. One copy per stroke, so don't be thinking that it doesnt work but you're making many copies
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Nevermind ignore my previous comment, i really should read carefully!
If i get into trouble again, is it possible to PM you?
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Of course you can PM me! What good is a tutorial without following through? Just ask away and I'll try to help you out
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wondering if someone could help me out. i am on task 1 still, and when i apply a Guassian Blur, i get the wrong effect. Here is a preview:
[link]
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Your shadow needs to be black! You have it blue right now
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What do you mean exactly, i am fairly new to photoshop and may have trouble understanding what you meant.
i have included 3 images below of the shadow, base and atmosphere:
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Or could i PM you? thanks
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Hey i dont understand how to link a new layer with 'atmosphere', haha. Can someone help me out?
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What version of photoshop are you using?
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Excellent and great, another one for my tuts library!
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Awesome tutorial! I'll be making these very soon!
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Very good
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I was looking for a planet tutorial, and i'm glad I found this one. It's a really nice and east tutorial to breezes through, though i'm still have some trouble with it ^_^.
w/e i'm still working on it.
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I'll use this tutorial 
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Awesome tutorial...even 4 years after it's release. XD
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Very good and humorous tutorial! Thanks a lot. I made this Ghost Moon with it's help.
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Excellent, thorough tutorial. I planned to make a futuristic wallpaper later, and I will acknowledge your great tut.
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spelled tutorial wrong, what are you some kind of Phillipino
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This is FANTASTICC work! BUT, I have photoshop elements 0.3 and somehow Im not quite getting how you get the shades "Layer Style" Is there some way you can help me how you do this? I really want to know how to make planets and moons and so on. Can you?? m(_ _)m <-begs>
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It seems that the problem is that you have photoshop elements
It doesnt have all the features and tools from the full version
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crap -_- Oh and its elements 3.0, not 0.3 XD [read it wrong] Well, I found something that works for me, if you take a lookie see at my gallery you'll see the moons I made lastnight. I will find a way XD [why do they have to make photoshop 1-10282734847213 and then photoshop elements 1.0-912738761893421.0 XD]
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Well they made 1 to 7 and then they started with the CS series. They're up to CS3
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lol seems a lot to me XD
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