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New Earth

Description: With just a few short and easy techniques, i'll show you how to create your own new planet earth.

	Start a new document 600x600. Set the foreground and background to Blue and White. Then Go to Filter->Render->Clouds
	Then go to Filter->Sketch->Note Paper. Image Balance: 35 Graininess: 0 Relief: 25 You can play around with the image balance to get the shapes of your continents.
	Use the circular marquee tool and make a round selection as big as you can on the image. Hold down shift while making the selection ensures you get a perfect circle.
	Then go to Filter->Distort->Spherize Amount: 100% Then Edit->Copy
	Then CTRL+N to create a new document. The newly created document size should be left as is because photoshop will use the size of the copied image, else, just create a new document about 650x650. Then in the new document, go to Edit->Paste to paste the image onto the new document. You should now have a globe on white background. Add a 1 pixel stroke to the image. If you want to learn how to create stars, See the SIMPLE STARS tutorial
A little bit of modification, I came up with this. DOWNLOAD PSD FILE To see the extras I did.

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stef | Apr/21/09 22:23

dude its mux easier if u just press shift+ctrl+I an then Delete this way u dnt have 2 copy the whole thing to a new document etc.... peace

Adam | Mar/10/09 07:34

I think this tutorial could be improvised, Add a layer of green and a nother layer of dark brown / light brown, distort them and then use the above to go over as a semi transparant layer deleting around the continents. Then add a layer of clouds and make it into a spherical look

[HG]Admiral | Oct/2/08 14:46

By the way, nice tutorial. ^.^

[HG]Admiral | Oct/2/08 14:14

I found that using a green and blue background before the clouds effect is more realistic...
You should also use a 50% spherize instead of a 100%; this is also more realistic...
Also, use the the brush tool with the following settings:
Size: 300
Type: Airbrush
Color: Black

And brush from about 8' to 2' o'clock for a nice shade effect.
Put it on a plain black background with a size of about 650 and use the following settings for an atmosphere:
Duplicate the planet layer, and then right click anywhere on the image and select "Blending options".
From here enable the Inner Glow and Outter Glow options, and then select Outter Glow.
Set the color to a bluish-whitish, and the opacity to about 50%.
Set it to linear dodge, too.
Do the same for the inner glow.
Now link and merge your atmosphere and planet layers.
Once that is done, use the eraser tool on about the 3-5' o'clock posistion to remove any white lines that might have formed.

Im sorry about the horrible grammar and the lack of spelling inguinity, but I am kind of tired at the moment.

jp | Jul/15/08 23:55

very nice.

noor salah | Jul/12/08 06:24

wow

its so easy !

Kri | Jan/28/08 08:54

nice (:

Imblothigulan | Jan/3/08 05:31

good. Very handy, very quick!!!

teddy bea | Oct/3/07 13:12

How can I add the 1 pixel stroke to the image? forgive me please, I'm a noob lol. Good tutorial otherwise!

jacinta | Jun/1/07 03:24

does anybody knows where I can get an animated earth (rotating)

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