Shuttle Launch...

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Stock used:

[Javadog]

Wow this looks really good! The text is blended perfectly, great blending skills if you didnt show the stocks then i would have thought it was a complete picture already. A very settle sig maybe try to do 1 risk like.... something bright somewhere xD
overall love it

[Bloodtears]

WOw, how'd you do that fire under it?

Imo I'd rotate the ship so the bottom would be facing down

schweet colors, borders suck, tho ;D

[Studhorse]

Nice dude, workin with stock photos now eh?
a new trend...posting the renders/stocks used... I like it.

I agree with Bloodtears, maybe rotate the shuttle some.

really nice job though, you're gonna start gettin tut demands

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Here are two new veersions:

[Studhorse]

yup, the 1st 1.

[Daemon]

I Like it gret and the zoom filter works grat as does the fly explode kinda thing, the one you have in your curretn is the best Great job on this

[jorrne]

I like the second one the best. It's really nice. The explosion fire thing is really well made. The other effects around it are also nice. The focal point stands out nicely although it could be a little sharper.

[VoodooGypsy]

I don't want to be all flippy dippy on details.
But when the shuttle is upside down it doesn't fit with the background. The sun is shining on the left of the planet but also shining on the right of the shuttle.
A very small detail, but whatever lol.
Therefore, I'm liking the second one with the shuttle right side up.
Good job on getting rid of the open hatches from the original stock.
How did you make the fire? I'm intrigued.

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You are right about lighting. i realized that after the fact and I tried to darken that side of the planet best I could. Tried the best i could

in terms of the fire I found a nice explosion picture with a good black backdrop and placed it in sig at linear dodge I believe. Erased what looked bad and around focal and resized. then I used a hard brush at about 9 pix and placed white and black dots on top of the explosion stock. then I smudged them toghether to get that smoke effect. erased over focal. The trail is also a stock photo I found and also smudged a bit.

I used a hard brush for the smudging with all shape dynamics set to zero, scattering set to 229 and jitter at about 90. strength jitter at 100. this smudges the white and black dots well into a nice smokey look. I also sharpened this smoke to bring it out. Came out pretty good on top of the explosion stock.