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Greetings! Here's a simple starfield recipe for Photoshop: - Make a new document, 720 X 480 pixels, 300 dpi, Mode: Grayscale - Go to your Tool Palette and grab your Paint Bucket tool and fill the canvas with black - Go to Filter, then Texture, then (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
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In lugnet.space, Daniel Jassim writes: ... (...) . . . (...) looks wrong. The lit spot is too small, unless the star is tiny, and practically on top of the planet. Perhaps you need to drag the gradient circle just a bit further if you start at the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Thank you for your suggestions. I was trying to keep this recipe as basic as possible--sort of an intro for those who haven't tried this. Thus, that particular picture was not an exercise in astronomical accuracy but more for simply using the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Actually Dan, I've been taking the Jassim Starfield (and Galaxy) tutorial and have been more than pleased with the resulting galactic backdrops. It's saved me scouring the 'Net and stealing other people's images. Thanks kindly, Teach! Cheers, -G (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Actually my "more accurate rendering" was done with pencil and paper. I suppose I could scan it. As for astronomical accuracy, I just thought somewhere in the back of my mind that the lit spot on the planet was somehow different from the way (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) etc. In the past, to make those sorts of things, Ive used the 'render clouds', then distorted the image in various ways. Of course that always entails ugly amounts of work since the cloud rendering always has that same sparse fractal dimension (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Clouds are tricky. I haven’t figured out the best way to render them yet, but take a look at this pic: (URL) that type of “cracked and craggy” planet is a lesson by itself—I’ll get to that in another post. Anyway, for those clouds, what I did was: (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) One of the controls you can also use is the sphereize filter in the Distort menu. That will allow you to create or drop in a scan of a continent and stuff. From there you define a circular area (Shift circle to get a perfect circle)and then (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Thanks, Gil! It's my pleasure to share this with everyone and help get the creative juices flowing and gather input to improve my techniques. I'll try to keep the info coming. I know I'd like to go over how to make a canyonesque planet but I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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