Hey... I made a planet!

[Badger]

I just finished this, my first full color piece of artwork in PS, though it was done thru a tutorial in Advanced Photoshop Mag, I was rather proud that it looks like I can actually draw... Anyway... sorry its not a map guys... but I had to share.. even though it pales in comparison to the actual tutorial one the artist did... I was just happy I made it through with something that actually resembled a working piece of art....

*edit: this is 35% the size of the original, just an FYI for those interested...

[pyrandon]

Hey--that looks very cool! I saw that tutorial & thought it was a neat idea--and now I see it was a VERY neat idea!!! Good work!

[AidyBaby]

I've done loads of planets too. Here's one I did in PS from scatch. I now have the flaming pear stuff and generally just use that.

Yours looks fantastic.

[Darth_Gimp]

Here are some of the space things I've done from scratch in Gimp. A couple include a Star Wars model rendered in Blender though... LINK.

[Badger]

Very nice Aidy and Darth... ya'lls make mine look pale and weak in comparison... Guess its back to the practicing board for me

[Redrobes]

This ought to be in the reference section I guess but... This :-

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

is the popular "Astro Image of the Day" which is a large selection of the best of NASA's images including lots of planets, nebula etc. All NASA pics (without peoples faces) are deemed free to use.

A few matted clips of these can make some 'stellar' space scenes.

Edit -- Actually, todays (Mar 18 200 is a bit of a doozy !

[Darth_Gimp]

Very nice Aidy and Darth... ya'lls make mine look pale and weak in comparison... Guess its back to the practicing board for me

Please don't feel that way. I've been doing space scenes for a while now. Some tuts you might enjoy are over on:

http://www.solarvoyager.com/tutorials.asp

and

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/t..._a_planet.html

[jabascus]

Here are some of the space things I've done from scratch in Gimp. A couple include a Star Wars model rendered in Blender though... LINK.

I'm developing a LARP and was wondering what he chances are that I can use that picture in the main picture for the webpage? Also, which programs did use to make it?

[someguy]

Here are some of the space things I've done from scratch in Gimp. A couple include a Star Wars model rendered in Blender though... LINK.

How easy is blender to use? And where can i get it?

[Steel General]

How easy is blender to use? And where can i get it?

Not sure how easy it is to use, having never used it myself but here's the URL to the homepage; http://www.blender.org/