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stratomunchkin In reply to Euskelo [2014-05-01 09:54:36 +0000 UTC]

Lots of nebula brushes. Lots of tweaking the "Hue and Saturation" settings of each of them. A black background. A dark blue layer set to low opacity placed above it. Many different star brushes of different sizes and forms. Other nebula brushes with black as the chosen color. And a custom-made sun for the Antares red giant. Added a small lens flare when I as finished.

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Euskelo In reply to stratomunchkin [2014-05-01 10:02:30 +0000 UTC]

It was worth the effort. It looks very realistic, and beautiful. Is there a story behind it, or something planned?

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stratomunchkin In reply to Euskelo [2014-05-01 10:12:21 +0000 UTC]

Another author from my "home forum" of Spacebattles.com and I have been putting our heads together for some time now. We're planning to adapt one of his fanfics into an original setting. Antares and the Coalsack Nebula would feature as a location at some point, but that's still far off in the future. At this point it'd basically be like GRRM saying "Oh, X and Y will happen in "A Feast for Crows", but I haven't started writing Book 1 yet. Right now we're setting up what makes the universe run (races, technology, politics), but the actual writing won't start before this year's autumn as we're still both juggling other projects.

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Euskelo In reply to stratomunchkin [2014-05-01 10:32:23 +0000 UTC]

Sounds like a fun project. Good luck with it! Images such as this will greatly enhance the story, once it is written.

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stratomunchkin In reply to Euskelo [2014-05-01 10:36:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your kind words.

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