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Planet Tutorial
Published: 2003-09-21 22:46:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 665005; 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've been looking for a good planet tutorial for a while, so I will try out this one and see how it goes. My planets lack....realism. More like depth to it. Maybe I'm using wrong textures.
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Good luck! Let me know how it goes and don't hesitate to ask for help, if you need it
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Great tut. I'm still a newbie if it goes about space art and this tutorial will be for me very helpful for learning new things about making planets .
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k so i understand it all except where you make the atmosphere layer, then make a new layer and link them then merge them, that part makes no sense to me, its just extra steps that do nothing :S
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The goal of that step is to flatten the atmosphere layer. In the beginning, you have just a layer with the effects applied to it, but making a new layer, link it, and then marge it will make it a regular layer without the dynamic effects.
Let me know if you still don't understand
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it makes sense, but i dont have any merge linked layers, and when i merge it its still the same, i kept going anyways and it still works when i skipped the step so i guess its not vital.
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It's supposed to look exactly the same. When you apply a certain effect to a layer, the effects stay with the same parameters if you resize the layer. So, let's say that you add a glow of 10 to a ball that's 2 inches in diameter. Then you resize the ball. The glow will stay at 10, it won't grow in proportion to the ball.
Making a new layer and merging it will flatten everything and make resizing better. But now photoshop has the "smart object" tool which is very good, so I just make things into smart objects more often.
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Thank you!!!!
But when you're copying and pasting the base layer, what exactly are you doing?
The commands don't work on my program. o.O
Is there another way to do this step?
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What program are you using?
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Photoshop--it should have worked, but it didn't. However, I looked at other tutorials that explained it differently and got it
Thanks anyway!!
You're amazing 
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Awesome tutorial! Used it here: [link]
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thank you very much for this tutorial. it helped me a lot
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that's pretty cool! i've always loved astronomy but i oculd never make my space-related art look real enough. this helped a ton~ now if only i could get photoshop >_<; think you could do a turtorial like this but for gimp? ;x
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Glad to have helped
As for Gimp, I never really got around to learning it. But now that you know the basic technique, maybe you can crank something out?
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i'll give it a try sometime~ (:
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Hi
It looks really cool and realistic
I will use this in a new project on the
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awesome!
thanks a bunch for this amazing tutorial!
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i want to know the 3d option in photoshop cs 4, because it is newly introduce in cs4 the 3d option. i want to know details about 3d in
photoshop.
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I can't really help you in that department. I don't know much 3d in photoshop...yet.
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I followed your tutorial somewhat, yet I used an online photoshop-like program called Sumo Paint 2.0.
It came out like [link] and I;m gonna make more!
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THE GOD OF WAR APPROVES OF MY TUTORIAL!
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WOW BRO, ITS A GREAT TUTORIAL!!!
SPANISH: WOW HERMANO, ES UN GRAN TUTORIAL 
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really nice tutorial. thank you and well done.
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I used it!!!
A little...
[link]
Thanks so much!
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Im on the Atmosphere layer applying the blending options and they are not applying inside my sphere selection.
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But your newest deviation shows that you did alright...
Did you manage to figure it out or are you still stuck?
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I read some of the other comments and figured it out
Thank you
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I figured it out
[link]
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Awesome tutorial! I have to try it sometime!
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This tut is cool. I created my first planet in photoshop ^__^
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Good work! Were you able to move past that obstacle?
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I was.
Now to find some way to add a cloud layer to that planet, I'll keep you posted for the final result if you're interested.
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I'm at the part where I'm supposed to CTRL+Click the Base layer whilst having the shadow layer active, and then hit ctrl+c to copy. Somehow this doesnt work, the whole copy option is greyed out. :S
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