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Summary: Using linear dodge Photoshop tool to adjust planets. 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're going to move in a different direction with for our rock planet. What we're going to do is we're going to paint in our texture on this one, so if we take a look here we can see I have my planet here. What I'm going to do is I got my paintbrush up and it's a rather large brush like this and I've set my setting to linear dodge. I've also set my opacity at 30 percent, now you can just key in your opacity by reaching over to your number tool and just clicking like I clicked 100 there, let's just change it back to 30. Just as you type it in you don't have to type enter or anything it just reads your numbers, so what we're going to do is we're going to say the sun is going to stay here in this lower position that I've put it at. So let's go ahead and lighten this up some, like the sun is going to be shining from the bottom here so there we go. There we go that's a nice texture we got going on here, let's fill in just a little bit more back in here, there we go giving it just a little bit there, there we go. Now what we're going to do, we've we got it where we want it and we're going to see where we're going to place it because of where the lights going to be at, so we'll just go with it from right there. Now let's, let's actually pause."
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