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Regulus36 — Starfield Brush Tutorial
Published: 2010-09-10 22:31:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 7579; Favourites: 122; Downloads: 352
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I've had a few questions lately on how I create my starfields, so I thought this should help. This tutorial shows you how to create your own PS brush to paint groups of stars. Many of you experts out there will have already figured this method out, but I hope someone can learn a little something from it
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Thank you for making this tutorial. I've been fascinated with space art recently, but had no idea where to start.
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Holy swiss cheese... 
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I use a similar method from time to time. Only the brush(es) I create has 3 stars in it, far from each other and with different sizes. Makes the randomness even greater and at less an effort.
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Good idea, I think it's time to make some more brushes
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nice to see a tut that doesn't use the noise technique. good job. I could never figured out how to make a good starfield other than 1 pixel at a time, or using a brush set I had downloaded.
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Thanks, not a big fan of noise stars myself, so i decided to share this ... also I posted a starfield brush set if you're interested 
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Awesome! With this I should be able to take my starfields to the next level.
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Nice tutorial! The first way I learnt was through the noise filter.. But I prefer this way.
I edited the first star (Figure A) into different sizes and made a starfield on each layer for each size. So with the different layers.. with their own starfields to what size they belong.. Layer 1 with a 10% starfield.. Layer 2 with a 5% starfield.. Layer 3 with a 2%... 1% and 0.5%.. Making a brush for each layer so I can use them collectively.
I also used a formula for the amount of stars... Say about 10 10% stars. 50 5% stars. 200 2% stars. 1000 1% stars and I don't know about the 0.5% ones 
Sorry if I have confused you but I just wondered what you thought of the idea.
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Glad you like it! I like this way better than the noise way too, it gives you way more control and it looks much more natural.
It sounds like it is pretty much the same method, only i didn't stick to any formula, i just put them in almost at random. You want to stay away from anything that could appear repetitive 
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It would be very hard to tell the repetitive-ness of a star background but I do see what you mean
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