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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 664989; Favourites: 8979; 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'm ready for make my planet!!!!
Thanks dinyctis
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There are several 360 Spherical and Cross type texture maps of Si-Fi planet surfaces with high resolutions at
[link]
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Neat! Maybe I will someday get some out of this!
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Love this tutorial... I've used it to try my hand at space backdrops. My only issue is getting rid of the shadow layer.
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Beautiful, easy-to-follow tutorial. Imma try my hand at this now.
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Thank you soooo much... I love making Space Scenes and this Really Helped.
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Excellent! Glad to have been helpful
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I ended up, uploading a image with a planet from your tutorial : [link]
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Thanks for the tut! Used it here [link]
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That's really useful!! Thank you for uploading it!
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HI there, I just wanted to thank you so much for sharing such a great tutorial. With help from your technique i created this [link] Thank you so much
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thank you for this every since i got this ive been addicted to making these planets
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Have fun with them! I'm glad to have been of help
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whoa, that helped a lot! Congratulations for your skills!
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And congratulations to you for taking the first steps
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arg... i failed to understand some things and ended up using other techniques to get the same result:[ *will have to try again later*
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Let me know which ones and I'll be able to help you out
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great tutorial and all but quick question how do you get the texture document to the atmosphere document?
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Awesome tutorial. Help me a lot!
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Hi I used your tutorial here: [link] Check it out??
Thank you so much it really helped
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Very Handfull this tutorial, thank to you and congratulations!
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Thanks for the awesome tutorial [link]
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Very nice tut! 
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It means that it's active in the layers palette and that all the changes that you're making will be applied to that one layer.
What I mean by "selected" is the animated dotted line around the shape of a layer on the canvas
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Used again ^_^ [link] & [link] (detail)
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Thanks for the awesome tutorial~
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Awsome tutorial
I will be using it!
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Thank you. This is an amazing tutorial, will try it out as soon as possible
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Good luck! Feel free to ask me any questions you may have.
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Will do. Well here is my first attempt, what do you think? [link]
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Thanks for your well presented tut, its inspired me no end : )
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Glad to have been of help
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i don't get the part where you ctrl+click the base and then copy and paste. photoshop won't let me do it and it's getting quite frustrating. what am i doing wrong?
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You do that on a number of steps. What stage are you in? Copying the base layer at the beginning? Working on the shadow after blurring it?
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i'm working on the shadow, and want it to stick within the base instead of seeing this black blob over the background. i have been having some software issues with photoshop, maybe it's just not playing ball
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If you're trying to "select" the base layer so that you have a dotted line around the planet in order to erase the extra shadow...
You ctrl+click on the little window on the palette layer, not on the name (the tiny thumbnail to the left). That will select the shape of whatever layer that is. Then, you have to inverse it (ctrl+shift+I or just do it from the select menu). Once you do that, you can then go ahead and erase the remainder of the black blob, hehe.
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