Fury of serenity by Henry Pashkov

We start with idea as always. Have to make up amental image first to implement in 3D reality. Once I saw a picture in theinternet. I forgot the content but color gamut of the picture stuck in my mind.Long time after that dreams were running away from me cause of this image. AndI decided to play a little with these colors. Most of you have already seen theresult. And someone asked me to explain how I achieved such result in details.That's how this tutorial appeared.

Let's start:

1. Start Photoshop. First of allcreate big resolution image (for example, 3600Х2400). I use high resolution from the beginningin case if the image would be printed. Small image will be blurry if printed. The second reason to create high resolution imagesis the possibility to improve quality of the final image. Decreasing image sizeto 1200Х960 on post processingremoves all hard edges and other sharp transitions on the image.

Creating starry sky:

2. Create new set and name it “Stars”.Create several layers filled with the black color in the set. Then apply “Noise”filter (Mono) to each layer consequently. We've got several layers full ofwhite dots. Increase 10% and 20% the second and the third layers accordinglyand set “Screen” Blending options to both. You should receive the following celestialmap image that you can merge into a single layer:

Note: Eventually you can use an existing photo ofthe night sky. For example, from NASA site (http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasa_gen/index.html or  http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html ).

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2. So as we have got the starry sky let's startwith a nebula.

3. The process of nebula creation is describedin Tutorial 1: “Nebula For Half An Hour”. So we are not going to settle on itagain. Also you have your own fantasy to help you experimenting on this issue.

4. Assuming that you have already finished yournebula let's start with a planet:

Take an arbitrary planet render, for example,from Tutorial 2 “Creating A New World”. Best of all save rendering image astiff or psd to have alpha channel mask created automatically.

Or you can use Tutorial “Modelling a planet” recently publishedof www.3dm3.com to create the other kind ofa planet.

Follow the image given below to place the planet.You can stretch the image of the planet to accentuatethe perspective effect if you wish. But it's not necessary.

Thus you should have your image close to thefollowing with the planet in front and the nebula on the background: