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Subject:	Re: Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
Newsgroups:	lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography
Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:58:42 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Daniel Jassim writes: > Here's a relatively easy way to make a planet: > ... > http://www.geekshelf.com/gallery/danjassim/MoreArtwork/easy.jpg So-- most planets tend to have little swirlies of continents, atmosphere, 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 that means most of the time it's got to be scaled WAY down from something huge in order to make *little* swirlies and the like. Any ideas on better ways to do that? I guess the way I'd probably do the shading would be to make the planet as a circle, complete with swirlies. Next make another layer on top that with a circular gradient from white to black-- overlay that on top of the planet, and lower the opacity until it looked "right". However, that also has the added effect of *lightening* part of the planet as well as darkening. Is there a way you know of to do a gradient from "transparent" to "color X"? DaveE

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		Re: Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
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)

		Re: Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
(...) 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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		Easy starfield, planet and star recipe
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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