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Published: 2009-03-02 00:23:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 32669; Favourites: 729; Downloads: 1235
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A Starfield Tutorial is finally up.Not much to say here really, this is how I make my stars, atleast the basics of it. This is really no "new things" at all. it's basicly all the things people probably have done for years 'n years but since the starfield tutorials out here today, most of 'em, only keeps explaining with the noise fields and flares and whatnot I thought It could be good to put this down on paper.
I think it's fairly clean in terms of spelling and such.
There's a lot of text so get your reading glasses on and let's go!
Created in CS4. Wacom, Volito2
Enjoy!
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Copyright Β© 2009, Robin de Blanche. All rights reserved. My images may not be reproduced in any form without my written permission.
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Great tutorial! this is my outcome: [link]
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I used your tutorial, which is wonderful and simple, and just made a little practice starfield. I would love it if you could look at it and give me some constructive criticism? haha but be nice this was my first try...
[link]
Thank you for the great tutorial
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Its a good start but you need to play around more with variation and contrast.
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ok thanks I'll keep that in mind
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Brilliant. Came here from and found it to be one of the best I've seen.
Thank you for the tutorial, and I'm going to use it to improve my work.
Now off to explore the rest of your gallery!
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Glad you found it useful, thanks!
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Hi there,
remember us? 
We don't usually notify long-time members, but it's been over a year since we put your other tutorial [link] in our gallery so I thought I'd just give you a heads-up in case you don't want your work displayed there anymore.
Anyhow, it's a lovely tutorial and as beautifully presented as your other one. Thank you very much for writing it! (I remember those lens flare star field tuts too 
Sincerely,
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Hello, I'm familiar with you guys, thanks for sharing around the knowledge. You doing a good thing for the community
/rob
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I found my own method to doing the star fields and such, but I like your approach and idea.
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glad you found some informatin useful.
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I've just used your tutorials for touchups and improvements on a piece I'm now working on. The difference is HUGE! Thanks!
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I'm glad I could help out
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I used some of your techniques in this piece: [link]
Thanks for the tutorial!
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Used some of your techniques in my scene here: [link]
Thanks for the tutorial
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I'm happy if I can help out a bit,
/Rob
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People who make tutorials should be given medals!
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Awesome tutorial, but I felt like when you got the the background you just kind of rushed through it. How did you do that background?
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Thanks. The tutorial is only for the stars and not the background. That's only added to view the stars better.
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Understandable. Thanks for the reply!
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Nice tutorial but the spelling isn't really all that clean
I do have a question. I'm working on a piece that's 3840x2400 meaning that I have a lot of room. How do I guarentee a reasonable level of randomness? It's hard to be random :\ is It ok to use a noise map just as a reasonable placeholder to generate proper randomness or do noise maps pattern up at such large sizes?
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I know the spelling aint all that good ;D, wrote it late night and sometimes the fingers goes faster than the mind hehe.
The bad thing about noise maps is that it's all very close together in position.
I know random is hard to "create".
The trick I think is to only "make the damn stars" and when you've done a couple, start copying the ones you've made.
A thing many do wrong is that when they copy+paste the stars they just do it simple and don't rotate/rezise it anything which will lead you getting a pattern-ed starfield which can easily be read as repetitive.
/rob
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I tried to compromise a bit. I added some extra entropy to the brush by setting scattering and spacing to as high as they'll go and then just threw tiny stars all over the place. But afterwards, rather than repainting them I just duplicated the layer, set the top one to linear dodge, blurred the bottom one to a nice glowy look and then duplicated the unblurred layer a few more times to make the stars pop out. I didn't add any bigger stars because they would have, in my opinion, detracted from the rest of the scene. Anyway, here's the final result [link] I think it turned out to be a rather reasonable hybrid of your technique and layer cleverness.
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I'm glad you found it somewhat useful to keep work with
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10/10 Love the tutorial, I really should get photoshop installed. Tutorials like these make me want to start again! ;[
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Sounds like a good idea
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Again, another wonderful tutorial!
I kept looking for a high quality starfield tutorial and happily found one here. thanks!!
Used it here Link
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Excellent tutorial, Robin.
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Excellent looking tutorial! I look forward to some photoshop play to try out some of your pointers soon!
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Grym tutorial, vet tyvΓ€rr inte om jag kommer att testa den, kanske kan gΓΆra nΓ₯gon grym arch-viz sci-fi 
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this will come in handy for me ._. thank you!
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I got my Wacom yesterday, and tried it out today! great tutorial
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