[Hollywood]

Needed something for a modern art class I am taking and whipped this up today, figured I'd post it here for the flames.

[img]http://img90.exs.cx/img90/9215/10-Final.gif[/img]

[imported_Grim_Reaper]

i like it. itd be better if it wasnt so bright but its still good

[elstatec]

nice mang but im not into emo.

[Maplegyver]

Originally Posted by elstatec

nice mang but im not into emo.

ahhashahsahsa

[Judas]

[quote="Mr. maple":fd55a]

Originally Posted by elstatec

nice mang but im not into emo.

ahhashahsahsa[/quote:fd55a]

^

nice, but id like to see the original to see what you did to it.

[Zen]

Very Awsome man.

I'm with Judas, how much of this did you make?

Is it based off of Greg Martin's tuts?

[Sirus]

Originally Posted by elstatec

nice mang but im not into emo.

rofl

[Hollywood]

A lot of what I've learned is from tutorials, but I took what I've learned over the years in photoshop and used it for this piece.

I will post the numerous psd's I have when I get home so you guys can see how I did it. I basically used 3 layers for the star field, and used various blending options to get them to come out the way they did. One layer was for the brighter stars, one for the smaller ones. I just created a random pattern of noise and then erased what I didn't need. Then by changing the contrast and levels I got the base star field.

Then I used various airbrush sizes set at anywhere between 20-35 opacity to create the gas fields. I used the same texture I used for the planet actually, and when I was satisfied I changed all of the levels to match the blue scheme. The lense flares where 108mm, set at a low brightness and then I used the levels again to match the blues. That was pretty much it for the stars, although it did take a while to finish.

The planet was made up from the circle marquee tool. I created a perfect circle on top of a black base layer. Using blending I created 3 different layers, one for the atmosphere and one for the texture. Inner and outter blur was used for the atmospheric glow. I used the clone tool around the textures on teh planet surface to get the look I wanted. Then I erased what I didn't want creating the shadow effect.

Oh the planet was colored with a large 200pt airbrush with 20 opacity, then filled in a little more. Gaussian blur was used before the texture was applied. Then a couple of filters where used for the chrome effect on the planet's surface.

I could go on and on, but everything is original. Nothing was copied from another picture, and it took me about 4 hours to complete without a break. I could have done more but I didn't feel like dedicating any more time to the project. Like I said I'll post whatever PSD's I have left so you guys can chek it out and mess around if you want.

[Zen]

Yeah, I love this stuff. I made some of these once upon a time.

Great Tutorials for this kind of work:

http://www.artofgregmartin.com/

[Apocalypse | NoW]

Wow, that stuff is amazing.

[newt.]

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/johncrichton4881/cataclysm2_1600.jpg[/img]

[fujimi7su]

nice job holly

that used to be my wallpaper newt

only idea for improvement is to tone down the light, and give it a source of some kind.. maybe a sun-like star or something

[Conscript]

Originally Posted by Hollywood

I'll let that one slide because I know you would never say that to my face.

[Judas]

[img]http://s92915907.onlinehome.us/Sigs/ethugn_1.jpg[/img]

[Conscript]

Originally Posted by Judas

[img]http://s92915907.onlinehome.us/Sigs/ethugn_1.jpg[/img]

Send me the PSD of that..I want to mod it so i can use it on another forum with smaller sig limits rock: