Tutorial: Photorealistic planet creation in Photoshop

[Chruser]

Well, it's definitely not my tutorial, but it's certainly worth mentioning. It's one of the absolutely best planetary tutorials I've ever found, and if you have a bit of spare time, feel free to complete it and post your results on Zelaron.

Here's the tutorial:
http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_planet.html

And here's my result after completing the tutorial (which didn't take especially long):

http://www.zelaron.com/gear/geotroph.jpg

[Eddie_Perez]

Wow, that looks professional...

[!King_Amazon!]

Would this be a tutorial for newbs? I just downloaded Photoshop 7.0, and I gave up on trying to do anything with it. If anyone has any more tutorials or is willing to teach me, I'd appreciate it.

[Chruser]

Well, it's not exactly a "click the button on your bottom right to create a new layer", but it's fairly simple if you know the basics of photoshop anyway. :)

[!King_Amazon!]

I barely know how to open a photo on photoshop.

[Tai]

Oooh that sounds like fun, I'll try it later.

[Randuin]

Chruser, Congratulations you've finally admited in using a tutorial

[Kuja]

Well here my result :D


http://www.iownjoo.com/freeimghost/kuja/planet-result.jpg

[!King_Amazon!]

I can't even figure out how to make the fuggin circle >.<

[Kuja]

Well for the circle it s quite easy When you load photoshop you should see your toolbar on the left the icon your looking for is something that look like a square.

Left click on it and hold you will see a circle select it then you can doing your circle where you want by doing left click and dragging till good size after that you put the color but you should try to learn the basic of the program before doing the planet some experiencing wouldnt hurt dont try to make anything just know what thing does.

[vec]

heh king amazon just doodle around in photoshop... you will get the hang of it...

[!King_Amazon!]

It makes me want to shoot myself. Who are you?

[Kuja]

It makes me want to shoot myself.

This could be interesting. :killgrin:

hehe for start you could go Here (http://www.vtc.com/productdetail.php?sku=33329&dealercode=A337)

Whit that you should be able to understand the basic of photoshop whitout any problem.

[Chruser]

http://www.3dbuzz.com

Sign up and get their video training modules. They have video tutorials for a lot of applications like Photoshop, 3dsmax, combustion, motionbuilder, softimage, etc.

[vec]

oh man.. heh i been at zelaron for a while... i just haven't posted for a while...

[Jamesadin]

Yeah, I remember you doing all the vecphotos. ;)

[symnzXx]

Here's my result. I call it.. Arctika!

[symnzXx]

Update: Added some stars, contrasted...

[JiDDaR]

That's my leech result:

[Chruser]

Really cool planet Jiddar, although I'd fade out / remove the atmosphere a bit from the bottom to the right.

[6InchBluePony]

JiDDaR, why does the picture you have, and the picture frome the site given by Chruser look EXACTLY the same, and have EXACTLY the same file size? (answer me that!)

[!King_Amazon!]

He said he ripped it.

[quikspy67]

Chursers looks the most realistic.

[Wiccan][V][asta]

Well, it's not as I totally intended it to because I was rushing to post it, but here it is: (For some reason it said the filesize was too large, even though it isn't.)

http://davidhosting.20m.com/WiccanPlanet.jpg

[NonGayMan]

Oh my God! These look like the planets on SWG!

[Acer]

These are pretty cool, I like how you threw in flare effect

[Wiccan][V][asta]

Thanks, I had a really nice nebula to put in there also, but unfortounatly, it didn't look good wherever I put it. :(