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Summary: Adjusting color of clouds and using Photoshop difference filter. Learn how create and render a space scene in this free computer graphics tutorial from a Photoshop professional.
Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more
"Now we have our nebula clouds up and running, but they're kind of boring just white. That's not really pretty, so we want to add some color to this. So, what we're going to do is we're going to come over to our screen here, and since I have nebula clouds 1, let's go ahead, and add another layer here. We're going to call this one, let's go ahead and click on this; change the name here. There we go; we're going to call this one nebula clouds 2. There we go. Now, what we're going to do is we're just going to render some clouds here, but we're going to render some colored clouds, so let's go ahead, and hit x here. Now we have black down here, and we have white up here. So, let's get us another color. Let's get us a nice; in all those spacey scenes it looks like the nebula clouds are some kind of a turquoise mixed in with it. Maybe something like there we go, that looks good. We'll also go ahead, and go filter, let's go ahead and render; render some more clouds. There we go, now this is looking pretty good. So, let's do a difference clouds on this as well, just to give it a little more texture. Difference clouds once. We'll hit command F to do it one more time. There we go. This is a nice color; this is like all the paintings you see, and pictures from the Hubble Telescope. So now what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead, and adjust this layer as well, and this will adjust the layer underneath. We'll come down here, and let's play with this a little bit. Hit down, there we go. Look at that, now it's starting to pop. Now it's starting to look really good. Let's take these down just a little bit more, like so. Now we're starting to get that color that we're looking for in our clouds. Let's back this up just a little bit. That looks pretty good. I think I'm going to leave it right here for right now. All right, so we'll stop here, and we'll pick this up in the next part."
eHow Article: Coloring Nebula Clouds for Photoshop Space Scene