Fury of serenity by Henry Pashkov
9. The next step is to create a satelliteplanet behind the main planet. I used Tutorial 2 “Creating A New World” again, becauseI wanted to make the planet more realistic in this case. I moved created satelliteplanet layer into a new “Moon” layer set.
Got the following image as a result:
10. If you keep close to my sequence of hierarchycreation you would have the next layer set configuration in the Layers window:
And your picture issomething like that:
It looks like everything is good but I'm still notsatisfied because colors of resulting image differ from the color gamut Iintended to create.
11. Now is the turn of special effects. Wepress the magic button:
And create the layer of Hue\Saturations withthe followings parameters:
Remark 1:
Did you noticed that applying theseeffects you get a result different from mine? This is because you apply it toall the picture but applying to planet layer only needed.
Go to Channels book-mark. Copy the Blue channel and apply Image\Adjustments and Brightness\Contrastcommands to receive contrast picture that have a strong division between planetand space regions.
Select the area of planet using Ctrl + «Left MouseButton» (click this combination over the resulting channel). Go to Layersbook-mark and cut required area from the Hue\Saturations adjacent layer. Now theeffect applies only to the planet area as we planned to. Obviously delete our assistantchannel from the Channel book-mark list.
After all this we have the next image as aresult:
Looks better but color saturation is too low:
12. We press the magic button again:
