How to create earth in photoshop, tutorial?

[Niloy]

hi quantum
how can I create earth & planet in photoshop?
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[quantum]

Hi Niloy,
Creating a planet in photoshop from scratch can be a little tricky. Nevertheless let us see if we can make a planet out of nothing! On the otherhand, it can be really easy if you used a plug in like Luner Cell. Anyway,

1. Create a new document 400 by 300 dimension with a white background.

2. Choose the Gradient tool from the options window strip. Choose Radial style and Chrome Preset.

3. Drag the pointer from the upper left corner to the center of the canvas.

4. Use Image--Adjust--Invert ( ctrl+I) to reverse the color. And you have a nice planet with a rich halo!

5. Now play with Edit--Adjust--Hue/Saturation little bit to get a softer color halo effect. I used this settings:
Edit: Blues.
Hue: +180
Saturation: -45
Lightness: -30

5. Let us spice up the atmosphere little bit. Choose a dark brown color, like R94, G80, B76, for the foreground color.

6. Apply Filter--Rander--Clouds. The cloud will completely obliterate the everything else. But Don't panick.

7. Use Edit--Fade and reduce the cloud fill to approximately 27% and you have a nice subtle variation in the luminisity of the halo.

8. Save the file as a psd file. Like planet.psd.

May be later I will show you how to add nebulas and comets to your planet in photoshop!
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[Niloy]

Thanks Quantum ,
The tutorial of creating a planet in photoshop which you gave me that was great helpful to me. Now I can create planet by using your formula. Though it was very tricky for me.
Anyway you said that you will show me how to add nebulas and comets to my planet in photoshop. If you showed this I would be greatful to you.

Niloy
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[Niloy]

Hellow Quantum,

How are you. This is strange looking that you don't response my topics. I hope you will response it also show me how to add nebulas and comets to my planet in photoshop.
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[Nishi]

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[quantum]

Niloy,

Sorry, I forgot to chk out this part of the forum. Here it goes.

1. Open planet.psd from previous tutorial. Create a new layer. Change foreground color to white, background color to gray blue ( R144, G169, B197). Filter-Render-Cloud. It will again cover the entire image beneath. But don't panick.

2. Change the blending mode for the cloud layer to Soft Light, keep the opacity to 100%.

3. Working on cloud layer, Filter-Distort-Twirl. Set the angle to 950. Click Ok. And here, we have a nice spiral nebula!

4. Make an eliptical selection with the center of the twirl as the center of the selection. Make sure the Father is set to 25 at the tool bar! Select a fair sample of the twirl so that it does look like one.

5. Invert the selection, Select-Invert. And press Delete/Edit-Clear.

6. Deselect everything.

7. Working on cloud layer, use Filter-Distort-Shear to angle the nebula and give it an illusion of distance. In the Shear panel follow the settings in the following image for angle and select the Reapeat Edge Pixels.

8. Change the Blending mode to Hard light, and reduce thn the layer's opacity to 72%. It will make the nebula appear more realistic.

9. Make a layer mask. Layer-Add Layer Mask-Reveal All.

10. Choose the Linear Gradient tool, with Black/White Preset. Drag a gradient from the upper-left of the spiral, through the center, to the lower right corner.

11. Flatten the image. Layer-Flatten.

Alright we got a planet and a nebula here. Next we will have the cosmos sparkle! So... :idea:
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[Niloy]

Thanks Quantum,


For remembering me and answering my question. Now I will try to create nebulas and comets to my planet in photoshop. Oh quantum what is the cosmos sparkle!
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