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Summary: Use Photoshop blur tool to create atmosphere. 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 finish creating our atmosphere we've got going on here. As we can see, we have, we've already taken this and given this a nice motion blur on our clouds here, so let's go up here, and what we're going to do is let's blur this out a little bit more. Let's go to blur, let's give this some gauzy and blur, just a little bit. Let's give it a radius of about four. There we go, just enough to take it out just a little bit. Now lets, you know what, we need to actually wrap this around our planet, so let's go to, let's go to distort, and let's do spherize a little bit, and of course we're going to do our favorite spherize around, oops, just drag this around. Let's give this a let's mock this down a little bit. That's a hundred percent. Let's see what fifty percent looks like. Fifty percent doesn't look too bad. I like that. So now, let's take the blending mode of this. Let's go down here, and drop this down to, let's drop it down to screen. There we go; it's looking pretty good. Let's go ahead, and let's re-brighten this up a little bit. Let's go to image, adjustments, let's do bright and contrast. Let's see how we're going to do this. Let's do this at a brightness of zero. Let's do our contrast at see what fifty looks like. Not bad, let's see what sixty looks like. A little bit better, we'll hit it here. Now we're looking pretty good, so let's, let's knock the opacity down just a bit, so we can actually see our land through here. Let's knock it down some. It's looking all right. Let's actually bring this up just a little bit more. Let's leave it like this for right now. We're going to call it here, and you know what? We're going to move on to the next part."
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