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Macca

Macca

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Sorry not had time to make another tutorial, will try and do it tomorow.

So I've had a quick 5 minute play about in PS and came up with (what I think are the best ways to create a habital planet). There are 2 main ways to create habital looking planets, one using the colour range option (thats the one I cocked up), and the other is through brushing. The best result is probably from brushing, but they've both got sort of different looks to them.

I'll also maybe chuck in some ideas about Suns and stuff, but that'll probably just be off the cuff improvisation so no promises about the final results :p.
 
Macca

Macca

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OK so I think I've came up with a pretty good technique for making habital planets. The best thing about this method I've made is that you can use the Planet you've just made in my last tutorial over and over again and it never looks the same. It also takes a couple of minutes to transform it from Non-habital to Habital. Heres a couple I just made there:

planethabitalcopypl2.jpg
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habitalplanet2copypl9.jpg


and thats all from the original Image you see on the first page of this thread.
 
Traxata

Traxata

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Nice Macca, and may i ask how you did it ? :p, I'm guessing its just some extra colour overlays ?

Or is there a tutorial in the works ? :D
 
Macca

Macca

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I'm going to make a tutorial when I have time, it's gotta do with Selecting certain parts of the Planet and Adding colour to them, then playing about with adjustment layers, such as curves, brightness contrast, levels and such :).
 
Macca

Macca

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Planet Tutorial Part 2 - Habital Planets

So I finally got round to making the 2nd part of the tutorial... which utilises the first part and lets you create more habital/habitable planets. So here it is, hope you learn something:

http://files.filefront.com/Habital+Planet+Tutrar/;8777252;/fileinfo.html

Edit: I've also stuck the 4 habitable planets that I made whilst creating this technique up on the gallery... so feel free to use them for your project if there suitable :).
 
Traxata

Traxata

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Well, the only other thing is making an actual climate system so to speak, I'm trying to do my own sort of climate and how dabble at some changes to how Macca's done the habitable surfaces.

For the climate i think i can use that texture i have for the Sun, and paint that on top in a white/grey sort of colour to make that :)
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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Yeah, that one is much improved in overall feel.

A thought: the dark shadow should have a curved edge because of the curvature of the planet.
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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Indeed. The planet feel of these is improving all the time. However, I feel the cloud cover is a bit "hazy". There's thin cloud everywhere rather than patches of thicker cloud and cloud breaks. Reason I mention that is because that sort of planet reduced to a 60x60 pixel image (for my purposes) might look washed out due to the cloud cover.

As an example:

a11earth.jpg
 
Macca

Macca

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A really easy way to make clouds is:
>> make a new layer above your planet layer
>> Get a big grunge brush.
>> start brushing with white where you roughly want the clouds to be.
>> Ctrl+click that layer.
>> Filter > Render Clouds (with a grey and white colour selected).
>> Then play about with the swirl and ripple filters.

I always miss something out on my tutorials :p.
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

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For my purposes, 60x60 looks awesome. Remember that I may wish to fit 8-10 of these in the length of an A4 page with text and other markings on and around them.

What I think your helpful resizes have told me, though, is that the darkness shadow should probably be quite small and strong colour contrast is probably a really good thing. Your planet has come out quite subtle and I wonder if that would be lost when put alongside other items.
 
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Gombol

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Macca said:
A really easy way to make clouds is:
>> make a new layer above your planet layer
>> Get a big grunge brush.
>> start brushing with white where you roughly want the clouds to be.
>> Ctrl+click that layer.
>> Filter > Render Clouds (with a grey and white colour selected).
>> Then play about with the swirl and ripple filters.

I always miss something out on my tutorials :p.
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omg, make your own brushes man! >_< :P
 
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