Spacescene II

[Pleymo]

Haven't got a name for it yet...
And I'm very happy with the final result
I know its not that good...but its only my second piece of spaceart,
Some GFXVoid users have seen another version, but after a few weeks I
decided to change and finish the pic. I hope you like it.


Pleymo



[i]Spacescene II

[Samuel]

Quality is a bit low. I like the idea. Planets need some more work, and the starscape is kinda unrealistic.

[Daemon_]

Quality is low, stars look rather fake, they could do with some work but other than that it isnt that bad. What is the idea behind it?

[Pleymo]

The only thing with low qual..is the background. It was just a quick background. And the idea...just a cool spacescene.

[Samuel]

Actualy the planets are bit low quality too. Lol.

I like the scene just needs to be more crisp.

[Deadloader]

it's ok, not much going on here, but i can imagine it took you long... (nice planet ) but the lens flare cuts off at the top and also i'm just not keen on the colours

[Ryzee]

I like the little planet but I wouldn't keep the ring... I believe everything else could say has already been mentioned...

[MartinBabies]

Nice idea!
There are som things that I'd correct though. First, the lens flare is cut off at the top, like Deadloader said. And now for a little lesson about lens flares! :P Do not use the lens flare you did in this pic. Use the second one (I can't remember what it's called, don's have PS on this computer). The first one creates much more ugly spots everywhere that are just hard to get rid of. Anyways, when you use it, do the following:

1. New layyaa!!
2. Select the eliptical (or wtf it's called.. the circle thing) marquee tool.
3. Make a selection, as big as you want it.
4. Fill it with black.
5. Add a lens flare (not the one you used for this pic).
And now for the important stuff!
6. Keep the selection and go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and blur it quite alot with the "spin" blur (I hope you get the idea :P).
7. If you think it's needed, use the zoom blur too.
8. Deselect! Set the layer's blending mode to Screen or Linear dodge. Note that the two blending modes will have different effects on the layer.
9. Open up levels and pull the gray arrow to the right till you get rid of the ugly edge of the lens flare.
10. Done! :P Now you can play with the color of it with Hue/Saturation of Colour Balance or whatever.

If you look at my space scenes, you see that I have different sizes on stars. There are the background stars and there are bigger stars. All the bigger stars are made this way!

Anyways, back to the critisicm! >;D
The second planet is too big. It's so close, so it should be a moon, but it's way too big to be a moon since it would just crash into the bigger planet. I would keep the rings, but scale it down pretty much.

The last thing I want to complain about (:P) is that I think the lens flare is positioned too low. It looks like the planet is trying to swallow it or something.

Though it's not the most original of ideas, I like it. The planets are looking good, especially the small one which is looking VERY good! Maybe you should redo the starfield and make a better one. But anyways, good job. Keep 'em coming!