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A new space scene I just finished. I have just learned how to make nebulas, so I wanted to try something big.
Please tell me what you think, critisicm is very welcome, but I don't want comments on how shitty it is or something like that. I apologize to Deep Blue, I overreacted. :(

Anyways, this nebula was damn fun to make, I will definately use nebulas more, since I think they are so beautiful. :)

http://img227.echo.cx/img227/6173/rymd1medram0nf.jpg

the mountain is out of place, and altho the nebulas are cool theres too many and they too bright, planet is good :) but rings are very faint.

how do yuo make those nebulas?

(i need cloud like things for a piece im doing.. but they gota look like explosions)

if you used a tut, just link me

anyway its good, i like :)

Oh yeah, dats some hot shit there, buddy

oh adn just outa interest, waht you make mountain in, or is it a stock?

DB: Yeah, the mountain is a bit dodgy. But I tried several pics for the ground, but no one fit the rest, so I kept this.
The nebulas are very bright at some places due to sunlight from behind. I added some rays too.

Some nebula tutorials:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4474744/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/15420584/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/15593959/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4758950/

EDIT: The mountain is a stock, thanks for reminding me to give a link on my DA. :)

i just wondered about mountain cause im sure terragen could do that :)

thanks for nebulae tuts

Yeah, Terragen could probably do that too. I couldn't though. ;P Never tried Terragen, but I guess I will have to learn it later on.

you could learn it now, we could help each other - i started yesterday, and if you wana do decent space scenes you gota do.. TerraSpace scenes - you take a terragen redner, add a planet and a couple of nebulae - et voila

(its what alyn does)

Yeah, Alyn is a god with Terragen. :P
I have downloaded it now. I won't try it right now though, I need to do some work for school. ;P

that looks awesome man, i think the mountain is fine where it is and it sets this piece apart from all the other space scenes out there. cool perspective like you're on one planet looking out into space. although i can tell you just learned how to do nebulas, the whole top portion of the scene is covered with them! a little too much in my opinion, but great work.

it's nice, but how the heck do you add rings to a planet?

Thanks. :) I know I overdid the nebula thing a little. >.O

DragonsRage: I could write a tutorial.

i could tell him now ;)

take the texture you use for the texture of planet, use twirl filter loads till it looks like a plate on a black bg, then burn/erase middle, then put on top of planet, free transform to get it position you want/bigger/smaller then erase bits that cover planet

(this is on your planet doc btw, just hide the layers)

That's not really how I do it. I do like this:

New document, any size, I use 600x600 px, fill background with black.
New layer, reset default colors (D) and add clouds. Add a filter twirl with angle 999 three times so it really twirls. xP
Take a 200 px soft eraser and erase the parts you don't want (the centre and the sides). Go to free transform, hold down Alt and drag the upper or the lower edge towards the middle untill you get the "angle" you want.
Add some noise (15%), monochrome, gaussian. Copy this layer and paste into your planet document. Set the blending mode to Screen to remove the black pixels.
Locate the center of your planet and let it also be the center of the ring. Remove the part that shouild be behind you planet.
Add some color with color balance (CTRL+B) and play with the opacity.

That's how I do it. :)

EDIT: Double post. :(

yeah thats basically the same, except i forgot about screen

this is what i got with my way:

http://pix7.com/0505/3719o_hysteria.jpg