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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 664974; 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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Feel free to ask any questions if you're having trouble with it
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ty for making this! I will keep trying till I get it right!
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Im having trouble with how you got your shadow looking like it does because mine doesnt go from dark to light aswell as yours does, ive followed the instruction but cant get it to work right. Any tips?
my planet: [link]
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I am using photoshop, but i must ask where do you get the texture
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The texture is a picture of a rock that I took. You can take a picture yourself or try to find stock textures. You'd be amazed what can be used. I once scanned a chocolate chip cookie and it made for a great texture (after some modifications, of course).
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im stuck at the part where you are removing the shadow and im stuck, any help please guys and dolls?
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Perhaps you could explain how you're stuck or even submit a screenshot of your current stage and show me so that I can help you better.
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great tutorial, thanks for sharing yer wisdom.
here is my outcome: [link]
cheers
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Omfg. Really help, but is this CAN be for beginners?
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Beginners may not understand the glossary that I'm using and where/how to access certain things. But hey! Why not give it a shot?
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Thnk you so much ;DD Your tutorial has helped me a lot ^^
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Great tutorial! Thanks a bunch ^_^
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Hi, Im at the point where I need to erase Shadow from the rest of the planet.... and it says to press CTRL + base (whilst the shadow layer is active but not selected.) I'm stuck, could you help me plz??
BTW awesome tutorial.
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same! any luck? how do i do that part? :s
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oh i managed to find a way. i just used teh magic wand tool and inverted the selection, then deleted it.
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It's truly a good tutorial, very clear and the most important, easy to understand.
And you have the best avatar I've ever seen.
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Thank you! Oh thank you so very much for these tutorials! They're a terrific help!
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Thank you so much man, very helpful!!
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Thank you so much for the tutorial!!
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Wow this is really a good tutorial, and the results were just fantastic! Even thought I didn't follow every step of it (like making some layers overlay instead of screen).
This is brilliant! Thank you very much for making it!
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Really awesome tutorial! Thanks for posting this! :]
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Thank you so much for this tutorial. It's brilliant. It's so simple to follow (except that I didn't know how to convert a layer to "Screen", so my first few attampts were confusing 
You've made me so enthusiastic about trying more, so hopefully I'll start having art on my profile soon!
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This is an amazing tutorial. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with others.
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Awesome. Will potentially use this over the summer!
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Im guessing that this is a fairly old post but never the less just wanted to say thanks for the amazing tutorial, worked like a charm. once ive finished the rest of my space scene ill post a link. thanks allot, great indepth tutorial.
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thanks for the tutorial i made my own planet for my digital arts class( had to make somthing using a tutorial i linked it to this page) and i think it turned out great
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[link]
and heres it where the dark side is fixed
[link]
i tried to make it more like a moon or a barren planet
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I can get to transforming of the shadow and then when I try to make it so I can add a background it won't work. I don't know why.
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I forgot to save it and don't have time right now to do it again. I will show you where I get stuck when I have time to do it again.
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This tutorial is fantastic! Really easy to follow and gives great result! Kudos!
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This is a truly awesome tutorial! It makes you feel more proud of your work because you dont get the texture off the net.
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This is a great tutorial. I can see that it is very many, many years old. Thank you for keeping up for so long. I got it very close the 1st time I tried it repeat your steps.
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An oldie but still relevant
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lol. It was amazing how when I was making the little changes it would ever so slightly transform into a planet.
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Great tutorial. Best one I have seen . I happen to be stuck on the part where we try to eliminate the extra shadow so it doesnt interfere with the star fields and such. so i have the shadow layer with its visibility on but not selected. i have "base" layer selected and then I ctrl + click the layer and a dashed line surrounds my planet. I copy and paste the layer and i get a duplicate "base" layer. The problem is when I delete the original shadow layer the shadow is erased aswell. All the shadow erases and I return to my original color with the layer styles. Thx for your help
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Half way when you say it should look like this and you have 3 images 2 planets and one of the layers. when I created a new layer what do I do with it. I dont get a black circle.
Also How do i add my light so i get the atmosphere look?
some steps are confusing if you could elaborate on those.
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Half way when you say it should look like this and you have 3 images 2 planets and one of the layers. when I created a new layer what do I do with it. I dont get a black circle.
Also How do i add my light so i get the atmosphere look?
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