Creating Stars for Photoshop Space Scene

Series Summary

There was a time when the creation of a drop shadow in Photoshop necessitated a physics degree and three advanced courses in technical manual lingo. But thanks to the continuing advances of this outstanding software, such a Herculean feat can now be accomplished with the press of a button. Just tell the program a few basic parameters, press enter, and then adjust your handiwork as you watch it change. Perhaps this and other advances explained in this series will not change the world, but for graphic designers and production artists, the revolution has begun!

As a professional photoshop user demonstrates in this computer design tutorial, now you can easily create an impressive space scene by watching these clear and concise how-to videos. You will learn how to create star clusters, clouds, planets and suns in these videos. Robert will tell you what tools and filters you should be using each step of the way. Starting with a blank screen, you will soon have a galaxy on your computer monitor.

Video Transcript

"To start off with our space scene, we are going to need to start with a background. So, on our screen here we see that we have got Photoshop open here. Let us create a new document and let us change this document. Let us do this 1280 by 768. I think that is our screen resolution right there. Resolution, we will bring this up at 300. Hit okay. There we go. There is our start right here. Now, what we are going to do is we are going to come over here and we are going to hit "D" and get our black up. And what we are going to do is just fill our screen up with black. There we go. Now let us just go over here to our window. Let us go ahead and create a new layer first. And let us go ahead and filter, render some. Actually, no, let us add some noise. Ah. Because there is nothing in the area. Well let us do it on the background then. Actually, let us just build this first layer up first. There we go. Now, let us add some noise. Noise. Add noise. There we go. Now, we can sit around and we can play with some settings around here, but what we are going to do is pause here, and we will pick this up in the next section."