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Summary: Use Photoshop difference cloud feature to create land on planet surface. 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 ocean layer on our planet. Let's go ahead and give it a little bit of land. As we can see here, we have our land layer selected. Let's go ahead and "Alt-Click" here to reselect our-there we go. "Option-Click," my fault. Or, I mean, Command-Click. There we go. Now we selected our land layer. Let's go ahead, and let's render some clouds here. Let's go ahead and hit "Render, Clouds." There we go. Hmm. Let's see. Let's hit Command-F to get something I kind of like, and I don't really like any of these too much, because this is all renders. This is all-it all does this based on a randomization code. So, ok. This looks good here. So, let's-alright. Now let's do a difference cloud. So, let's go ahead and hit "Fade, Render-Filter, Render, Difference Clouds." There we go. That looks pretty good. Let's hit Command-F again to get some islands going on here. That looks really good right there. Now what we're going to do is, let's go ahead and let's sphereize this. Let's go ahead and "Filter, Stylize." Or not "Stylize." Hmm, where did it go? Let's see. "Filter, Distort." That's what I'm looking for. "Sphereize," there we go. Do it at a hundred percent. There we go. Now we've got a lot going on here, a lot of this here. So, let's stop here."
eHow Article: Creating Land for Photoshop Space Scene