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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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I was a bit confused by your multiple comments, so what do you need help with?
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Make the shadow layer effective to the planet only.
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What you're trying to do here is erase the parts of the shadow layer that go beyond the shape of the planet (so that you don't obscure the background too).
You need to ctrl+click (or command+click) the thumbnail of the base layer in the layers palette. This will create the marquee selection (animated dotted line) around the shape of the planet. Then, invert the selection (ctrl+shift+i or command+shift+i on a mac) and then erase around it.
Let me know how that works
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It works, thanks for explaining it to me.
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Hi, it's me again, I can't figure out how to do the ctrl c and ctrl v to copy paste the shadow layer, it doesn't work.
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Hey sorry, I was trying it on Photoshop 8.0 and was really annoyed, I finally got access to my cs5 and now everythings fine.
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Ignore my last comment. I could not find where the layer effect thing is. Is it possible that some photoshops do not have it?
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This is brilliant! (As is your icon btw)
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Brilliant! Such a nice inspiration for me to complete this [link]
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A brilliant tutorial! Had a stab at it here: [link]
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Help!.. On the second last step before adding the planet's texture, it says to activate the shadow layer but not to select it? What does that mean? And also, after that it says to control click the Base layer. But when I do that, nothing happens? I tried randomly copying and pasting those two layers but I still don't understand. How is the shadow pasted on to the base? Could any one explain this a bit further?
Btw, great tutorial >.<
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To activate but not control click means that it should be the highlighted layer on the layers palette. So it should be the current layer on which you're working but it shouldn't have the marquee selection around it (dotted line around the shape).
Let me know if you still need help.
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Thanks for this! Great tutorial!
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Had a bit of trouble at some points, mainly the linking layers thing. I eventually figured out your result was the same as rasterizing the layer style on a black sphere for the Atmosphere layer.
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Your tutorial helped me create this: [link]
Thank you so much.
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"Now hat we have our shadow layer..."
Great tutorial. I'll be uploading my results once I'm finished and will be sure to send you a link.
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this looks incredable ill try it out l8r
great tutorial
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Thank you so much!
Very well done and usefull
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Thanks!! For the tutorial! I use it here--->[link]
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My Digital Imaging Class Did This As A Project xD
I Just Found Your Guide Now Though xD
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No way! This tutorial used in class?
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Yahh. I Showed It To The Teacher And He's Lieeek "Whaat? No Way I've Been Doing It Longer Than This TROLOLOL" XD
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Thanks for the great tutorial! 
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Thanks for the tutorial
Here's the result [link]
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Great tutorial
Used and gave you credit on my work
[link]
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i made an attempt to use your tutorial here in the hopes that i am on the right track
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Oh my god This tutorial is absolutely amazing and stunning
thank you sooo much
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If you're interested, I used this tutorial to help make this image: [link]
Thank you very much indeed!
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Marvelous tutorial, thank you very much!
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This is great stuff. Thankyou very much for sharing.
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Such a brilliant tutorial. Many thanks, very handy
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Let you know that some steps didn't work in new verison of photoshop so I had to make few changes to make it works.
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Perhaps a revision is at hand. What version did you use?
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I tried your way but some step, I am at loss... when you said apply layer style, is it to one style to one layer or all 3 style to one layer? that part is not clear to me. What I see here is one color base and two black base... can you explain a bit more? thanks.
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For spacy inspiration, what about some Netsky 
Awesome Tut, btw. Helped me a lot for a logo IΒ΄m workinΒ΄on. Thx mate.
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That is the BEST tutorial i have ever had for planets.. Thank you so much all the other ones are so complicated and you just starts to get depressd because it never turns out nice..
THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH !
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OMG magic! nice tutorial, thanks i will use it to create some rotating planet animation. cool thanks again!
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Thank you for the Tutorial!
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