Made a completely new SciFi digital art deviation. I just did it. Use a moon map from jht.cjb.net for the planet texture, and brushed up the rift. Pretty easy to do, but the planet is the real improvement over my other work, plus it's my first time really using blues.
It's the first one from the main page.
My deviantArt Homepage
Thanks if you take a look. Comment here or there if you have dA. Thanks!
Planet
Alright, here's the little tutorial. My planet was made like many others. It takes a texture (for example, the planet textures at http://jht.cjb.net). For this pic I used the moon one at 2k resolution because I was working at 1280x1024, and wasn't going to use the whole picture.
Start with a circular marquee, holding shift so you have a perfect circle, around a sector you think looks good. Control or command C, and make a new document. 1000x1000 is probably fine for most pics. White background to start with, then press Control/Command V. Now you should have a background layer and layer two. At this point, feel free to name it, I don't usually, and it gets me in trouble later on but I figure it out, Planet may be appropriate.
Control/Command Click on the layer of Planet, and get the selection. Make a new layer below it, and fill the circle black.
Go back to the planet layer, and go Filter-Distort-Spherize. Do it once at 100%, then again at a much lower percentage, like 15-30.
Now you can press Control/Command B on the planet layer, and colourize it to what you think looks good. I made the Shadows a dark blue to simulate an ocean, and the land a whitish-red, like ice with some red ground below it.
Now duplicate the black circle layer one up from the background, and move the duplicate to the top of the layer order. Double click on the layer. Activate Outer Glow and Inner glow. Set the blend mode to Normal and opacity to 100%. Set the size to around 20-30px (25 usually works good for me). Change the colour to something in the light blue area (Cxxxxx) and take note of this. In the inner glow section, set the blend mode to Normal and opacity to 100%. Set the size about 150px, and the colour to the one you chose above. Press ok, and take a look. Pretty good so far.
Rasterize the layer, by making a new one and linking them. Press Control/Command E to do it when they are linked. Change the blending mode to Screen.
Duplicate the lower black circle layer again, and bring it up again to the top. Go Filters-Blur-Gaussian Blur and set it to about 30. Then position it to cover the planet like my picture has it. Press Control/Command F when you have it right.
Now it's ready to be added to any picture you like. I'll do a background one at a later date, describing some brushing techniques maybe.
Stars
Select your background layer and fill it with black. Then go Filters-Noise-Add Noise. Have monochromatic selected, and have the amount around 10-15%. Use the second mode of it (radio button). Press ok. You should now have a decent starfield. You can follow some more of the advanced starfield tutorials if you'd like, but if your planet looks good or do something interesting in it, then it shouldn't be a problem.
It's the first one from the main page.
My deviantArt Homepage
Thanks if you take a look. Comment here or there if you have dA. Thanks!
Planet
Alright, here's the little tutorial. My planet was made like many others. It takes a texture (for example, the planet textures at http://jht.cjb.net). For this pic I used the moon one at 2k resolution because I was working at 1280x1024, and wasn't going to use the whole picture.
Start with a circular marquee, holding shift so you have a perfect circle, around a sector you think looks good. Control or command C, and make a new document. 1000x1000 is probably fine for most pics. White background to start with, then press Control/Command V. Now you should have a background layer and layer two. At this point, feel free to name it, I don't usually, and it gets me in trouble later on but I figure it out, Planet may be appropriate.
Control/Command Click on the layer of Planet, and get the selection. Make a new layer below it, and fill the circle black.
Go back to the planet layer, and go Filter-Distort-Spherize. Do it once at 100%, then again at a much lower percentage, like 15-30.
Now you can press Control/Command B on the planet layer, and colourize it to what you think looks good. I made the Shadows a dark blue to simulate an ocean, and the land a whitish-red, like ice with some red ground below it.
Now duplicate the black circle layer one up from the background, and move the duplicate to the top of the layer order. Double click on the layer. Activate Outer Glow and Inner glow. Set the blend mode to Normal and opacity to 100%. Set the size to around 20-30px (25 usually works good for me). Change the colour to something in the light blue area (Cxxxxx) and take note of this. In the inner glow section, set the blend mode to Normal and opacity to 100%. Set the size about 150px, and the colour to the one you chose above. Press ok, and take a look. Pretty good so far.
Rasterize the layer, by making a new one and linking them. Press Control/Command E to do it when they are linked. Change the blending mode to Screen.
Duplicate the lower black circle layer again, and bring it up again to the top. Go Filters-Blur-Gaussian Blur and set it to about 30. Then position it to cover the planet like my picture has it. Press Control/Command F when you have it right.
Now it's ready to be added to any picture you like. I'll do a background one at a later date, describing some brushing techniques maybe.
Stars
Select your background layer and fill it with black. Then go Filters-Noise-Add Noise. Have monochromatic selected, and have the amount around 10-15%. Use the second mode of it (radio button). Press ok. You should now have a decent starfield. You can follow some more of the advanced starfield tutorials if you'd like, but if your planet looks good or do something interesting in it, then it shouldn't be a problem.
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