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dinyctis — Planetary Rings Tutorial
Published: 2008-07-27 04:06:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 40800; Favourites: 682; Downloads: 5824
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This one is way overdue. I got the desire to write one when I saw the tutorial telling people to use the spiral filter. Good effort, but that's wrong like a cubed planet. Rings are not spirals like that. Yes, I know that Cassini found a spiral of dust around Saturn's rings, but it looks nothing like the spiral tool in Photoshop!But enough about that. Here's an alternative and what i've been using when making them in Photoshop.
As usual, let me know if you're having any problems at all. Also, if you do make rings and are satisfied, tell me about what your approach. We can all learn quite a bit here
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i'm having trouble bringing the rings into the scene.. in particular creating the circle and deleting the center
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Can you be more specific?
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Sorry about that... Step 7
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You have to click the circular marquee tool (shift+M to sort through the different shapes). Once you do that, you have to set a soft feather setting at the top left of the screen (I used 20 pixels of feather). Then draw a circle in the center of the rings and hit the delete key.
So what you're basically trying to do is get rid of the crap tht formed in the middle of the "rings." We need to adjust the feather because we want a nice, smooth selection and not a hard edge.
Let me know if you need more help
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I'm having the same problem as Attelocin, although I do have the reader. I'm not able to download it and it rests on the page and eventually my desktop freezes. I've had no problem downloading other tutorials, so I don't know why this one won't work. Is there any other place that you have this linked to? I'm really interested in this tutorial and I'd hate to miss a really good one.
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On the download button, right-click it and select "save link as."
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You're tutorials are a great help! I've always wanted to do space art, I've just never been able to figure out how xD
Thanks for putting these up!
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You're amazing. Your tutorials are so simple and I love your attitude.
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Yay! Thank you very much 
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thanks for this helpful tutorials
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This is beautiful! Can't wait to try it out!!
Thank you!
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cool stuff, 
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your a god dinyetics thank you, one other tut i would like you to consider is details such as lights on a planet, and any kind of water reflections you can come up with. Ive been working on small things like that to see if i can get the glimmer seen in nasa pictures, but i havent gotten it to work
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I hope you consider to writing a spiral tutorial - a new, deep and detailed one.
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oh you already did the rings tutorial - sorry my mistake. I thought it's a preview of upcoming or something. just downloaded - great job
And yeah I could use a galaxy tutorial too
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I don't do a lot with Photoshop but I'll definitely have a go at this.
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Well I have a method where I make my ringed planets in 3D, but this here has nicer looking results by the looks of the preview picture, might check it out later on
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For some reason I can't download it. The file type isn't compatible with my computer or something.
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Yeah, when I click "download" it takes forever and then wants me to buy a program from Adobe. Wha happenin D:
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Thank you, but I already have Reader, and that site's in a european language. Oh well--no big deal, I can learn on my own how to make planet rings.
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Yeah. I figured that out just as I clicked the send button :/ ..
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Glad to see something new from you! Great tutorial, thanks.
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Finally! It's here!
Great tutorial, I'll add a ring planet with your method
in the current piece I'm trying to work on.
You know another tutorial you should do?
Nebulas. -_-
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2 minutes after submission and you've already gone through it?
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Not gone through it, but glanced on it.
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