Planetary Experiment 4th planet made so far...

[Maybe Skate Team 0]

Wow, I really thought you made that with 3ds max... But doing it with photoshop would just be amazing! How did you map the earth to look 3d? or was the picture you used already 3d-like?

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I believe you make a flat image and that shaded with proper shading methods to make the item 3-d or in this case a sphere.

 

On you last piece the stars need a lot of work, shade then so the actually have the star shape but fade a little into the dark space. Also instead of duplicating the earth all the time, maybe change the color of it to maybe copper to represent Mars? Just a suggestion, I never really had interest in making these but they are some great eye candy!

[zorlen 0]

I met with yet another setback. Turns out that a free account on Ripway can only upload 5 MBs in one sitting, meaning that I can't upload them in one zipped folder. Hopefully they will be small enough when seperate to host there. Also, I made another version of the starfield using the planet, but I'll be posting it in the other thread that I made.

For how I got them to look 3-d using only photoshop, Yes shading was a big part of it, but I also used a filter called "sphereize" that distorts to the image to give it a 3-dimensional, sphere-like appearance. You'll see what I mean as soon as I can get the .psd hosted.

And finally, I wasn't really trying to make any specific planet in the 1024 by 768 image, just a scene with a few planets and a nebula as a backdrop. This will be emphasized in the newer version with the most prominant planet having rings.

[finaldesign1405241487 0]

yes, I saw that tutorial somewhere before... it's cool, pretty cool, I really could not believe that it's possible to make that good looking planets in photoshop... well, overall nice job!