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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 665337; 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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Keep in mind that the texture will have to be made smaller in size so that you minimize the blurriness. It is inevitable that the center of the image gets blurry. So making it smaller is the best way to reduce its appeal.
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I've been working it and getting there. Not quite, but close. Thanks for the tut.
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Tried it out, but did not quite came up with the same thing you did. Your planet seems to have more contrast or something. Anyway, thanks. Great tut!
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It may have to do with the texture itself, or with how you work the shadows.
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great tutorial! just what i needed for my new computer graphics assignment:
create an image that demonstrates the quote, "The world is my idea" by Schopenhauer.
thanks!
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I thank you for this, it will allow me to do major work for my battlezone wiki at [link]
Thank you very much for sharing this great Tutorial.
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I thank you for this, it will allow me to do major work for my battlezone wiki at [link]
Tank you very much for sharing this great Tutorial.
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I tank you for this, it will allow me to do major work for my battlezone wiki at [link]
Tank you very much for sharing this great Tutorial.
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Thanks a lot! I was actually needing something like this.
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Excellent tutorial. I'm going to have to capture some textures and try this out. Thanks!
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thank you for a very nice and simple tutorial!
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awesome! can't wait to try it out!
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Very interesting and Very helpful; thanks for sharing the knowledge.
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you are absolutely awesome! Thanks a lot for the tutorial!
....now to check your whole gallery
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Great 
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Best planet tutorial I've seen yet. I can really use this for game design. Thanks.
-Dash
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nice job, very informative - now i have time on my hands i'll be constructing my own little universe on my Vaio
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Thanks for the cool tutorial I'm going to have to give it a try 
I am just learning how to do planets and photoshop too. Now off the find some textures
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man i love this tut great work
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would you mind telling me where you get your textures from? i can never find anything.
awesome tut btw
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I take pictures of them. And not only that, you can scan things with textures. Cookies work great. Really!
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Nice tip! I'll try as soon as possible!
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i don't have the eliptical marquee... what do i do then?
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If you click and hold the rectangular marquee button, a small menu will open with other shapes. Try that.
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This tutorial is supreame, i must say! Thanks heaps mate, my planet really turned out swell!
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Amazing!
Btw! Iam one of the owners of a newer graphics site (www.royal-designs.net), we are pleased to say we over over 150 tutorials, 12 already accepted on Pixel2life, over 680 members, and a great community in the short time we have been around. I would apreciate it if you would check it out and post your tutorials, if you have any problems/suggestions please tell me because your work seems great and I would love to see you around, thank you very much.
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I'll keep that in mind! I am planning to remake this particular tutorial and make it more......modern perhaps.
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That would be awesome if you have any problems or suggestions or just want to add me my msn is Blade@Royal-Designs.net feel free to add me
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This is an awesome tutorial. I'm having a lot of trouble though when it comes time to create a new layer and link it to the atmosphere layer. For some reason it won't let me do anything with it...help?
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If you're using CS2, then you have to ctrl+click both layers so that they're both highlighted in the layers palette. Then you can go to the layers menu or click on the little right-arrow at the top right of the layers palette and then you should be able to see the link an merge options.
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That's amazing man! thanks and great job!!
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smashing!!
I like this very very much! Thanx
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wow u make it look so simple! Will be trying this later, thanks
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holy crap this is the tut i used about a month ago on a still not finished product im not yet skill wise up 2 finishing it. I looked up comets found your amazing image and then found this. So cool. thx alot once i get better with ps i will be very thankful.
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You. Are. Awesome. I've been looking for a good planet tutorial for ages now, and this is just it. Thankyou! *opening up photoshop*
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Great tutorial, It was very helpful. You should post it at [link] and earn credits for your work and use them in the shop to get brushes,psds, and other items from other artists. We also have a tournament coming up next month for the winner to win $30.
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What do you mean by "not selected but active" for the shadow layer? I am using Photoshop CS2, if that helps. I'm stuck. I can't get that step to work.
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Selected basically means having the marquee selection (dotted line) around an object (a circle, in this case)
Active means that its the layer you're working on (highlighted in the layers palette).
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Ok. Now that I got that down, I realized that I cannot copy and paste the layers after selecting them. Did I mess up the previous step or something? Sorry if I'm being a pest, I'm just determined to get this right.
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