Summary: Begin new Photoshop group to create new planet. 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 space scene and we have our sun. Now we need something for our sun to shine on and let's create a little planet here. Let's go all Bob Ross and get a happy little planet going, so what we're going to do is we're going to start us, let's start with a new group. We'll just go ahead hit a group here and create a new layer and let's go ahead and name this group. Let's name this group "Planet one", there we go and let's go ahead and get our selection tool out arrow's on the "m" for "marquee tool". Let's just go ahead and create us a circle here we're going to hold down shift so we get a proper size circle. Just go ahead and move it up to the center like so and now let's, let's go ahead and in this first layer here we're going to create some water. So let's go ahead and hit filter and let's render some clouds, there we go and also go ahead and rename this layer "water" just to keep it all concise. There we go, let's pause right here and we'll pick this up on the next layer, on the next part."
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