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Vector Style Earth


Creating a New Document

Were going to start off with a canvas size of 600 x 600 pixels for the purpose of this tutorial, feel free to make your canvas much bigger if you require the image in a bigger size, the results should be the same.

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The Background

For the background il be using something relivantly simple, fill your background layer with a dark blue color the color code i used is #081122. Were now going to add some minor noise, go to "filter > noise > add noise", use the settings below.

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You should have something like this.

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Creating The Globe

Select the circle tool or the elliptical marquee tool and create a circle covering most of the canvas. TIP: Holding the shift key whilst dragging will ensure the circle is the right aspect ratio.

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Dont fill your circle just yet, first select the gradient tool with a radial gradient. Set your foreground color to #439abf and your background color to #033e76, drag the radial gradient from the top right corner of the circle down diagonally towards the bottom left.

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You should have something like this.

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Now add these layer styles to your globe.

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You should now have something like this.

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Creating The Islands

Select the pen tool and randomly create the points that make up your first of two islands.

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Once you've closed your last anchor point right click inside the island with the pen tool and go to "fill path".

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You should have something like this.

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We now need to cut into the island so it wraps inside our globe. Click your globe layer whilst holding down the Ctrl key. This should load a selection around your globe, select your island layer while the selection is active. Now go to "select > inverse" and hit the delete key.

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Now add these layer styles to your top island.

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You should have something like this.

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Using the pen tool once again create another island inside the island you just created, fill the inner island with the color #f5b47a.

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Creating The Second Island

Using the same methods listed above and create another island somewhere on your globe. When adding the island layer styles leave off the drop shadow.

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Adding Smaller Islands

Using the pen tool create some smaller islands dotted around the globe. The islands at the top fill with a darker shade of blue, the small islands at the bottom fill with a lighter shade of blue. Finally set the small islands layer opacity to about 20%.

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Creating The Globe Shines

Select your globe layer whilst holding down the Ctrl key, this should load a selection around your globe. Create a new layer above everything and fill the selection with the color white.

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Using the elliptical marquee tool make a selection like the image below.

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Once you've made the selection hit the delete key. Now set the layers opacity to 2%.

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Repeat the steps above a couple of times, ive done it 4 times, 2 shines at the bottom and 2 at the top.

The Finished Result

The finished result looks something like this.

Vector Style Earth Tutorial: Final Result

Many thanks for reading.



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