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Published: 2010-04-23 00:20:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 583; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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Here is my first attempt at a nebula. I'd love some critique on it, so please! Do give your opinion!I know it's kind of small, but whatever. Hope to get better at nebulas
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Credits
[link] Thank you nisht for posting your wonderful tutorial.
Satellite images used as textures
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Details
Applications-Photoshop CS4 Extended
Original Resolution-550x1200 at 300 dpi
4/22
Work Time-≈3-4 hours
Layers-13 after merging from 25
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Comments: 5
Dude - you're totally on the way there - just keep working with the clouds filters and layer masks plus blend modes. Try this - use the difference clouds filter, but run it a few times on the same layer which will give you a very chaotic texture to start with. From there - use the hue/saturation filter with colorize turned on to give the nebula some color.
What you've go here already is beautiful - just push it further and experiment with the filters more.
Check out my spacescapes gallery, that's how did nearly all of my nebulas.
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I'll try out your ideas
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It shows good potential for your first attempt. Nisht tutorial is quite good. I'm trying to create a method using his tutorial as a base and then working in other ideas of my own.
Anyways, this is quite good. I'd say it needs a starfield (not many at all though). And NO lens flare effects as alot of people do in the beginning. Also, I know nisht constantly flattens the image as he work but I'd recomment not doing that so you have control over each layer later on. Like right now, for this nebula I'd recommend reducing the opacity on the colour dodge layer to about 75-90% and you'll see it will actually resembe nisht's nebula alot more.
Best of luck with it.
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Thank you 
Instead of saving the image as a jpeg and flattening, I'll use "Apply Image."
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You should also always save your work in PNG or TIFF (although TIFFs are very large) format instead of JPEG because eah time you save a jpeg it gets compresses more and more so you always loose quality. TIFF and PNG are lossless formats and both have many advantages of their own. TIFFs hold the alpha channels while PNGs retain transparency. I usually just save a jpeg copy at the very end for uploadning to the web.
Hope that helps
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