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Lost Galaxy-First Attempt

Ruu_Old · 2005-06-05 18:18:50

Heres my first attempt at some photo shopping after a lot of fooling around with it :) just some strange galaxy typed wallpaper. Just a note that its my first attempt. Comments anyone? thanks

05-06-2005 7:18pm

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Heres my first attempt at some photo shopping after a lot of fooling around with it just some strange galaxy typed wallpaper. Just a note that its my first attempt. Comments anyone? thanks

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#2 05-06-2005 7:28pm

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Psychedelic!

Check out this great tutorial if you want to do more.

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#3 05-06-2005 7:59pm

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excellent thanks Gordon

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#4 05-06-2005 9:25pm

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The BG is ok but the planets look out of place. The colours are too sharp and don't blend. Other than that, good job!

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#5 05-06-2005 9:34pm

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thanks for the comments i wanted to make the planets look more...3D. I used the "Spherize" tool. I'll look through that tutorial and try again later.

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#6 05-06-2005 9:41pm

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Looks great, theplanet detail is awesome , maybe the planets could be given an outer glow if you have them on a seperate layer or use the soften tool.

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#7 05-06-2005 9:43pm

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mmhm i did think of that after i done all the other stuff i could put a lens flare behind the planet which would be on another layer yes. i did that on another project and it looked pretty well. i will do that later and see how it turns out.

EDIT: I just put some glow on the corners of each planet and they dont look so flat anymore..will try the lens flare later on and repost it sometime after that.

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#8 06-06-2005 3:43pm

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ok heres the 2nd version, considerable difference its fair to say

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#9 06-06-2005 3:54pm

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The spotlight is overused.

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#10 07-06-2005 2:37am

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#11 07-06-2005 3:50pm

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not bad for the boards.ie idiot only kidding, fantastic detail on the planet and not too much glow either, i think you got everything close to spot on. Must post my new one later on.

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#12 07-06-2005 4:29pm

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well, infact i modelled the globe, I 3d rendered it. I didn't use photoshop for it all...
Thanks tho..

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#13 07-06-2005 9:15pm

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Shrimp wrote:

well, infact i modelled the globe, I 3d rendered it. I didn't use photoshop for it all...
Thanks tho..

did you model the globe or just model a sphere and apply a texture map?

What app?

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#14 07-06-2005 9:47pm

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I dont know what shrimp used but the image is very possible using Blender 3d and bump mapping is built in and can be done with the built in textures. Blander is very powerful tool , Ill post an example in a mo.

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#15 08-06-2005 12:58am

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I actually modelled the landscape, not a texture map, i just chose different colour shades, etc..

As for the app, I used terragen and modelled the landscape.

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#16 08-06-2005 9:27am

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terragen is the ****. lovely landscapes in 10 seconds.

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#17 08-06-2005 4:24pm

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yeah, but as you can see, this is not your typical terragen, like normally it's just landscapes. While this i messed with the sky, making it small so that it only came up about as much as the horizon.

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#18 12-06-2005 4:09am

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heres my latest one i done a few days ago,

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#19 12-06-2005 9:56am

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Looks much better than the previous ones

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#20 12-06-2005 9:02pm

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thanks thats what its all about improvement.

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