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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 664968; Favourites: 8980; 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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Thank you for the detailed tutorial! I appreciate the variety in options that you mentioned, and kudos for Juno Reactor
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Wow, thank you for the awesome tutorial! Was really useful for me to create a believable space scene. (Also, whenever I do space related stuff, I listen to Daft Punk. Discovery inspires me most ^^)
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Fantastic.. thanks a lot for this tutorial!Β
I needed just a nice space/planet view for a cockpit-shot I made... I ended up creating a whole planet!
www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/β¦
Again thanks for your inspiration and help!
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Bless you. Just... bless you. ;.; I'm making a scifi videogame and this tutorial is going to help me a LOT.
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ahh so im following this tutorial but for whatever reason my effects arent showing up on my atmosphere layer??? ; o; did i do something wrong?
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Send me a screenshot of what you have, including the layers palette.
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ah nevermind!! im so sorry to bother you, i got it to work!! it was some layer mishap but i redid it and it worked. thank you so much for your time and for the tutorial as well! c:
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Great tutorial, made a Mars-esque planet with it.
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Used here:Β yurikolovsky.deviantart.com/arβ¦
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Dude, just for the introduction it was worth my fave, haha.
But seriously, great tutorial, gonna try it as soon as I have some free time.
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Used your tutorial here: tehnybor.deviantart.com/art/Sp⦠Thanks so much!!
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I'm stalled on your tutorial, at first every time I followed the cntl click command to do that shadow part every time I hit ctrl V all I got was a big black Square took me a while to realize this was a layer I'd copied ages ago for the star scape.Β so I manually copied the base layer because for some reason ctrl C will not copy and it won't work right can you offer any manual instructions using the menu options?Β because these keyboard shortcuts are not working, Thank you for the great tutorial otherwise though
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If you're using a Mac, it should be Command, not ctrl.
In which part are you?Β Trying to work on the shadow?Β You can manually duplicate the base layer (which should be a solid color) and then just make it black ((turn its brightness all the way down).Β That might solve it, as far as the copying goes.Β Let me know if you need more help
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No I'm on a PC but I'll just use your suggestion and copy the base layer, I ended up rejiging the whole sketch and moved the planet to the shadow was off the page 
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Sounds good! Glad that it worked out
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Used your tutorial Here . Great work, easy to understand.
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If you apply a radial blur to your cloud layer, it will give the planet the appearance of rotation.
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I tried to follow your tutorial.. the only problem i got is i couldn't resize the texture... i couldnt invert it either, i had to select all layers to be able to invert and when i clicked on it, an error appear with "no pixels selected" or something like that
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"no pixel selected" tends to happen when you try to make changes to an empty layer.Β Make sure that it's a highlighted layer with actual material in it in the layers palette.
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I cant speak English very well. I have a problem with the expression "With the shadow layer active, bur not selected"
What is active... it equals to selected?? I'm confused
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Active means highlighted in the layers palette.Β Selected means having the dotted line around the shape of the layer.
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Yes, it is the layer that you are currently working on.
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Thanks for the reply
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Very interesting... i'll let you know how well i can use it.
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can someone please make a video of this exact tutorial, because I just cant follow it for some reason and this has the best end result I have seen so far.
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having fun doing planets now ^^ thanks for the tutorial it help alot ^^
heres my works for now:
1-inpbo.deviantart.com/art/Plane⦠(actualy i think that i'll rename this, i feel like this is done
2-inpbo.deviantart.com/art/Exploβ¦
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There was a step or two that I hit a snag on...
On the step where we are to apply those three settings to the atmosphere layer, the result looks more like what's on the RIGHT than what is on the left...which didn't surprise me cause you said to make the atmosphere layer black? Changing it to the light green I used (I wanted a greenish planet) made it be what it showed, but in the end that just made things look odd...
Also when I applied my texture, it didn't turn out NEARLY as clear and visible as what you have in the example...it was barely visible, and again it was cause the layer over it was a screened black.
None the less, with some persistance and tweaking of settings, I somehow got a satisfactory result ( fav.me/d6n9l7z ). But I still think I missed something vital in the tutorial...
None the less, thank you for this. It was very helpful, and I will resource to this in the future
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Thanks brah, learned a lot from this. I'd be happy if I could do even a tenth of what you do
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Just do it ten times and you'd have a whole one!
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Used it hereΒ johnsmed91.deviantart.com/art/β¦
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Thanks for your awesome tutorial:Β 4t0m1c-w07f.deviantart.com/artβ¦
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I didnt follow this exactly but this still helped heaps 
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on the step where it talks about the starfields. i got a bit confused. how many layers are you left with after so. and how you get your texture into the first document. does it matter if you shape it up after. because i didn't quite do that. i didn't really need to. because back on the step where it talks about starfields. i could paste the base layer. it kept pasting the texture layer when i first got my texture.
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If that works for you then that's cool.Β I prefer to put starfields behind the planets so that it's easier for me to move the planets around and add effects on top of both.Β Is that what you're referring to?
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not quite. but i fixed it. kinda makeshifted it.
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This tutorial is SO AMAZING! I made this :3 [link]
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awsome tutorial! cant wait to try it
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Why is it that between the gaussian blur step and the shadow transform step the halo around the planet gets larger?
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