My First "real" Artwork.
CplDavis
I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
<div class="IPBDescription">BIG picture</div> Hi everyone, I got PS7 today, so a little upgrade from PS 6 which i was using before,
I started to read some tutorials and I tinkered around for 7 hours and I finaly came up with this.
Ive done a lot of "photoshop hacks" but ive never really made anything totaly my own from absolutly nothing, so here goes.
My favorite part was getting the surface of the planet to actually look 3 demensional.
I had to save it as a level 7 quality .jpeg to get it to fit for the NS forums so its kinda fuzzy here.
Im still working on the nebula aspects.
What do you guys think? Where do I need to put more work/impove on?
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I started to read some tutorials and I tinkered around for 7 hours and I finaly came up with this.
Ive done a lot of "photoshop hacks" but ive never really made anything totaly my own from absolutly nothing, so here goes.
My favorite part was getting the surface of the planet to actually look 3 demensional.
I had to save it as a level 7 quality .jpeg to get it to fit for the NS forums so its kinda fuzzy here.
Im still working on the nebula aspects.
What do you guys think? Where do I need to put more work/impove on?
Thoughts please <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Oh and at the middle/bottom, there is a subtle shadow of a larger planet. I like that!
nah, I made the planet and the rings in 2 separate files, I used similar colors from the example in the tutorial.
It looks like a copy paste b/c I copied my planet layer onto my main star map layer.
Unfortunately for me I made a newby mistake and I had made my planet over a black backdrop on the same layer. So after I pasted I had to erase/dematt as best I could around the planet and rings.
>_<
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Sweet dude! You really made that yourself??? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
yea yea I made it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Here is more proof lol for those wondering about my sloppy planet transfer.
See pic. (I think I looks like the Mars planet fromt he DOOM 3 trailer lol minus the rings. I used a nice texture fro the planetand then played around with 2 more layers to make the "highs" and "lows" of the sphereised texture stand out to look like actual terrain.
If I had wanted too after I could have dropped another picture on there of a city from space view and make it look like there are areas filled with a large futuristic cities.
Anyways, I just did the Star map first, then the Planet, then the Planet Rings, then the Nebula all separately then I just layered everything over on top of the star map.
Sweet dude! You really made that yourself???
Better quality:
<img src='http://www.freewebs.com/bladmand/sphere3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
And Davis, otherwise very pretty picture but the upper right corner lens-flare seems to be little out of place. It doesn't seem to fit in for some reason. Maybe reduce glow and add a few brighter streaks to make it look better.
I love the planet (especially rings) and the backgroung stars!
Very nice peace of art!
It's a little bigger than my desktop and I got it at 1600x1200... I can't imagine what this would look like on 1024x768 or under.