Summary: Use Photoshop spherize filter to round planet edges. 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
"Well now, let's continue creating the ocean for our little planet. As we can see here, we've got it all set up here. We've already rendered the clouds, so let's go ahead and let's distort this a little bit, let's round this out a little bit. So, let's go to, let's go to filter, distort, let's do, what should we do, let's do a spherize. There we go, rounding it out a bit, and we're just going to take it all the way up to a hundred percent. Now if we back this out, we can see in our preview window exactly what it's going to look like. So this is it before, this is it after. So, we'll go ahead and hit okay. There we go, now it almost has a round shape to it. Now that it's spherized, let's go ahead, and let's blur this a bit. So let's go filter, blur; let's gauzy and blur this a bit, and let's say we blur this let's see about, let's see what twenty does for us. Yeah, that's pretty ocean like. Let's go ahead, and hit okay on that. Well, you know what? Let’s take it down just a little bit, Naa, twenty was the right scale; let's go ahead and leave it like that. There we go; we're getting good and started on our ocean here, so we're going to stop here, and we'll pick this up on the next part."
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