#Make a tiny planet photoshop how to

Just for good measure, repeat this action for an additional 50%. Go to Filter > Distort > Sphereize, set it to 100%, and click OK. Now we’re going to help our sphere a little via Photoshop’s sphereize filter. (we’ve still got our marquee selecting the circle of our planet… don’t deselect the planet quite yet). Again, brush from 8 to 2 o’clock only, leave the dark area dark, as it’s the shadow on our planet. Repeat the brush motions that we used to define our basic sphere, only this time we’re adiding texture to the planet. Select the pattern we just made from the menu of available patterns. The window for the brush settings looks like so… You need to set the texture of your brush to the planet texture for the next step. This done, grab your trusty brush tool again (same exact settings as before, and go up to the brushes tab at the top of your screen in Adobe PS. Open it up and go to Edit > Define Pattern. Basically, we’ve just established the main “sphere” of our planet.Īlrighty, time to grab that planet texture I had you download. You want the result to look like the image to the left of this text. Start brushing color (we’ll use hexadecimal value 664029) from about 8 o’clock to 2 o’clock, working towards the upper left corner.

We’re going to pretend our light source is coming from the upper left (this is arbitrary). Set the opacity of the brush to 30% and the mode to Linear Grab the Airbrush Soft Round 300 (we need a big, fuzzy brush). Make a new layer and, using the circle marquee select a circle about 2/3 the size of the root image.įill it black, and leave the marquee active (do not deselect). Start with a plain black image, 500×500 pixels.

#Make a tiny planet photoshop how to

To complete this tutorial and match what I’m showing you in the sample images, you’ll need this image for a texture, so save it in a safe spot, we’ll get to it in a moment.Ī thank you to Kyle Nervik of, who helped me figure out how to best relate my methods to a general audience by being my development guinea pig (sitting on AIM for over an hour, listening to me argue with myself, and offering suggestions). We’re working small here, so keep in mind that the larger you work, the harder the planet will be to create (just a bit more work as size increases). This tutorial should step you through making a simple, yet realistic-looking planet using Adobe Photoshop 7, and ONLY Adobe Photoshop 7.