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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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Are you using photoshop Elements? If you are, then this might be why. The tutorial is for 7 and newer.
You can copy them by just duplicating them through the layers menu or layers palette.
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I'm using Photoshop CS2 which is higher than 7. The shadow cutout thing still isn't working, even with duplication, but I'm able to manage without. Thanks for your help, the planets look great!
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I couldnt do two things, first, the copying the shadow layer part. How do I make something 'active'. When I CTRL+C / V , then the shadow layer is copied and slightly off place, I move it into place and delete the shadow one, is that correct? Then when I move the texture across, it appears in the background, not on the planet.
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1) you can copy in place by just duplicating it (in the layers menu or in the layers palette)
2) What i mean by "active" is that it should be the layer you're working on (highlighted on the layers palette)
You basically need two black circles. One for the atmosphere glows, and another one for the shadow. Their order doesnt matter because you'll end up deleting part of the atmosphere effects.
Hit me back if you encounter any more snags
PS: You'd better not be using photoshop Elements. The tutorial works for 7 and beyond (and maybe a few versions prior to 7).
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Wow! O.O'... Your Planet Tutorial's really awesome.
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hja... this is really hard 
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Hey man this tutorial is plain awesome. Simple, clean, straight. I used it here . Take a look if you don't mind
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just went through this tut... amazing... ive done alot of different tutorials for space stuff and this is without a doubt one of the best, ah hell it is the best one i have ever done 
/bow
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Can you use Photoshop CS2 to do these sort of things?
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Yea, although some shortcuts or techniques, like ctrl+click to select a layer, may work differently.
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Thank-you 
P.S. great work
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Muchas gracias! This reeeeaaallly helped. Thanks again!
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Dude im using your tutorial to help me make my art...ok???
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exept 1 thing pissed me off...i could open the layer effect thingy...i tried for like 10 minutes buyt the thing wasnt black so i couldn;t click on it....i use photoshop elements 2.0
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Yea most people had trouble if they used that version
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for some reason its not working right on my computer. probably because I have adobe photoshop 2.0.
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Thanks for your great tutorial. I'll try it in Gimp on Linux
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Good luck!
You can try the tutorials section over at [link] .
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excellent tut.. taught me a thing or 2 about terraspacing... BUT and this one is a big "BUT", what I've noticed every space artist keeps avoiding is how to add sharpness and crispyness to the scene,since using a distorted jpeg causes much loss in detail and quality,AND if you try "manually" sharpening the whole thing,you end up with something very ugly...
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To be honest, a lot of times i avoid sharpness on planets. If everything on the scene is sharp, then there is no sense of depth.
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well... I don't really know because most of the terraspace pieces Ive seen are so sharp and crispy and clean... 
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Just look at any picture. Lets say its a picture of a dude with some mountains in the back. They both wont be totally detailed. Depending on the focus (even if the depth of range is set to max), one will have more detail than the other. Thats a big problem with a lot of space art. Everything is super detailed and its just too much. But I could go on for days on end listing and talking about things that most space artists do wrong, heh.
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well... I just want to do it the right way ! that's why I was asking for your help...
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You can basically divide your scenes in 2 parts. Background and foreground. Pick where your point of interest is and then the rest wont really need overwhelming detail. You're basically putting emphasis on one or more things, but they need to be in the same plane.
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Brilliant tutorial... helped me out a lot. Thanks ^^
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I originally found this on Solarvoyager, I love this tut! It really helped me to get off the ground with space art
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So... do you still use this or something else now?
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I havent worked on a space scene in ages, but if i would, i dont think i'd use something radically different than this.
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i wont lie i suck at photoshop, but i tryed this and i did NOT work, i dunno if i fucked up or what but it wont do for me what is dose for you, so ether you left something out i suck more than i thought
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i couldnt get the atmosphere effect wouldnt work... it looked like crap
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Which version of photoshop are you running? I wrote the tutorial working with 7.0
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that might be why, im useing cs... but i dunno, i think its cuz i suck
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Great tut,for beginers like me.Thanks
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Great Tutorial! It's by far one of the best ive seen.
(good idea making it a jpeg, switching from firefox to photoshop is annoying)
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i might wanna try it out someday
this are very great
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Looks pretty cool dude, I've just decided to give making planets a shot so this will help.
Damn I hate page switching in browsers, so making this one long image is too cool.
Cheers,
Sandemonic
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I think thats probably the best way to open up a tutorial that I've seen in a long time.
"Put on some space music, and get a nice cold one". lol, thats just perfect.
~Dot.
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Damn. An amazing tutorial, but I cant get the pattern right. Do you have it somewhere that I can download cause no matter how hard I try, I cannot get it right. Still, it seems great (havent been able to finish)
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