Photoshop Tutorial

Planet tutorial

In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make a planet. Not any particular planet we know of :) .

- Start a new document 500x500 fill the background with black.
- Create a new layer.
- Use the Elliptical marquee tool and draw a circle selection. Hold down SHIFT while you are doing this so you get a perfect circle

- Fill the selection with #978B57 (DO NOT deselect yet).
- Then go to Layer » Layer Style » Bevel Emboss

- Set your foreground color to #BEB074 and background to #736942

- Create a NEW LAYER then go to Filter » Render » Clouds

Then go to Filter » Sharpen » Unsharp Mask

- Duplicate this layer (CTRL+J or drag the layer into the "new Layer" button).
- Rotate the new layer by 90CW. Edit » Transform » Rotate 90CW
- Set the Blending mode to "Overlay"

Now Duplicate that last layer you just duplicated, rotate 90CW, and set blending mode to Overlay (basicly a repeat of the above step).

Now Merge the 3 layer together (Layer 2, Layer 3, Layer 3 copy from above image). To do this, link the 3 layers together by clicking on the empty box to the right of the layer's thumbnail, then press CTRL+E

Now go to Filter » Render » Lighting Effects. Color Used: #88725D
Note: For this lighting effect, you can give your planet more texture/mountainous effect by raising the "Height" value towards "Mountainous". The height the value, the rockier your planet will look.

Set this layer blending mode to overlay, and turn the opacity down to 80%

Now press CTRL+E to merge the top layer and the bottom layer (not background) together.

Now CTRL+CLICK the planet layer to load the selection.

Now go to Filter » Distort » Spherize, set amount to 100%, mode: normal
Then do it again, Filter » Distort » Spherize, this time, set amount: 50%, mode: normal

Now Duplicate the planet layer, then apply this filter to it: Filter » Sharpen » Unsharp Mask
Then set this layer's blending mode to "Soft Light", and tune the opacity down to 70%

Press CTRL+E to merge the 2 layers again. Now you have a planet. Now lets add some glow/atmosphere to it.

Apply the following drop shadow and inner shadow.

After resizing, here is mine.

If you want to learn how to create stars, See the SIMPLE STARS tutorial

Another one. with some minor adjustments in the light effects step and changed the color of the dropshadow and innershadow step.

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User Comments

rupali Jul/01/2010 02:27excellent tutorial.

abrar shaikh Jan/19/2010 21:15very nice and helpful

Bob Mar/6/09 02:42[Edit] BELOW you can see some very random comments. Enjoy.

Bob Mar/6/09 02:41Above you can see some incredibly random comments. Enjoy.

lewis Sep/29/08 04:09weres the drop shadow tool

sushil Aug/1/08 20:41its really great dude ........... very easy to learn

Lucile Jul/21/08 22:08very easy, and great for beginners, just like me! :) thanks a lot!

XEnohj Jun/17/08 13:23I recomend That you Have a Sex with your girlfriend at that planet

Danielle May/20/08 07:48é bem difícil, mas muito interessante... parabéns

Sathiyaseelan May/14/08 20:14Nice Tutorial

CA Mar/26/08 16:45That looks totally terrible.

Barlo Mar/12/08 00:38Another way to make the stars is making a new layer go : Gradient tool -> Set forground (white) to transparent -> click Radial gradient -> press middle then out to the edges -> make layer dissovle, you get alot of dots -> Opacity down to 1-3% Delete unwanted starts ^^

Pete Nov/21/07 02:01Nice

CORINA VELA Nov/13/07 07:02WHAT THE PUK IS THAT

lucky girl Nov/7/07 11:57gool~!! you best ~!! moon is wonderfull~!

ridley Oct/24/07 07:27sphynxylynxy are you a redneck???

sphynxylynxy Aug/13/07 06:49Who cares if this tut is for newbies!! Ya gotta learn somewhere sometime an all those who think they're so smart just gotta grin and bear it.

Jean Davidson Jun/2/07 16:20thanks for all tutoriaux

clear865425 May/30/07 18:01verry good

RedStorm May/14/07 05:49Great Tut, I played with a few of the settings and came up with some neat results.

Rahma May/8/07 00:48@Fernis: What's a "delfin"? /smack, it's a decent guide for beginners, and noone's saying you gotta draw Van Gogh art with photoshop.

Forsaken-PL Apr/16/07 05:06This tut is 4 noobies...

Nimesh P Chrisrian Apr/5/07 16:45wow, hmmmmmmm, Ooooooo, good

Claus S Nielsen Mar/8/07 03:31Had allot of fun making this tut, defo nice work!

Ash Feb/27/07 23:28Great Job.. helped out a lot

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