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Creating a Planet Explosion


Make a new document, 1000x1000 pixels, black background.

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Now add a mud texture in your document, like mine or close.

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Hit CTRL+I (Command+I on Macintosh) to inverse the colors. You'll see later that this will add more realism to the effect.

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Using the elliptical marquee tool, draw a perfect circular selection, Inverse selection and delete the unwanted texture. Your image should look like the example below:

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Go to Filter>Distort>Spherize and choose a value of 100%. Go again and reapply the filter, but this time with a value of 50%. Your image should turn into this:

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Go to layer>flatten image. Now you should have only one layer. Deselect and go to Filter->Distort->Polar Coordinates. Options: Polar to Rectangular. Your image should look like this:

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Image->Rotate Canvas->90CW. Apply: Filter->Stylize->Wind Method: Wind. Direction: From the right. Hit CTRL+F to reapply.

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Go to: Image->Rotate Canvas->90CCW. Finally, apply Filter->Distort->Polar Coordinates. Options: Rectangular to Polar.

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There you go, now all you do is just play around with colors, by either using Image>Hue and Saturation, or Image> Color Balance. I use color balance in the image below.

Creating a Planet Explosion Tutorial: Final Result



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