Create a new planet TUTORIAL

i wanna share about how to create planet or city circle

tutorial about :

- city circle trick

- sky effect includes stars, sun, and clouds

its very simple, please follow my instruction, dont ask what its for, you will know after you finish it.

googling city landscape. open PS selection sky in the picture and delete, look at picture above

 after delete sky, selection the right side and pres CTRL+J (copy selection layer) then pres CTRL+T (transform) left click flip horizontal and move to the left side. erase on the water and building using eraser tool brush setting 0% hardnes, look at picture above

transform layer pres CTRL+T and left click flip vertical, move to the top.

 this is final step for create city circle. filter >distort >polar coordinate >mark on rectangular >ok

 pres CTRL+T set to round

this is funy step, us ur imagination to create your own world. erase useless image.

[crate sky] create new layer for background. fill with gradiend tool. look at picture above, see on layer 6.

again, create new layer above layer background, fill with black. and click filter >noise >add noise mark on uniform and monochrome set amount 10-25% >ok

setting level on layer sky pres CLRL+L, use ur sense to make a stars >ok

set blending mode screen. ok you finished to crate stars

 how to create light (sun)

create new layer fill with black click on filter >render >lensflare set position and size ok

set blending mode to screen. (about layer position is up to you)

pres CTRL+J copy layer sun CTRL+T set size

 this is last step how to make a clods. i really sorry because my photshop erorr but ill show you how to make a clouds

- cereate new layer

- filter >render >clouds set blending mode screen

- CTRL+L setting level black and white clouds

 - filter >blur >radial blur mark on spin, ok

FINISH

use ur imagination for better finishing.

u can using other element for your planet. tree, plane around planet, planet ring, etc

simple creation sky effect use trick above,
element :
stars (noise monochromatic)
sun (render lensflare) blending screen
clouds (render clouds) blending screen
colour (brush or light effect) blending soft light

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